Notes

Keep one note per day in a folder you choose, started from a template, and read or append to any day from the CLI.

A daily note is one Markdown note per day, such as Daily/2026-10-28.md. Use it for a journal, a plan or a log. Press Cmd+D to open today's note.

Open a day

• Press Cmd+D to open today's note.
• Move to the previous or next day from the daily note.
• A month calendar opens as a tab, or in the Calendar panel.

Set the folder and template

• Folder: Daily by default, from the vault root. An empty folder means the root.
• Template: .loam/templates/daily.md by default. {{date}} becomes the day, as YYYY-MM-DD.
• Without a template, a day gets a file when you add its first text.

# {{date}}

## Plan
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Write from the CLI

1. Append a line to today's note.
2. Append to another day with date.
3. Add text at the top, below the title.
4. Read the note back.

loam --vault ~/Notes daily.append text="Met Bob"
loam --vault ~/Notes daily.append text="Went running" date=2026-10-27
loam --vault ~/Notes daily.prepend text="Launch day" date=2026-10-27
loam --vault ~/Notes daily.read date=2026-10-27

Commands