# Daily notes

The idea is to make it easier for people to be able to create Daily notes.

This feature is open for discussion at [foambubble/foam#54](https://github.com/foambubble/foam/issues/54).

## Must have

- Should exist as part of [foam-vscode](https://github.com/foambubble/foam/tree/master/packages/foam-vscode) extension 
- A new command "Foam: Open Daily Note", which creates new file and focuses into it, or opens the existing file for today if it exists already.
  - File should have a Level 1 `# Heading`
- Extension should define a hotkey for it (TBD? What do other apps do?)

## Should have

- Settings to customise:
  - Format of file name, default to `yyyy-mm-dd`
  - Format of title
    - Default to same as file name
    - Allow override e.g. `MMMMM D, YYYY`, to July 8. 2020 (locale specific)
  - Extension of file, default to `.md`
  - Directory into which file should be created, default to `./` (workspace root)
    - Should create directory if needed

## Could have
- Automatically update a "daily notes" index file, newest first. Format TBD
  - A custom note template .md file that could be stored in `.vscode/` directory (would supercede having to format the title)
    - This could be useful for people who e.g. want there to be a format for every day's notes with fixed questions and stuff.
  - Maybe we could do it with just back links or tags, by putting e.g. `[[daily]]` into the note template
  - If files were named in alphabetic sortable order, and back links would display in reverse order, newest would always come on top

[//begin]: # "Autogenerated link references for markdown compatibility"
[todo]: todo "Todo"
[roadmap]: roadmap "Roadmap"
[//end]: # "Autogenerated link references"