7.3 Collection Settings  ↑

7.3.9 Use for Daily Notes

Many productivity gurus recommend some sort of system for Daily Notes.

This Medium post is representative.

The basic idea is to have a new note for each day, and then use it to quickly capture any ideas or potentially useful bits of info that come up during the day, deferring any action or more permanent cataloging for later — potentially during an end-of-day review.

Click on this Collection Settings checkbox to make this collection a Daily Notes collection.

Note that you may find it convenient to make a Daily Notes collection your General Notes collection as well, but this combination is not required.

Notenik actually supports two different approaches to keeping your Daily Notes, and provides a Built-In Starter Pack for each.

• Daily Notes in Subfolders — This makes use of the Folder field type to create a new subfolder for each date, with each added item becoming its own note. Some potential advantages with this approach are: a) since each item becomes its own note, these can easily be dragged and dropped later to more specific (and less general) collections; and b) when you are done with the notes for a particular date, the entire subfolder can be deleted or archived.

• Daily Notes in Single Folder — This uses the more traditional approach of creating a new note for each date, with each added item being appended to the end of the latest note’s body field.

Notenik provides the following additional/special functionality for a Daily Notes collection.