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Use case: Daily notes

Not yet supported as a built-in feature. Alexandria has no automatic daily note or calendar yet - here is how to approximate the workflow today.

Manual desktop workflow

Create one note per day and title it with the date. Then tag it with a Daily tag so those notes can be collected in one place.

  1. Use Add page in the sidebar and title the page Daily.
  2. Open Manage Properties on the Daily tag.
  3. In Tag Properties, add date as a date property.
  4. For each day, use Add page again and title the note with the date, for example 2026-07-11.
  5. In the note's tags bar under the title, type Daily and pick the existing tag.
  6. In the inline properties panel, set date to the same day.

If you do not need a structured date column, you can skip Manage Properties. On your first daily note, use the tags bar to type Daily and create the tag from the dropdown.

What to write in each note

Use the note body as a simple journal page:

## Plan
- 

## Log
- 

## Follow-ups
-

Alexandria stores notes as Markdown files on disk. The files are already date-partitioned by creation date under notes/YYYY/MM/DD/..., so the manual date title is for your workflow and search, not for making the filesystem structure work.

To keep a running dashboard, create a normal dashboard note with Add page, for example Daily Notes Dashboard. In the editor, open the slash menu (/) and choose Link DB Table, then point it at the Daily tag.

The table shows notes tagged with Daily and their properties. It is useful as a live index, but it is not a calendar and it does not add filtering, sorting, grouping, or hidden columns.

On the Daily tag page, View settings can switch between the property table and cover gallery.