Keeping a daily note?

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I can’t take much credit for the workflow because I was supported by the fine folk on the DevonThink forum.

But essentially, I have attached a reminder trigger to a particular “Daily Notes” folder in my DevonThink structure. This is available in the “Annotations & Reminders” sidebar.

I have set a daily reminder for 12:01am to run an embedded script. The embedded script is:

-- Create daily markdown record via reminder

on performReminder(theGroup)
	tell application id "DNtp"
		set theDate to do shell script "date \"+%A %d %B %Y\""
		set theName to do shell script "date \"+%Y%m%d\""
		create record with {name:theName, type:markdown, plain text:"# " & theDate & linefeed & linefeed & "- "} in theGroup
	end tell
end performReminder

This creates a new file for the day. I keep it open in a separate little window and just edit it through the day.

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