Daily Startup
I have a Daily Startup workflow shortcut that runs automatically every day at 8 AM. It creates my Daily Note, and several related daily health logs (diabetes, meals). It also creates a separate Daily Journal that I’m exploring to encourage more journaling (rather than just a Journal section in my Daily Note). I use Templater templates for the Daily Note as well as the other Notes. I currently open the Daily Note in Obsidian, but not the other health notes (they’re linked from the Daily Note anyway).
Currently, this is triggered with a Calendar alert using an Automator script that runs the shortcut. I have also created a Keyboard Maestro macro that has a timer trigger to run the shortcut. I’m exploring how to exploit Keyboard Maestro workflows for my shortcuts (and also have experimented a little with Alfred workflows too).
I’m using Data Jar to store my common Obsidian variables for my vault name as well as several paths such as Templates. I also had to create several date utility shortcuts to get today’s ISO date (“yyyy-MM-dd”) and create a month path (“yyyy/MM”) for my Daily Note file path in Calendar/Daily. I call them from my other shortcuts and return the text in the shortcut result.
I also have Daily Startup pinned to my Shortcuts menu bar, in case it doesn’t get triggered automatically for some reason. I have to make sure I check “Allow Running When Locked” under Privacy. It took me a little while trying to get these all working correctly with lots of trial and error experimentation (while also learning more about shortcuts).