obsidian-daily

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Manage Obsidian Daily Notes via obsidian-cli. Create and open daily notes, append entries (journals, logs, tasks, links), read past notes by date, and search vault content. Handles relative dates like "yesterday", "last Friday", "3 days ago". Requires obsidian-cli installed via Homebrew (Mac/Linux) or Scoop (Windows).

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Sourcebastos/skills

Added on2026-02-08

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add bastos/skills obsidian-daily

SKILL.md Content

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Obsidian Daily Notes

Interact with Obsidian Daily Notes: create notes, append entries, read by date, and search content.

Setup

Check if a default vault is configured:

bash

obsidian-cli print-default --path-only 2>/dev/null && echo "OK" || echo "NOT_SET"

If

NOT_SET

, ask the user:

Vault name (required)
Daily notes folder (default: vault root, common:
```
Daily Notes
```
,
```
Journal
```
,
```
daily
```
)
Date format (default:
```
YYYY-MM-DD
```
)

Configure the vault:

bash

obsidian-cli set-default "VAULT_NAME"

Obsidian Daily Notes plugin defaults:

Date format:
```
YYYY-MM-DD
```
New file location: Vault root
Template file location: (none)

Date Handling

Get current date:

bash

date +%Y-%m-%d

Cross-platform relative dates (GNU first, BSD fallback):

Reference	Command
Today	`date +%Y-%m-%d`
Yesterday	`date -d yesterday +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null \|\| date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d`
Last Friday	`date -d "last friday" +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null \|\| date -v-friday +%Y-%m-%d`
3 days ago	`date -d "3 days ago" +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null \|\| date -v-3d +%Y-%m-%d`
Next Monday	`date -d "next monday" +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null \|\| date -v+monday +%Y-%m-%d`

Commands

Open/Create Today's Note

bash

obsidian-cli daily

Opens today's daily note in Obsidian, creating it from template if it doesn't exist.

Append Entry

bash

obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "ENTRY_TEXT")" --append

With custom folder:

bash

obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "Daily Notes/$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "ENTRY_TEXT")" --append

Read Note

Today:

bash

obsidian-cli print "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md"

Specific date:

bash

obsidian-cli print "2025-01-10.md"

Relative date (yesterday):

bash

obsidian-cli print "$(date -d yesterday +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d).md"

Search Content

bash

obsidian-cli search-content "TERM"

Search Notes

Interactive fuzzy finder:

bash

obsidian-cli search

Specific Vault

Add

--vault "NAME"

to any command:

bash

obsidian-cli print "2025-01-10.md" --vault "Work"

Example Output

markdown

- Went to the doctor
- [ ] Buy groceries
- https://github.com/anthropics/skills
- 15:45 This is a log line

Use Cases

Journal entry:

bash

obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "- Went to the doctor")" --append

Task:

bash

obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "- [ ] Buy groceries")" --append

Link:

bash

obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "- https://github.com/anthropics/skills")" --append

Timestamped log:

bash

obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "- $(date +%H:%M) This is a log line")" --append

Read last Friday:

bash

obsidian-cli print "$(date -d 'last friday' +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -v-friday +%Y-%m-%d).md"

Search for "meeting":

bash

obsidian-cli search-content "meeting"

obsidian-daily

NPX Install

Tags

SKILL.md Content

Obsidian Daily Notes

Setup

Date Handling

Commands

Open/Create Today's Note

Append Entry

Read Note

Search Content

Search Notes

Specific Vault

Example Output

Use Cases