Daily notes and templates

Daily notes

⌘D opens today’s note, creating it if it doesn’t exist. They live in a Daily Notes folder by default.

A daily note is a good default home for anything without an obvious place — a call you took, a thought, a thing to look up. You can sort it out later, or never; search and links will still find it.

Templates

A template is just a note whose content gets copied into new notes. They live in a Templates folder.

Set them up in Settings:

• Default note template — applied to new notes
• Daily note template — applied when a daily note is created

These are separate on purpose. What you want in a blank note is rarely what you want in a day’s page.

Placeholders

Templates can carry placeholders that get filled in when the note is made:

Placeholder	Becomes
{{date}}	Today’s date
{{time}}	The current time
{{title}}	The note’s title
{{date:FORMAT}}	The date in a format you choose

A daily note template might be:

# {{date}}

## What happened

## Worth remembering

## Tomorrow

Three empty headings is usually plenty. A template you have to delete half of every morning gets abandoned by Thursday.

Where things go

The folders Pellet uses by default — Inbox, Daily Notes, Templates, Highlights, Attachments — are all changeable in Settings. If you already have a folder structure you like, point Pellet at it rather than reorganizing around the defaults.