Obsidian is a free and open-source application for taking notes and managing your digital life. One of the great features of Obsidian is its ability to use templates to quickly and easily create new notes. You can create a template for anything, from a daily journal entry to a meeting agenda.One common thing you might want to add to a template is today’s date. This can be useful for keeping track of when notes were created, or for creating a daily log of your activities.There are two ways to add today’s date to a template in Obsidian.
The first way is to use the `{{date}}` variable. This variable will automatically be replaced with today’s date when you create a new note from the template.To use the `{{date}}` variable, simply add it to your template. For example, the following template will create a new note with today’s date at the top:““““`## Daily Log Date: {{date}}“““ Notes: “`The second way to add today’s date to a template is to use the `date()` function. The `date()` function takes a format string as its argument. The format string specifies how the date should be formatted.For example, the following template will create a new note with today’s date formatted as “YYYY-MM-DD”:“`## Daily Log Date: {{date(“YYYY-MM-DD”)}}“““ Notes:
