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...

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. ☺️

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.

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?

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.

CatarinaDK

Hi,

I have also added my shortcut "Add reminders to today's note" to the very end of your awesome shortcut. 😊 And a automation, so everything runs at 5 in the morning.

Now with a CheckList.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/48a684cae2c1404bbe2fcabc071f2ff2

IanB

Hi,

Thank you for your shortcut. As the only thing I wished to add to today's note was reminders, your shortcut seemed ideal. I downloaded it, but when I ran it, it stopped and asked me to select a note from what appeared to be a random selection of notes and folders. If I selected a note from the list that was one of my daily notes it worked perfectly and added the correct working reminders. Do you have any idea why it does not automatically select the todays note? I am running the whole forever notes on my iPhone as my iMac is too old to work Notes correctly.

Shaun

IanB can you share screenshots of the expected note that you believe the shortcut should be automatically writing to?

and a screenshot of Shortcuts pausing and asking what notes?

Are the daily notes in a folder within the notes App or no?

IanB

Shaun Hello Shaun, this is the note to which I wished to append the reminders:-

![](blob:https://forum.myforevernotes.com/a0c5fc6d-fc9b-491e-ba17-6a6f146b5703)and this is the list that the shortcut provided:-

![](blob:https://forum.myforevernotes.com/d528ed67-0383-45ed-8879-23980f96c63e)All of my daily notes are stored in a folder called Journal in the Notes app.

IanB

IanB Hello Shaun, I will try and send the images again:-

![](blob:https://forum.myforevernotes.com/f5bb5a14-bfac-416f-95d3-f244b3d60b47)

![](blob:https://forum.myforevernotes.com/9723c51a-a858-4474-9a67-ef371a142779)

IanB

IanB I have now managed to get this part of the programme working on my 2014 iMac which now shows me the error message when it stops. I hope that someone can please help me with solving the problem.

![](blob:https://forum.myforevernotes.com/4ad6c825-e9a9-4c32-9994-cd85615fc649)