Daily Notes NG

Multiple journals, multi-user identity, and all your daily note tools in one plugin.

Why Daily Notes NG?

The Obsidian daily notes ecosystem has a maintenance crisis. Periodic Notes and Calendar have been abandoned for ~4 years with 151+ open issues. Users are forced to combine 5+ plugins for a complete workflow.

Daily Notes NG consolidates the best features into one plugin — and adds a named journals system and multi-user identity that no other daily notes plugin offers.

Core concept: named journals

Unlike other periodic notes plugins that give you one folder per periodicity, Daily Notes NG lets you define multiple named journals — each with its own folder, template, periodicity, and ownership scope:

Your journals:
├── Personal        → Journal/Alice/Daily     (daily, person-scoped)
├── Work standup    → Teams/Dev/Standup       (daily, group-scoped)
├── Research log    → Research/Weekly          (weekly, person-scoped)
├── HQ bulletin     → HQ/Bulletin             (daily, global)
└── Team retro      → Teams/Dev/Retro         (weekly, group-scoped)

Global journals are available to everyone. Person journals only appear on registered devices. Group journals show for all group members. See journals.

Features

Named journals — Multiple journals per vault with independent folder/template/periodicity configs
Multi-user identity — Device registration, person/group notes, creator attribution, per-person routing
Calendar sidebar — Month-view calendar with dot indicators
Folder-note mode — Store notes as folders for attachment nesting, auto-generated .base MOC indexes
Template integration — Built-in variables + seamless Templater bridge
Todo rollover — Carry incomplete checkboxes from yesterday
Frontmatter dates — Auto-populate created/modified with smart debouncing
Natural language dates — Type @next friday to insert date links inline

Architecture

graph TD
    DNNG["Daily Notes NG"]
    DNNG --> J["Journals<br/><i>Personal, Work standup, HQ bulletin, ...</i>"]
    J --> JR["Journal Resolver"]
    J --> Cal["Calendar Sidebar"]
    J --> Nav["Navigation + Picker"]
    DNNG --> ID["Identity System <i>(optional)</i><br/>Device ID → Person Note → Scope filtering"]
    DNNG --> Extras["Templates · Todo Rollover · Frontmatter · NLP Dates"]

    style DNNG fill:#7c3aed,color:#fff
    style J fill:#5b21b6,color:#fff
    style ID fill:#2d1854,color:#c4b5fd

For developers

Built with Bun, TypeScript, and esbuild. Includes Obsidian CLI testing, a test fixtures plugin, and BRAT-compatible releases.

See the glossary for terminology.