obsidian-periodic-notes VS nldates-obsidian

Daily Journaling using Periodic Notes and Calendar: These enable me to maintain my daily journaling habit that I had in Evernote and add a visual view using the Canvas plug-in and powerful templates for habit tracking.

Use Periodic Notes plugin, it allows you to create independent journal sets. When I say sets is because you could have one set for your work, health, money, etc. And each set could be compounded by daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly notes. You can set a shortcut to quickly change the current journal, so you can write down ideas that just came to your mind in the corresponding journal.

Check out Obsidian and Periodic Notes plugin to template out your daily notes the way you like it.

You may need to install a Periodic Notes plugin if you aren't already using it for the creation of your weekly notes.

Ever since I discovered periodic notes, I wanted to make yearly, quarterly, and monthly plans. But the calendar plugin only provided quick access to daily and weekly notes.

You may notice also that the event file name that I made uses the file name convention that the [Period Notes](https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-periodic-notes) community plugin uses which can make recurring events/templates a bit easier to manage. But you could also easily use the standard daily note file name convention `YYYY-MM-DD - This Week's Event`, etc. as your standard.

My work has a weekly rhythm (recurring operational meetings, 1:1's, staff meetings, ...) and I find a weekly note (using Periodic Notes) works better for me than daily notes. I also have a note from one meeting about something I want to communicate to someone in another meeting later in the week and find having that context in one place vs in different daily notes is useful.

I've used it so heavily that my DayOne app has basically just turned into a private photo bank. I review them once a week. If Daily Notes gets you fired up, do look into Periodic Notes which adds optional Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly notes.

I use a third-level heading for each meeting/interview/idea/whatever throughout the week, using Natural Language dates to append a timestamp. (Like: ### Sync on FooWidget Status ) Obsidian makes it easy to insert images in notes; I use this a lot. Many of the entries in my weekly notes are a screenshot with a sentence or two (life on zoom makes screenshooting slides/screen-shares natural).

Pro tip: In addition to the period daily notes plugin that other ppl recommended, I also recommend you to use the natural language dates plugin. With that you can simply write @tomorrow or @last Thursday and it'll directly create a link to the corresponding note. Take a look at the gif on the readme above. You just have to configure it to use the same note title date format as configured in daily notes though.

You can use the natural language dates plugin for this. With it installed you can type something like @next monday and it will put in the date link for you.