“Open Today’s Note” Shortcut messed up

FilipeA · 2025-10-18T08:57:22+00:00

How come nobody talking about the “Open Today’s Note” shortcut stopped working in IOS and therefore the entire thing becomes almost unusable…

FilipeA

I thought a lot about it and found out what the issue is: language settings. I’d previously switched between english and german. This led to the shortcut not working… switched back and now it’s working again

Jay-BRF

I've been trying to set up my journal today and I had no luck with the Today's Note shortcut. I'm using an iPhone 16 Pro with iOS 18.6.2 and a Macbook Pro with MacOS Tahoe 26.0.1

When I run the shortcut, it shows me a list of my notes, but that's it. I'm no expert with apple shortcuts as I barely use it in the past, but I've been trying suggestion I've read in forums like changing the format to "d MMMM" and even rebuilding it myself from scratch, but no luck at all. I had my systems in Spanish, so I thought that could be issue; deleted all the journal's entries, change the system language to english, created the journal entries again bu still no luck. :/

CatarinaDK

I haven’t had any problems on my Mac until today, when I updated to Tahoe 26.1 — now the “Open Today’s Note” shortcut suddenly doesn’t work on Mac anymore, even though it still works fine on my iPhone.

Matthias

CatarinaDK Does it still work when Notes is already running?

CatarinaDK

Matthias
I run it from the the notes app - and until yesterday it worked perfectly. Photo example - I go to yesterdays note and press on (I dag) whitch have this link shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Today%E2%80%99s%20Note - and now it don't work. I even tried to rename the shortcut with differents '´ but it didn't help.

Matthias

CatarinaDK Your day note "3. november" should be "03. november", maybe that's the problem?

CatarinaDK

Matthias

From the beginning I have change the shortcut dat to speciel and dd. MMMM - so that can’t be the problem and it worked since April 😊

Matthias

CatarinaDK Just to be sure, this is what your shortcut looks like?

CatarinaDK

Matthias Yes 😀 I just noticed that when I run the shortcut manually I works, but its not from the shortcut link - odd - and I'm sil using this: shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Today%E2%80%99s%20Note

CatarinaDK

Ok, I got the shortcut from the Resourses and overwrite the old one - shot the notes and testartede min Mac, and now it works - don't know why. But a long as it works 😀

RubyTopaz

Trying again. The forevernotes link to "open Today's Note" on my Mac and IOS devices opens a Note that was created on this date. March 8. How can I resolve this. Thank you.

fmvela

RubyTopaz I’m having the same issue since I updated to iOS 26.4. When I use the Today note shortcut, it takes me to a completely different note.

MikeBrown

I updated my MacBook to Tahoe 26.4 last night and clicking the Today link in any note opens the monthly March note, every time. Running the Open Today's Note directly from Shortcuts also displays the monthly March note.

Will try to troubleshoot later and reply back.

CatarinaDK

MikeBrown

It’s already solve in som of the other chats from yesterday and today😊 New funktion in Shortcuts. Åben = Open Start = Home

LucianHuang

MikeBrown The same symptom I encountered. Any resolution now?

svorsk

LucianHuang Today my “Open Today” shortcut malfunctioned too! Turns out the mistake was on my end! I had not set up the daily note with the title “05 April”—but only “5 April”. Adding the zero to the note fixed, since the instruction in the shortcut is for “dd mmmm”.

Imori

Open Today Note not working. Not sure if it is iOS 26.4 that is doing it, but when I open Today Note, it keeps opening April note instead of 05 April

trxonspeed

Imori Edit your shortcut like this and it will work. IOS 26.4 is the culprit

LucianHuang

trxonspeed Thank you. It works.