Journal and templates

The Journal gives you one page per day, titled the way you like and started from the template you choose. Each entry can show Your day: the meetings, follow-ups and people that belong to that date, read live from the rest of Dhaga. Templates let you reuse the structure of any page, with variables for dates, titles and questions you answer when you use them.

Open today's entry

Open Journal in the Pages sidebar. Today's entry opens, and is created the first time you open it. "Today" follows the time zone in your Dhaga settings, not the server's, so an entry written late in the evening lands on the right day.

Move between days with Previous day, Next day and Today. The month calendar beside the entry marks every day that has an entry; click a day to open it. Every entry has its own address, /app/pages/journal/2026-10-12, so you can link to a day or bookmark it.

Your day

The Your day block shows, for the entry's date:

• Meetings: your Dhaga calendar and the calendars you connected.
• Follow-ups due that day.
• People you added, met (at an event or in a meeting) or logged a note about that day.
• Events on that day.
• Birthdays and dates that fall on it.

It reads all of this live each time you open the entry, and never copies it into the page. Reschedule a meeting or tick off a follow-up and the block changes with it. The built-in Journal template includes it; add it to any page with /day (or /today, or /journal). Each section shows up to 8 rows with an "and N more" link. The block shows only on your own Journal, and if a connected calendar can't be read, it says so and shows Dhaga's own calendar.

Choose a title format and template

Open Journal settings to choose:

• Title format: pick a preset or write your own. The presets are YYYY-MM-DD (the default, as in Obsidian), dddd, MMMM D, YYYY, ddd D MMM YYYY, D MMMM YYYY, MMMM Do, YYYY, DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY. A custom format uses the format tokens below.
• Template for new entries: the built-in template (with Your day) or any of your templates.

Settings apply to entries created from then on. Existing entries keep their title and content.

Add to today's entry from anywhere

This address adds text to the end of today's entry:

https://www.dhaga.app/app/pages/journal/today?append=Called%20Sam%20about%20the%20pilot

Use it from a bookmark, a launcher or a shortcut on your phone. When you open it yourself, the text is added straight away. When another website sends you to it, Pages shows the text and asks before adding anything, so a link elsewhere can't write into your Journal. Up to 5,000 characters are added; anything longer is cut, and Pages tells you.

To create a page the same way, use /app/pages/new?title=Trip%20ideas&content=Lisbon. See URL actions.

Use a template

Any page can be a template. Choose Mark as template from its menu, or manage them all on the Templates screen. To use one, choose New page → From a template… and pick it. The new page is a copy; editing it never changes the template.

The Gallery has starting points for the people side of your work: Person dossier, Company research, Event recap, Reading list, Meeting notes, 1:1, Weekly review and Project plan.

Template variables

Write these in a template's title or body. They are filled in when you use the template, never when you write it.

Questions: a template with {{prompt:Who is this about?}} asks the question in a dialog before creating the page. Answers go into the page as plain text, up to 500 characters each.

Templates never run code. They cover what Obsidian's Templates and the common parts of Templater do, without scripts.

Date and time formats

Formats use the same tokens as Obsidian and Moment.js. Put words you want kept as they are in [square brackets].

For example, [Week] W, YYYY gives "Week 41, 2026".

Related

• Database templates, including ones that repeat.
• Generate a page from a template with AI.