Daily Notes

Daily notes give you a dedicated place for each day. One file, one date, stored in your vault as plain markdown. Atlas can create, read, and write to your daily notes during any conversation — so capturing something from your day is as simple as asking.

How Daily Notes Work

Each daily note is stored at:

<vault>/daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md

For example, February 24 2026 would be daily/2026-02-24.md.

Atlas creates the file the first time you ask for it on a given day. If the note already exists, Atlas opens the existing one rather than creating a new one.

Opening Today’s Note

There are a few ways to get to today’s daily note:

• Click on the calendar icon in the top right next to settings
• Press Ctrl + Shift + N to open or create today’s note instantly
• Ask Atlas in chat: “open my daily note” or “show me today’s note”
• Browse to the daily/ folder in the Files tab

The Default Template

When Atlas creates a new daily note, it uses a default template that includes:

• A date heading
• A Tasks section for your to-dos
• A Notes section for free-form thoughts

You can customize this template to match how you like to organize your day. See Creating Templates for details.

Tip

If you want Atlas to automatically add a morning briefing, weather summary, or calendar overview to each new daily note, you can set up a scheduled task that runs when you start your day. See Scheduled Tasks.

What Atlas Can Do with Daily Notes

During a conversation, Atlas can:

• Read your daily note — “what did I note down this morning?”
• Add to your daily note — “add a note that the client call went well”
• Add tasks — “add a task to follow up with Marco today”
• Check tasks — “what are my tasks for today?”
• Generate a daily report — “summarize what I accomplished today”

Atlas always targets today’s date unless you specify otherwise: “add this to yesterday’s note” or “what was in my note on February 18th?” both work.

Navigating Past Daily Notes

Your daily/ folder contains all your past notes in chronological order by filename. You can:

• Browse them in the Files tab
• Ask Atlas: “what did I work on last Tuesday?”
• Search across all your daily notes via the vault search