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I used Obsidian's Daily Note Core Plugin in conjunction with the Templater Community Plugin. It creates a new markdown file in .../DailyLog/YYYY/MM/DD.md using
by amflare 4y ago
I used Obsidian's Daily Note Core Plugin in conjunction with the Templater Community Plugin. It creates a new markdown file in .../DailyLog/YYYY/MM/DD.md using a template that automatically adds some assorted frontmatter (like current company name or project) and a full date (Thursday, October 27th, 2022) as the H1 header. Then I just use the file to keep random notes or as a scratch pad. I don't enforce any organization, so sometimes it's just a SQL query that I had to run 35 times that day, sometimes it's a todo list, and other times is a full narrative log of my day and the issues I was running into.
I used to do this in Sublime, which was fine, but Obsidian let me automate the date and frontmatter stuff, which made my life marginally easier. The point though, is that Obsidian is not something I'm locked into, which is nice.
- dr_kiszonka 4y agoThanks for responding! I am curious about splitting your log into per day files. How would you go about finding a specific SQL query that you used last month, but don't remember the exact day? Is there a way in Obsidian to combine all days into a single view? Or would you search for files with SQL queries (e.g., notes with both "select" and "from")?
- mcluck 4y agoI use a one-file-per-day system in VS Code and I do that by doing global search with file filtering. So I might search for FROM table_name and only match in files like dailies/2022-09-*
- personalidea 4y agoObsidian works with what is called a vault, i.e. a project folder. You can then search for text across all the notes in a vault. No need to remember the date. In addition to that, you can work with hash tags inside the notes and then filter files based on tags, e.g. #sql-query or so.