Daily notes and templates

Daily notes

⌘D opens today’s note, creating it if it doesn’t exist. Before creating, Pellet checks the vault on disk as well as its own list of files, so a note that is there but not listed yet (the app is still reading the vault, or iCloud has not delivered it) is opened, never recreated over. 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

FORMAT understands YYYY, MM, DD, dddd/ddd (weekday), MMMM (month), HH, mm, and ww/w for the week number — so {{date:YYYY-ww}} gives 2026-31, and {{date:dddd DD MMMM}} gives Monday 03 August.

There’s no way to escape a letter you want kept literally. Every token in the list is substituted wherever it appears, so {{date:YYYY-[W]ww}} produces 2026-[W]31 rather than 2026-W31 — the brackets are passed through and the ww inside them is still replaced.

The week number follows Week starts on in Settings, so a note headed “Week 31” is the same week the calendar labels 31. It only differs on Sundays: with a Monday start a Sunday closes the week just gone, and with a Sunday start it opens the week ahead.

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.