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id, title, tags, date-created, daily
| id | title | tags | date-created | daily | ||
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| 2026-04-15T15:15:07-0400 | 2026-04-15 15:15:07 |
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2026-04-15T15:15:07-04:00 | 2026-04-15 |
2026-04-15 15:15:07
Considering the Role of Daily Notes in My Vault
I think daily notes still have a good use case for me, but I'm not sure of the details.
What content should be daily and what timestamped is a matter of the logic of links and tags.
Daily notes should only contain content about that day.
What's tricky about this is that
What Daily Notes Should Contain
Tracking
Made recipe: [[granola]]
What Daily Notes Should Not Contain
Synthesis
The utility of timestamped notes is that, since the topic is self-contained, the note's tags apply to all content within it. Contrast with my previous system, more like a traditional diary, where synthesis for myriad topics was grouped arbitrarily by the day I happened to make a connection.
Timestamped notes are still labeled by time like dailies, but they aren't grouped.
What Daily Notes Could Contain
Objective Descriptions of Events
I see two options, neither attractive:
Option 1: Prose
because it would be very boring to write.