Daily Notes

Start each morning on a page that’s already waiting for you: yesterday’s unchecked todos copied in, your standup template in place, and every checkbox tracked as a Task in the Calendar.

A Daily Note is a built-in typed Object tied to one calendar day. Each day has at most one Daily Note, so opening a day again always returns the same Object instead of creating a duplicate.

Open today’s Daily Note

Use any of these:

• Choose Today next to Calendar in the sidebar.
• Press Ctrl+Shift+D, or run Open today from the command palette.
• Choose the Daily Note card on a day in the Calendar.

If the day has no note yet, Lar creates it and opens it.

In the Calendar, a day with a note shows a preview of its body. A day without one shows Start the daily note in Agenda view, or ＋ Daily Note in Week view. Previews are read-only; select one to edit the note.

Start a Daily Note from a template

1. In the Calendar’s Agenda view, open the ⋯ menu in the day’s header.
2. Choose Empty Note, pick one of your Daily Note templates, or choose New Template to create one.

Lar creates or opens that day’s note with the template applied. A template can prefill typed properties and body blocks, such as a “Top three” list and a “Notes” heading.

To manage templates, open the Daily Note Object Type settings and choose Templates. See Templates.

Create one automatically each day

In the desktop app, Lar creates today’s Daily Note for you when you launch it and again when the day changes while it’s running. It shows a notification when it does. This is on by default; to change it, open Settings → Daily notes and toggle Create a daily note each day.

To choose what automatic notes start from, set Default template for auto-created notes to a Daily Note template or Empty Note. This setting applies only to automatic creation. It is separate from the Type’s own default template, so notes you create by hand can use a different template, or none.

Carry unchecked todos forward

Turn on Carry over unchecked todos in Settings → Daily notes. When Lar creates a new Daily Note, it copies the unchecked todos from your most recent earlier Daily Note into it.

The originals stay where they were, so each day’s note remains an accurate record of what you planned that day.

Turn todos into Tasks

Turn on Link todos to Tasks in Settings → Daily notes. Each todo checkbox in a Daily Note is then mirrored as a linked Task:

• the Task is dated to the note’s day;
• it appears in the Calendar and on the Tasks page;
• checking the todo completes the Task.

Turn this on when your daily checkboxes are real work you want to schedule and track. Leave it off if they are informal jottings.

Carry-over and Task linking are both off until you turn them on.

Daily Notes and “Created on this day”

Creating an Object on a given day doesn’t put it inside that day’s Daily Note. It appears under Created on this day in the Calendar instead. Add a link or embed in the note body when you also want to reference it from the note.

Try it

A simple daily routine:

1. Keep automatic creation on, with a short template.
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+D when you start work.
3. Write in the body, and use todo blocks for actions.
4. Turn on Link todos to Tasks so the actions show up in the Calendar.
5. Turn on Carry over unchecked todos so tomorrow starts with whatever you didn’t finish.

Troubleshooting

The wrong template appears. Automatic notes use Default template for auto-created notes in Settings → Daily notes. Notes you create by hand use the Daily Note Type’s own default template. Check both.

A todo doesn’t appear in Tasks. Confirm that Link todos to Tasks is on and that the block is a todo checkbox, not an ordinary bullet.

No note was created automatically. Automatic creation runs only in the desktop app, while it’s open. Open the day in the Calendar to create the note.

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