Obsidian - Journal *PLUS* Task Tracking?

[webwalrus]

Trying to get my head wrapped around this.

I use Obsidian for daily task stuff, misc. notes, etc. And I have a fair bit of templating in play, including using the Periodic Notes plugin.

I’d like to use it for a journal as well, but not related to my daily task stuff.

Obviously I can’t use the periodic notes for the journal.

Do I just make another folder and write some hack-y code to auto-create the day-specific journal entry? Or is there another plugin that might make my life easier?

Anybody worked on this particular problem in the past? What did you wind up doing?

[ldebritto]

Have a look at this:

Multiple Obsidian Daily Note Folders in One Vault?

I was considering doing the same! 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 …

[Kullenej]

The Periodic Notes Beta Plugin is available (and will hopefully soon be implemented as a public plugin) - it adds the functionality of having several “calendar sets”. So you can have a private and a work-related date-note.

[webwalrus]

Have you used it? Do you think it’s stable enough to play with?

[Kullenej]

I did use it for a week and it did seem very stable. But I wait because the Calendar plugin also will get an update and I couldn’t manage to add that as the beta version so waited until they both are out of beta