Quick Daily Note

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A daily-journal and todo companion plugin for Obsidian: one-click daily notes, a calendar panel with per-day todos, scheduled reminders, and paste/rendering enhancements.

Features

📝 Daily Notes

• Click the calendar icon in the ribbon, or run the command "New daily note (enter name)" to create a note titled "date + name" — the folder and date format are configurable. If a note with the same name exists, it opens directly.
• In the sidebar calendar panel, double-click a date to open or create that day's note.
• Weekly notes — the calendar has a "W" (weekly) column on the left of the day grid, separated by a divider, one cell per week row: double-click it to open that week's note (named by ISO week, e.g. "2026-W37 周记") or create it for a weekly study summary. A single click changes nothing — the selected date, the todo list and the day-note list stay untouched; weeks that already have a note show a dot.
• Templates — optionally apply a Markdown template when creating daily or weekly notes (toggle in settings, template file picked from the vault). Placeholders are replaced on creation: {{title}}, {{date}}, {{time}}, {{date:FORMAT}}, and {{week}} (weekly notes only, e.g. 2026-W37; there {{date}} is the week's Monday).

✅ Calendar & Todos

• The calendar panel manages todos per day: add with the input box (Enter), check off, double-click to edit text, or open the row-end ⋯ menu for edit / copy / delete.
• Multi-line todos — the add box and the todo editor are auto-growing text areas that wrap long text (no more moving the cursor horizontally through a single line): Enter confirms / saves, Shift+Enter inserts a newline, and multi-line todo text renders with line breaks preserved (the weekly review flattens them into single checklist lines).
• When yesterday has unfinished todos, a "Carry over to today" banner appears at the top — one click moves them to today, marked as "carried over".
• Below the calendar: stats for this month's diary days, consecutive diary days, and today's word count.
• Multiple daily notes per day — click a date in the calendar panel to list all daily notes created for that day; click a title to jump to that note, or use ＋ New to create another one for the same day.

⏰ Reminders

• Scheduled prompts to add a todo, or to check the day's unfinished todos; clicking the notification opens the calendar panel.
• Email notifications — when a todo is added, or the daily unfinished-todo check finds pending items, an email is sent to your custom mailbox (via Web3Forms, free tier ~250/month). Toggleable in settings; configure the Access Key from web3forms.com and your recipient email there.

📊 Weekly Review

• The command "Generate weekly review" summarizes the week's diaries (days, word count, titles) and completed/uncompleted todos into Markdown, inserted at the cursor.
• The command "Generate weekly review for a chosen week" first shows a picker of the last 12 weeks (including the current one, searchable by week number or date) and generates the same summary for the selected week (titled e.g. "2026-W36 回顾").

⌨️ Paste Enhancements

• Auto-detect the language of pasted code (30+ languages, including Mermaid diagrams, zero dependencies) and wrap it in a fenced code block; plain text, single-line weak matches, and pastes inside code blocks are left alone.
• Optionally save pasted images into a configurable folder (vault-relative path; empty = vault root) and insert the link at the cursor (off by default).
• File explorer copy/paste — with a file or folder selected in the sidebar file explorer, Ctrl/Cmd+C / Ctrl/Cmd+X copy or cut it (folders included, copied recursively), and Ctrl/Cmd+V pastes it into the selected folder, or the folder of the selected file — even while that file is open — (duplicates get a numbered suffix); files copied from the system file manager can be pasted into the vault the same way. Copying/pasting text in the editor keeps its native behavior. Toggleable in settings.
• Code block delete — a delete button next to the native copy button on rendered code blocks (reading view & live preview) removes the whole block from the note.
• Inline code copy — click inline code in reading view to copy its content instantly (Alt/Ctrl+click in live preview/editor, so plain clicks still position the cursor); code blocks are unaffected. Toggleable in settings.
• Quick line copy — hold Alt and click anywhere on a line to copy the whole line without selecting it (live preview/editor copies the source line under the cursor; reading view copies the clicked paragraph/heading/list item, and lines inside code blocks are located by click position with indentation preserved). Plain clicks are unaffected and task checkboxes still toggle; Alt+click on inline code still copies the code itself. Off by default, toggleable in settings.
• Blank lines around media — pasted images and pasted code blocks are inserted with an empty line above and below; a command "Blank lines around images/code blocks" formats the current note the same way (fences of any length/type are respected, code block content is untouched).
• Sync-ready storage — plugin settings and todo data are saved to a single file quick-daily-note.json in the vault root, so they sync across devices with vault sync tools (e.g. Remotely Save). The name intentionally has no dot prefix — Remotely Save skips dotfiles. Legacy data.json / .quick-daily-note.json configs are auto-migrated on first load, and changes synced in from another device reload automatically. Background settings are per-device (stored locally in the plugin's data.json, not synced), so each device can have its own wallpaper.

🖼️ Image Enhancements

• Images fit the note width automatically; overly tall images are height-limited.
• Hover a rendered image for a toolbar: crop, copy, rename, delete (deleting also removes the references in notes and moves the file to the system trash). Click the image to zoom.
• Click an image to view it enlarged, with crop and other actions in the modal toolbar.

📈 Mermaid Enhancements

• Diagrams fit the container width (or render at original size), with a configurable height limit for tall diagrams.
• Toolbar above the diagram (outside the rendered frame): zoom in/out, reset, download as SVG or PNG (export scale configurable); click a diagram to view it enlarged.
• Diagrams adapt to the page width when printing or exporting to PDF — never clipped.

🌤️ Weather Recording

• When enabled, the current day's weather is fetched and written below the note title after creating a daily note (data from Open-Meteo, no API key; failures never block note creation).

🖼️ App Background

• Set the whole interface background to a custom image or video from your vault — videos (mp4/webm/ogv) play as a dynamic wallpaper — with full adjustments: opacity, blur, brightness, contrast, position, scale and fit mode.

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Installation

Community Plugin Browser (once listed)

Settings → Community plugins → Browse, then search for Quick Daily Note.

BRAT (before listing)

1. Install the BRAT plugin.
2. Run the command BRAT: Add a beta plugin for testing and enter 456-77/quick-daily-note.
3. Enable Quick Daily Note.

Manual Install

Download the latest release from GitHub, and copy main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/quick-daily-note/, then enable the plugin in Settings.

Usage

Commands

Image Toolbar Buttons

Settings

Daily Notes

Feature Toggles

Mermaid Diagrams

App Background

Weather

Reminders

Data & Privacy

• All data is stored in your vault's data.json; nothing is uploaded to any server.
• The only network request is weather data from open-meteo.com when weather recording is enabled (public API, no key, off by default).

Compatibility

• Requires Obsidian v1.7.2 or later.
• Works on desktop and mobile.

Development

npm install
npm run build   # tsc type check + esbuild bundle

Build output: main.js, manifest.json, styles.css.

Support & Feedback

Issues and suggestions are welcome at GitHub Issues.

License

MIT