Obsidian Daily Notes: Free Templates & Setup

How Daily Notes Work in Obsidian

Obsidian's core Daily notes plugin creates one note per day from a template you define, and that template decides whether the habit sticks. This category collects our daily note downloads, starting with the Daily Note Starter, a daily note template for Obsidian with Agenda, Tasks, Log and Gratitude sections, navigation between days, and a fully worked example week, so you can read seven real days before you commit to the structure.

The zip includes two variants of the same template. The core version runs on Obsidian's built-in plugins only, which makes it the right pick if you keep restricted mode on or simply want zero setup. The Templater version fills in dates automatically and adds the previous/next links between days. If you are not sure which engine you need, the Templates vs Templater guide explains the difference and walks through installing either one.

Daily notes pay off when they feed something larger. Once a few weeks of entries pile up, a weekly review keeps them from becoming a write-only archive, and the templates in the weekly and periodic notes category are built to sit on top of this exact daily structure.