Easy Link to Daily Note

Overview

Easy Link to Daily Note is an Obsidian plugin that creates a new note with a timestamp-based filename and appends a link to that note in today's daily note.

It is useful for workflows where you want to capture quick notes without naming friction while keeping them connected to your daily log.

Features

• Create a unique note with a filename like 2026-05-26-09-41-05.md
• Append a link to the new note in today's daily note
• Optionally append links for Web Clipper notes tagged with clippings

Installation

From a release

1. Open this repository's releases page.
2. Download manifest.json, main.js, and styles.css if a stylesheet is included in the release.
3. Create a folder named easy-link-to-daily-note in your vault at .obsidian/plugins/.
4. Copy the downloaded files into .obsidian/plugins/easy-link-to-daily-note/.
5. In Obsidian, open Settings -> Community plugins.
6. Turn off Safe mode if needed, then enable Easy Link to Daily Note.

From source

1. Clone this repository.
2. Run npm install.
3. Run npm run build.
4. Copy manifest.json and main.js into .obsidian/plugins/easy-link-to-daily-note/ in your vault.
5. Enable the plugin from Settings -> Community plugins.

Usage

Before you start

1. Enable Obsidian's core Daily notes plugin.
2. Set your daily note folder in the Daily Notes settings.
3. Set Obsidian's default folder for new notes if you want timestamp notes created in a specific location.

Create a timestamp note

1. Run the command Create a unique note from the command palette.
2. Optionally assign a hotkey to the command. Cmd+J is a reasonable example.
3. The plugin creates a new note named with the current timestamp.
4. The plugin appends a bullet like - 09:41 [[2026-05-26-09-41-05]] to today's daily note.
5. The new note opens immediately so you can start typing.

Web Clipper integration

1. Open the plugin settings tab.
2. Enable Append web clipper's link to daily note.
3. When a newly created note contains the clippings tag, the plugin appends a link to today's daily note if the link is not already present.

Automatic monitoring starts after the vault layout is ready. Notes already loaded at that point, and notes whose original creation time predates monitoring, are ignored. This prevents old clippings arriving through Sync or filename repair from being logged as new captures. Enabling or reloading the plugin does not backfill existing clippings.

The plugin uses the file's creation time, not its last-modified time or the time of a create event. An importer that resets an old note's creation time to the present can still make it look new. Files with an unknown creation time, folders, and attachments are excluded.

New clippings wait for metadata resolution and then for Sync, when enabled. The daily note and capture time are preserved across the Sync wait, while the link uses the clipping's current filename. Repeated notifications for the same file are handled once, and deleted or replaced files are skipped. Disabling the plugin cancels pending appends. Today's note opens only when a link is actually added.

Development

Use Node.js 22 or newer. Run npm test for the event regression tests and npm run build for type checking and the production bundle. Tests cover old Sync arrivals, startup, duplicate notifications, filename changes during waits, and cancellation. They substitute the vault and Obsidian API boundary; they do not simulate the Sync service itself.

Command

• Create a unique note