Obsidian Daily Notes interface

A collection of utility functions for working with dates and daily notes in Obsidian plugins. It reads from the user's Daily Notes settings to provide a consistent interface.

Installation

The best way to use this package is to add it to your dependencies:

# pnpm
pnpm add obsidian-daily-notes-interface

# npm
npm install --save obsidian-daily-notes-interface

# yarn
yarn add obsidian-daily-notes-interface

obsidian is a peer dependency — your plugin should already declare it.

Utilities

createDailyNote

Replicates the Daily Notes plugin in Obsidian but allows creating a note for any day (past or present).

Usage

import { createDailyNote } from 'obsidian-daily-notes-interface';
...
const date = moment();
createDailyNote(date);

Note: if you pass in a past or future date, {{date}} tokens in the user's daily notes template will resolve to the correct date.

appHasDailyNotesPluginLoaded

Check if the user has the Daily Notes plugin enabled.

getAllDailyNotes

Returns a map of all daily notes, keyed off by their dateUID.

getDailyNote

Returns the Daily Note for a given Moment. For performance reasons, this requires passing in the collection of all daily notes.

getDailyNoteSettings

Returns the settings stored in the Daily Notes plugin (format, folder, and template).

getTemplateInfo

Generic utility for reading the contents of a file given it's relative path. This does not apply any transformations.

FAQ

What is a dateUID?

A dateUID uniquely identifies a note, allowing for faster note lookup. It is prefixed by a granularity: day, week, month to allow for additional supporting additional note types (the Calendar plugin uses this for Weekly Notes currently).

Why do I have to pass in the a map of daily notes to getDailyNote()?

This allows you to cache the collection of dailyNotes for a significant speed up.

Sponsors 🙏

A big thank you to everyone that has sponsored this project.

• Carlo Zottman, creator of Actions for Obsidian
• Brian Grohe
• Ben Hong