| name | obsidian-daily |
| description | Manages Obsidian Daily Notes via the official Obsidian CLI. Creates and opens daily notes, appends entries (journals, logs, tasks, links), reads daily notes and vault files, searches vault content, and handles relative dates like "yesterday", "last Friday", and "3 days ago". Requires Obsidian 1.12+ with Command line interface enabled. |
| metadata | {"author":"github.com/bastos","version":"2.0"} |
Obsidian Daily Notes
Interact with Obsidian Daily Notes through the official obsidian command: create
or open today's note, append entries, read notes, and search vault content.
Setup
Check that the official CLI is available:
obsidian version
If the command is unavailable, ask the user to enable Obsidian's CLI:
- Install or update to Obsidian 1.12 or newer.
- Open Settings > General.
- Enable Command line interface and follow the registration prompt.
Target a vault explicitly when needed by placing vault=<name-or-id> before the
command:
obsidian vault="Work" daily
Obsidian Daily Notes plugin defaults:
- Date format:
YYYY-MM-DD
- New file location: Vault root
- Template file location: (none)
Date Handling
Get current date:
date +%Y-%m-%d
Cross-platform relative dates (GNU first, BSD fallback):
| Reference | Command |
|---|
| Today | date +%Y-%m-%d |
| Yesterday | date -d yesterday +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d |
| Last Friday | date -d "last friday" +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -v-1w -v+fri +%Y-%m-%d |
| 3 days ago | date -d "3 days ago" +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -v-3d +%Y-%m-%d |
| Next Monday | date -d "next monday" +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -v+monday +%Y-%m-%d |
Commands
Open/Create Today's Note
obsidian daily
Opens today's daily note in Obsidian, creating it from template if it doesn't exist.
Append Entry
obsidian daily:append content="ENTRY_TEXT"
Append without adding a newline:
obsidian daily:append content="ENTRY_TEXT" inline
Read Note
Today:
obsidian daily:read
Specific date, using the vault's configured daily-note folder and date format:
obsidian read path="Daily Notes/2025-01-10.md"
Relative date (yesterday):
obsidian read path="Daily Notes/$(date -d yesterday +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d).md"
Search Content
obsidian search query="TERM"
Search Notes
Machine-readable search:
obsidian search query="TERM" format=json
Specific Vault
Put vault="NAME" before the command:
obsidian vault="Work" read path="Daily Notes/2025-01-10.md"
Example Output
- Went to the doctor
- [ ] Buy groceries
- https://github.com/anthropics/skills
- 15:45 This is a log line
Use Cases
Journal entry:
obsidian daily:append content="- Went to the doctor"
Task:
obsidian daily:append content="- [ ] Buy groceries"
Link:
obsidian daily:append content="- https://github.com/anthropics/skills"
Timestamped log:
obsidian daily:append content="- $(date +%H:%M) This is a log line"
Read last Friday:
obsidian read path="Daily Notes/$(date -d 'last friday' +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -v-1w -v+fri +%Y-%m-%d).md"
Search for "meeting":
obsidian search query="meeting"
