- Let's you navigate upwards, e.g. from days to weeks, months, quarters and years etc.
- Includes downwards navigation, i.e. going from year to quarter or month to week to day
- Sideways navigation brings you quickly from Monday to the previous Sunday or from September to August or October
- If a note does not exist yet, it will be created with the correct template when you click on the link
- Works with the Calendar plugin without any extra configuration
- Reads all settings such as patterns dynamically from your settings, so you don't have to adapt the templates to customize the note format, for example (see step 4 below)
- Looks great!
First, you need two plugins: Periodic Notes and Templater.
Then:
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Copy the
templatesdirectory into your vault and configure Templater to usetemplatesas theTemplate folder location. Alternatively, copy the individual templates into your existing template folder. -
Enable
Trigger Templater on new file creationin the Templater settings -
Configure
templates/filename-dispatch.mdas a folder template for/in Templater
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(Optionally,) customize your Periodic Notes template formats. If you don't, the templates will use the default values. If you use a structure that puts your notes in subdirectories such as
- daily:
[journal]/Y/MM/Y-MM-DD - weekly:
[journal]/GGGG/MM/GGGG-[W]WW - monthly:
[journal]/Y/Y-MM - quarterly:
[journal]/Y/Y-[Q]Q - yearly:
[journal]/Y
keep in mind that the filenames should be unique, not just the whole path. So the daily format [journal]/Y/MM/DD would be invalid, because the 2nd of February and March would both be saved in 02.md, which makes linking much more of a hassle.
The initial idea for a navigation bar as well as the use of filename dispatching came from ljavuras' obsidian-power-tools. The design is inspired by screenshots posted to reddit by u/tricky-vixen.