Notes

Daily notes and templates

A note for each day, and reusable templates with date, time and title placeholders.

Updated 2026-09-25

Daily notes

Open today's daily note with one action and Atrium creates it if it doesn't exist yet. By default daily notes live in a Journal folder and are named by date, such as Journal/2026-09-25.md. You can change the folder and the date format; a format containing / nests notes by month or year (for example yyyy/MM/yyyy-MM-dd).

Templates

A template is an ordinary note used as a starting point. When you create a note from a template, these placeholders are filled in:

Placeholder Becomes
{{title}} The new note's title
{{date}} Today's date, such as 2026-09-25
{{date:FORMAT}} Today's date in your own format
{{time}} The current time, such as 14:30
{{cursor}} Where your cursor starts

Anything else in double braces is left as it is. Templates are plain text with no scripting, so they can't run code.