Practically Paperless with Obsidian, Episode 22: Daily Notes Revisited: The Best of Both Worlds?

Abstract

A continuous view of daily notes makes earlier entries easy to review, but storing every day in one file prevents Obsidian backlinks from identifying the date of an individual entry. Returning to separate daily files restores that context and native daily-note functions. Embedding those files in a separate Daily note, with the newest first, supplies the continuous view; searching across the embedded notes works in reading mode. Adding each new embed remains a manual step that the author intends to automate. Daily frontmatter records locations, a sleep rating, and a short summary. A Dataview table collects those fields into another index for reviewing days without reading every entry. The arrangement combines individual dated records with two broader views, while remaining an experiment open to revision. – AI-generated abstract.