Templates, today's note & weekly review
Templates for notes you write often, a note for every day, and a weekly look back.
Templates
- Put any markdown file in a
templates/folder — or open a note and choose / → Save this note as a template. - / → New note from template: name (or ⌘K), and give it a title.
| Placeholder | Becomes |
|---|---|
{{title}} | The title you typed |
{{date}} | Today, 2026-09-13 |
{{time}} | Now, 14:05 |
{{weekday}} | Sunday |
{{yesterday}} | 2026-09-12 |
{{tomorrow}} | 2026-09-14 |
Other {{braces}} are left alone. A template’s tags and other properties are copied; its title and dates are not.
Today’s note
/ → Open today’s note opens journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md, making it if needed. Write templates/daily.md to decide what a new day starts with.
Weekly review
/ → Write this week’s review makes journal/2026-w37.md and lists:
- the notes you started, worked on and deleted;
- overdue and upcoming to-dos, each with a link to its note;
- Worth a look — notes that point at a file or a note that no longer exists, and notes the notebook check thinks have gone out of date, each with the reason;
- an empty Looking back heading for your own thoughts.
Running it again the same week opens the one you already have. Weeks start on Monday.