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name: daily-note description: Work with Obsidian daily notes. Create today's note if missing, append content to existing note, or read current daily note. Uses Obsidian's periodic notes conventions. Requires Obsidian MCP server.

Daily Note

Create, read, or append to daily notes.

Workflow

Read Today's Note

1. Use obsidian_get_periodic_note({ period: "daily" })
2. Display content or note if missing

Create Today's Note

1. Check if daily note exists
2. Determine path from periodic notes config or CLAUDE.md
3. Create with appropriate template/frontmatter
4. Common path patterns:
   • Planner/YYYY/MM-Month/YYYY-MM-DD.md
   • Daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md
   • Journal/YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD.md

Append to Daily Note

1. Get existing note content
2. Use obsidian_append_content to add new content
3. Respect existing structure (find appropriate section)

MCP Tools Used

Copy// Get today's daily note
obsidian_get_periodic_note({ period: "daily" })

// Get recent daily notes
obsidian_get_recent_periodic_notes({
  period: "daily",
  limit: 5,
  include_content: true
})

// Append content
obsidian_append_content({
  filepath: "Planner/2025/01-January/2025-01-08.md",
  content: "\n## Notes\n- Added item"
})

Daily Note Template

Copy---
created: {date}
type: daily
tags:
  - daily
  - planner
---

# {date}

## Plan
- [ ]

## Notes


## Log

Parameters

• $ARGUMENTS (optional):
  • No args: Read today's note
  • create: Create today's note if missing
  • {content}: Append content to today's note

Example

User: /daily-note

Response: "Today's daily note (Planner/2025/01-January/2025-01-08.md):

---

Plan

• AI Ready Vault brainstorming session
• Review implementation plan

Notes

• Evolved product concept from templates to skills library
• Created project documentation in vault

Log

• 09:00 - Started brainstorming session ---"

User: /daily-note Added meeting notes from standup

Response: "Appended to today's daily note:

Added to ## Notes section: '- Added meeting notes from standup'

File: Planner/2025/01-January/2025-01-08.md"