Diary Linker

Diary Linker adds a calendar view for your daily notes and keeps month/year/root notes linked together. Click a day to open (or create) the note for that date.

What it does

• Adds a Diary calendar view with month navigation and a Today button.
• Creates a structured diary hierarchy: <Diary folder>/<year>/<month>/<day>.md.
• Ensures parent links are present:
  • root note → year note → month note → day note
• Uses a template note from your Templates/ folder and replaces placeholders.

How to use

1. Enable the plugin.
2. Open Settings → Community plugins → Diary Linker.
3. Set Diary folder (default: Diary).
4. Choose a template note from your Templates/ folder.
5. Run the command Open diary calendar.
6. Click a date to open or create the note.

The plugin also opens the calendar view automatically on startup.

Template placeholders

Your template note must include {{diary-link}}. The plugin replaces it with a link to the parent note.

Additional supported placeholders:

• {{title}} → note title (filename without .md)
• {{date}} → day number (01..31)
• {{time}} → current time (HH:mm)

Example template:

# {{title}}

Created at {{time}}

{{diary-link}}

Commands

• Open diary calendar: Opens the calendar view.

Settings

• Diary folder: Root folder for diary notes (default: Diary).
• Template note: A note inside the Templates/ folder. Must include {{diary-link}}.

Privacy

• No network requests.
• No telemetry or analytics.
• Only reads/writes inside your vault.

Development

npm install
npm run dev

Build

npm run build

Manual install

Copy these files to <Vault>/.obsidian/plugins/diary-linker/:

• main.js
• manifest.json
• styles.css

License

MIT