Manage Obsidian Daily Notes via obsidian-cli. Create and open daily notes, append entries (journals, logs, tasks, links), read past notes by date, and search vault content. Handles relative dates like "yesterday", "last Friday", "3 days ago".
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Interact with Obsidian Daily Notes: create notes, append entries, read by date, and search content.
Check if a default vault is configured:
obsidian-cli print-default --path-only 2>/dev/null && echo "OK" || echo "NOT_SET"
If
NOT_SETDaily NotesJournaldailyYYYY-MM-DDConfigure the vault:
obsidian-cli set-default "VAULT_NAME"
Obsidian Daily Notes plugin defaults:
YYYY-MM-DDGet current date:
date +%Y-%m-%d
Cross-platform relative dates (GNU first, BSD fallback):
| Reference | Command |
|---|---|
| Today | |
| Yesterday | |
| Last Friday | |
| 3 days ago | |
| Next Monday | |
obsidian-cli daily
Opens today's daily note in Obsidian, creating it from template if it doesn't exist.
obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "ENTRY_TEXT")" --append
With custom folder:
obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "Daily Notes/$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "ENTRY_TEXT")" --append
Today:
obsidian-cli print "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md"
Specific date:
obsidian-cli print "2025-01-10.md"
Relative date (yesterday):
obsidian-cli print "$(date -d yesterday +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d).md"
obsidian-cli search-content "TERM"
Interactive fuzzy finder:
obsidian-cli search
Add
--vault "NAME"obsidian-cli print "2025-01-10.md" --vault "Work"
- Went to the doctor - [ ] Buy groceries - https://github.com/anthropics/skills - 15:45 This is a log line
Journal entry:
obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "- Went to the doctor")" --append
Task:
obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "- [ ] Buy groceries")" --append
Link:
obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "- https://github.com/anthropics/skills")" --append
Timestamped log:
obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "- $(date +%H:%M) This is a log line")" --append
Read last Friday:
obsidian-cli print "$(date -d 'last friday' +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -v-friday +%Y-%m-%d).md"
Search for "meeting":
obsidian-cli search-content "meeting"