Journaling in Obsidian Using Daily Questions

[@ympnowfsr]

Excellent video. Now I have to get working if I want to achieve a mere fraction of what you have.

[@douggottlieb]

Thanks for sharing this Mike!!!! Really helpful.

[@TheMingleMaster]

Love it. You deserve a lot more subsribers.

[@MikeSchmitz]

Thanks, working on it 😉

[@barnabasszakal7258]

It was great Mike, many thanks!

[@MikeSchmitz]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@exclusivelynyc]

Hi Mike, I've been using your system for about a month now, and I love the daily question. I'm noticing if I forget to log in to obsidian one day because I'm busy, the daily note is not created. I create a new one by copying an old one, but the Bible scripture doesn't update for that day I missed. It keeps the old image. Is there a code I have to update when I manual create a daily note because I missed a day? Is there an automatic way that it creates one even if I don't open the app on my phone? Thank you so much. It would also be nice if once the month ends, all those daily questions/notes go in to there own file with that months name. The daily question has really helped me; and, for the most part, keeps me consistent in journaling. I also find myself logging my dreams in this note if I remember them. Thanks again.

[@MikeSchmitz]

The easiest way to do this (assuming you have the variables set up correctly in the template) is to use the Calendar plugin. Once installed, you can click on a day in the calendar view and the Daily Note for that day will be created using the correct date. Hope that helps! For your second question, I don't know of a way to pull that into a monthly note. Sorry about that 😞

[@exclusivelynyc]

@MikeSchmitz thank you. Looking forward to your next video.

[@stevenmontante3606]

Hey Mike, thanks for this. I’ve been working with Obsidian since I started listening to your Deep Focus podcast. Like you, I am also a paper/fountain pen geek. I love my bujo but I like the way of keeping track of projects, info, etc in Obsidian. As a daily driver, my notebook is what I reach for. Do you have any suggestions on how to reconcile using both without them being too redundant? How do you currently employ analogue with Obsidian?

[@MikeSchmitz]

Hey Steven, for me analog is for planning and capture. I timeblock my day in my notebook and write notes there, which I then transfer to Obsidian at the end of the day. I am very selective though about the things that actually make it into Obsidian, and most of them get discarded. My tasks themselves are in other apps (ClickUp for work, Todoist for personal) and I embed personal tasks for personal projects where appropriate using the Todoist plugin for Obsidian.

[@thinkwhileeatingpasta5217]

How do you integrate due tasks today in daily notes?

[@MikeSchmitz]

In the video I'm using a code block for this Todoist Sync plugin: github.com/jamiebrynes7/obsidian-todoist-plugin. The Filter I use shows tasks that are due or overdue on the date of the Daily Note using a date token. The actual code is in the template available in my free Obsidian University Starter Vault: www.obsidianuniversity.com/vault I am working on replacing this though with a new version using Obsidian Tasks. Hope that helps!

[@bogdanmarcu135]

This is a nice plugin! What if you only want to count how many instances you have in your journal regarding some habits that you want to track (like meditation or working out)?

[@MikeSchmitz]

I don't have a great solution for this yet, but I'm experimenting with something. I'll report back 😉

[@markboerger4316]

Hey Mike, I have implemented this from your workflow and I love it. One question I have - how do you calculate the average in the Daily Questions page after each graph? Thanks for your work!

[@MikeSchmitz]

It's basically another identical code block with a different output. Here's the code I use: ```tracker searchType: tag searchTarget: dailyquestions/spiritual startDate: 2022-04-01 endDate: 2022-06-30 summary: template: 'Average: {{average()::.2f}}' ``` You can modify the start/end dates for the range you want and change the target for the tag you want the average of.

[@markboerger4316]

@@MikeSchmitz Cool thanks!

[@lisa6447]

I just started using Obsidian a few days ago and now I want to set up the tracker feature. It tells me that yAxisLabel, yMin and yMax are no available keys. Maybe the plugin got updated in the meantime... Can anyone help me?

[@MikeSchmitz]

Just checked, that code still works for me... I'm using the latest version of the plugin. I don't do tech support via KZbin, but would be happy to help you troubleshoot inside the course + community if you're interested: community.faithbasedproductivity.com/checkout/journaling-obsidian

[@lisa6447]

@@MikeSchmitz Found the issue! :) My date formats didn't line up and I used space instead of tab

[@danyukhin]

thank you