Daily notes and templates

Daily notes

The daily notes module creates one note per day from a template, in a folder you choose.

1. Press Ctrl + Alt + D (Open today’s daily note). If the note does not exist, Scaffold creates it first.
2. Use Open previous daily note and Open next daily note to step between days.

Settings:

Setting	Default
Folder	Daily
File name format	YYYY-MM-DD
Template	none (an empty note)
Open on startup	off

The format uses these tokens: YYYY year, MM month number, DD day, ddd and dddd short and full weekday name, MMM and MMMM short and full month name. For example YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD files notes into year and month folders.

Templates

A template is an ordinary note inside your templates folder (default Templates). Insert one into the current note with Ctrl + Alt + T (Insert template), or use one as the daily note template.

Variables

Variable	Becomes
{{title}}	The note’s title (its file name).
{{date}}	Today’s date as YYYY-MM-DD.
{{date:FORMAT}}	Today’s date in your format, such as {{date:dddd, MMMM D}}.
{{time}}	The time as HH:mm.
{{time:FORMAT}}	The time in your format (HH, mm, ss).
{{cursor}}	Where the cursor lands after the template is inserted.

Anything else between double braces is left exactly as you wrote it, so a typo never silently deletes text.

Example

---
date: "{{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}"
---
# {{date:dddd, MMMM D, YYYY}}

## Plan
- {{cursor}}

## Notes

Starter templates

Scaffold can install a small set of starter templates into your templates folder (for example a daily note, a meeting note and a project note) so you can see what is possible and edit them freely. They are normal files; once installed they are yours.

See also Properties, which pairs well with templates, and Keyboard shortcuts.