I’m currently using one vault for Obsidian. I use the daily note feature to log work items. I’d like to have a separate daily note for personal notes/journaling. Is it possible to do this in one vault? I don’t see how.
Or would I need to setup two separate vaults: Work and Personal, In order to have two separate daily notes? MacSparky today suggested you could definitely do it in one vault but I don’t see how.
You can totally go the two vault route (it’s probably the safest way) but if you really want to keep one vault (I certainly do) I think you could.
Here’s what I thought. Add this line to your daily note template:
[[Personal Daily Notes/{{date:yyyy-MM-DD}}|Today's Personal Note]]
Note that this approach will result in this:
It will create a Personal Daily Notes folder on which you have your Personal DNs saved;
Every file will have its own 2022-01-21 format (courtesy of the template plugin);
It will only create the personal note if clicked from the link on the “Work Daily Note” (this can be a problem on non-work days).
The final item can be worked around by making the Personal DN the default and inserting a link to create the Work DN… but that will result in the DN hotkey to be tied to the personal, not the work DN. Personally, I rather have a shortcut to my Work DN as I refer to it so many times during the day.
EDIT: to fix the curly bracket pointed by @anon41602260, thanks!
But, if you flip the circumstances and use the daily notes for personal entries, include your line in the daily note template, and make it
[[Work Daily Notes /{{date:yyyy-MM-DD}}|Today's Work Note]]
Then, since you “always” have a personal note, you invoke creation of the less common workday daily note from the personal note instead of the other way around.
(BTW, you had too many right-hand curly brackets in your posted suggestion.)
I haven’t tested this – so YMMV
Another option is to use the “Templater” community plugin and create a template that can be invoked from the sidebar or the command popover (⌘P) to create work note as needed.