You can see the structure of day notes appearing under "Journal" note - - there's a note for the whole year 2017, under it, you have "12 - December" - which then contains "18 - Monday". This is our "day note" which contains + - there's a note for the whole year 2025, under it, you have "03 - March" + which then contains "09 - Monday". This is our "day note" which contains some text in its content and also has some child notes (some of them are from Task manager).
You can also notice how this day note has promoted attribute "weight" where you can track your daily weight. This data is then used in Weight tracker.
+Week and quarter notes are disabled by default, since it might be too
+ much for some people. To enable them, you need to set #enableWeekNotes and #enableQuarterNotes attributes
+ on the root calendar note, which is identified by #calendarRoot label.
+ Week note is affected by the first week of year option. Be careful when
+ you already have some week notes created, it will not automatically change
+ the existing week notes and might lead to some duplicates.
Trilium provides template functionality, and it could be used together with day notes.
@@ -48,36 +55,69 @@ (identified by#calendarRoot label):
#enableQuarterNotes is set)#enableWeekNotes is set)All of these are relations. When Trilium creates a new note for year or
month or date, it will take a look at the root and attach a corresponding ~template relation
to the newly created role. Using this, you can e.g. create your daily template
with e.g. checkboxes for daily routine etc.
You can customize the title of generated journal notes by defining a #datePattern, #weekPattern, #monthPattern, #quarterPattern and #yearPattern attribute
+ on a root calendar note (identified by #calendarRoot label).
+ The naming pattern replacements follow a level-up compatibility - each
+ level can use replacements from itself and all levels above it. For example, #monthPattern can
+ use month, quarter and year replacements, while #weekPattern can
+ use week, month, quarter and year replacements. But it is not possible
+ to use week replacements in #monthPattern.
It's possible to customize the title of generated date notes by defining
- a #datePattern label on a root calendar note (identified by #calendarRoot label).
- Following are possible values:
#datePattern attribute on a root calendar note (identified
+ by #calendarRoot label). Following are possible values:
{dayInMonthPadded} - {weekDay} day notes are named e.g. "24
- - Monday"{dayInMonthPadded}: {weekDay3} day notes are named e.g. "24:
- Mon"{dayInMonthPadded}: {weekDay2} day notes are named e.g. "24:
- Mo"{isoDate} - {weekDay} day notes are named e.g. "2020-12-24
- - Monday"{isoDate} results in an ISO 8061 formatted date (e.g. "2025-03-09"
+ for March 9, 2025){dateNumber} results in a number like 9 for the
+ 9th day of the month, 11 for the 11th day of the month{dateNumberPadded} results in a number like 09 for
+ the 9th day of the month, 11 for the 11th day of the month{ordinal} is replaced with the ordinal date (e.g. 1st, 2nd,
3rd) etc.{weekDay} results in the full day name (e.g. Monday){weekDay3} is replaced with the first 3 letters of the day,
+ e.g. Mon, Tue, etc.{weekDay2} is replaced with the first 2 letters of the day,
+ e.g. Mo, Tu, etc.The default is {dateNumberPadded} - {weekDay}
+
It is also possible to customize the title of generated week notes through
+ the #weekPattern attribute on the root calendar note. The options
+ are:
{weekNumber} results in a number like 9 for the
+ 9th week of the year, 11 for the 11th week of the year{weekNumberPadded} results in a number like 09 for
+ the 9th week of the year, 11 for the 11th week of the year{shortWeek} results in a short week string like W9 for
+ the 9th week of the year, W11 for the 11th week of the year{shortWeek3} results in a short week string like W09 for
+ the 9th week of the year, W11 for the 11th week of the yearThe default is Week {weekNumber}
+
It is also possible to customize the title of generated month notes through
- the #monthPattern attribute, much like #datePattern.
- The options are:
#monthPattern attribute on the root calendar note. The options
+ are:
{isoMonth} results in an ISO 8061 formatted month (e.g. "2025-03"
for March 2025){monthNumber} results in a number like 9 for September,
+ and 11 for November{monthNumberPadded} results in a number like 09 for
September, and 11 for November{month} results in the full month name (e.g. September or October)The default is {monthNumberPadded} - {month}
It is also possible to customize the title of generated quarter notes
+ through the #quarterPattern attribute on the root calendar note.
+ The options are:
{quarterNumber} results in a number like 1 for
+ the 1st quarter of the year{shortQuarter} results in a short quarter string like Q1 for
+ the 1st quarter of the yearThe default is Quarter {quarterNumber}
+
It is also possible to customize the title of generated year notes through
+ the #yearPattern attribute on the root calendar note. The options
+ are:
{year} results in the full year (e.g. 2025)The default is {year}
+
Trilium has some special support for day notes in the form of backend Script API - see e.g. getDayNote() function.
-Day (and year, month) notes are created with a label - e.g. #dateNote="2018-08-16" this
+
Day (and year, month) notes are created with a label - e.g. #dateNote="2025-03-09" this
can then be used by other scripts to add new notes to day note etc.
Journal also has relation child:child:child:template=Day template (see
[[attribute inheritance]]) which effectively adds [[template]] to day notes
- (grand-grand-grand children of Journal).