foam/docs/daily-notes.md

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.

Must have

• Should exist as part of 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