Template for Daily Note

douglangille · 2025-01-13T13:36:30+00:00

Ahoy-hoy. I think I managed to get a decent Apple Shortcut that pre-populates the daily note. Grabs the city I woke up in, the weather, a list of most of my...

Sharks_with_freakin_lasers

This is brilliant. You solved a problem I has having trying to adapt the Daily Plan note from Playing with Sharp objects. https://shokk.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/my-daily-plan-shortcut-for-apple-devices/

Full credit to both of you, here’s the love child. Note that Playing with Sharp objects link above has further links for all the modular shortcuts .

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/f438f5eb27b04fb48f2325d082065892

DeborahMcKinley

Sharks_with_freakin_lasers I’m able to download the shortcut, but when I click on the shortcut it gives me an error message that says “shortcut not found”. Am I doing something wrong?

JamesonTravick

Sharks_with_freakin_lasers Thank you for sharing your template! I have tweaked it a little, but I do have a few questions. For example, is there a way to change the formatting like the highlighting color or block style of some of the text and is there a way to format the text to make the Reminders that are found to be formatted as a list of checkable todo list? I've tried, but wasn't able to get it to work.

NotebookNavigator

douglangille this is very helpful. Thank you!

shokk

Thank you! I love the format for the city and weather, plus the vision and reflection.

I really wish there was a way to automate it for newest stuff on top.

douglangille

shokk Me too. I’ve seen some goofy juggling to prepend to a note, but that doesn’t really work with the navigation. Personally, I’m going to settle for appending to the bottom—- unless someone figures this out. ☺️

amvdberg

shokk Not sure if someone posted a solution yet but I am using a work around that copies the output from the daily note to the clipboard. Then I open Today’s note and paste it where I want it …. Maybe someone can create a shortcut to automate that, but I am not at that level (yet).

sjk

This is excellent, thanks for sharing. One small issue I've noted is if I run it twice (simulating 2026 run), instead of a Heading for the current year, the second run produces a Subheading.

Is this expected behaviour for next year's automation, or is this happening due to second run within the same day?

douglangille

sjk I haven’t seen that in my testing. But the Apple Shortcuts’ Richtext from Markdown is kinda catawampus.

I’ll be tweaking my shortcut to add monthly/quarterly/yearly planning bits to the template. I’ll see if I can polish the formatting some more, without breaking the minimalistic vibe.

Alex-de-Witte

this is what I needed thanks for sharing I have a great idea in my head unfortunately I am still a newbe with shortcuts creating and maybe you can help me out if interested with my idea.

I think with your shortcut as the base and a shortcut that I already have (not my idea) and we could merge them we create a great CRM shortcut.

tvillemw

I use Messages for this kind of summary. The automated shortcut sends its output to my husband and myself every morning at 6. We look at Messages and get on the same page, so to speak, over our first cup of coffee. If I wanted I could drag and drop the beautiful blue bubble into the Today note.

Sethjk

douglangille nothing to add, but wanted to say my wife works in accessibility for a large telecom company. Fascinating field.

thanporter

douglangille Thanks for the Daily Notes shortcut. It is just what I was looking for and you had the solution ready for action.

tr4jan

DeborahMcKinley Well, that's the heading of the error message, but there is still text underneath, namely the reference to invalid content as the cause. If you open the shortcut in edit mode, you will see which part of it does not work - which you could then theoretically replace.

Alex-de-Witte

douglangille

I use it now for a few months and love it only the weekly /monthly en yearly is not working with me and I can’t figure it out. Any tips/tricks are appreciated

CatarinaDK

douglangille

This is awesome , thanks for sharing. Is there a way I can get the lowest temperature and the highest temperature in for the day?

And is it correct that I have to pick out the note for today every day?

CatarinaDK

CatarinaDK never mind I found out by my self😀

tr4jan

CatarinaDK
That sounds great. Would you mind sharing the result with us? Perhaps other users have exactly the same question.

CatarinaDK

tr4jan I just added Lav (low) and høj (high) to the text.

Maybe you can answer 2 other another question: How come, when I'm running the shortcut, it looks for today's note?

And is it possible to make a automation, so you awesome shortcut, runs automatic, at 5 AM?

![](blob:https://forum.myforevernotes.com/d46cd303-b642-4b56-846a-5722361a621e)

RubyTopaz

douglangille I really like this and will use it. Can I just delete the "day is not Saturday/Sunday bits? Thank you.