I think this you need to change in the template. The above template has the "children:" field, I believe this is what you need to modify. Assuming you are using the above template, "daily" and "journal" entries need to be swapped to achieve what you are looking for.

> You can add an optional language identifier to enable syntax highlighting in your fenced code block. Is there a list of these language identifiers somewhere?

that was what I was trying :/ But when doing so

Dendron -> Create daily journal

still remained as daily.journal.y.MM.dd

When I create a daily.schema.yml and put the following in it it works as expected, I get the template, but it's named daily.journal.2021.12.21.yml

yml
version: 1
schemas:
  - id: daily
    title: daily
    desc: ""
    parent: root
    children:
      - journal
  - id: journal
    title: journal
    desc: ""
    parent: root
    children:
      - year
  - id: year
    title: year
    pattern: "[0-2][0-9][0-9][0-9]"
    children:
      - month
  - id: month
    title: month
    pattern: "[0-9][0-9]"
    children:
      - day
  - id: day
    title: day
    pattern: "[0-9][0-9]"
    template: templates.daily

But when changing the file into below, the template stopes working and the file is still named daily.journal.2021.12.21

yml
version: 1
schemas:
  - id: journal
    title: journal
    desc: ""
    parent: root
    children:
      - daily
  - id: daily
    title: daily
    desc: ""
    parent: root
    children:
      - year
  - id: year
    title: year
    pattern: "[0-2][0-9][0-9][0-9]"
    children:
      - month
  - id: month
    title: month
    pattern: "[0-9][0-9]"
    children:
      - day
  - id: day
    title: day
    pattern: "[0-9][0-9]"
    template: templates.daily

I'm guessing I fundamentally misunderstanding something here. How does the

Dendron -> Create Daily Journal

know it should pick up the daily.schema.yml file? does it go by the

daily

id?

I don't know how Dendron does it's magic. Possibly the file name is the problem. I have my schema named "journal.schema.yml", my template is journal.template.daily, and my schema is just like your second one, but I don't have the "daily" in there. I get this to work as journal.yyyy.mm.dd, which is what I wanted. You could try renaming the schema file to journal.daily.schema.yml or something like that.

@User Right, but I'm specifically talking about the shortcut "Create Daily Journal" Creating a note with cmd+L works just fine

Yep, I use Ctrl + Shift + J for this, but it's the same command

@User right, so the Lookup menu does work as expected. But not the "Create Daily Journal shortcut

I guess I'm just satisfied that I have the behavior I was looking for. I get different behavior for Ctrl + L than I do for Ctrl + Shift + J. I don't think I'm of much help to you here as I don't understand enough of your issue, nor a lot about Dendron. I've been using it for a few months now and I have it working for me in a way I'm happy with.

Good luck

@User I'm very new to dendron so I might just be missing something obvious as well. I'll keep playing with it and see what it gets me

It very well may be that the "daily journal" command always creates a daily.journal.... file.

I guess my main question is. How do you create a new journey note for a specific date, without having to type out the entire date

what I found convenient with the daily journal was that it'll type that out for you. Instead of you having to type it all out

That should work with the template and schema from above. Mine does fill out all of the above. I just press the keys shortcuts and press enter, dendron fills out the note name for me every time

Try cmd+shift+J

That seems to be dependent on where in the tree view I'm at? and only gives me a journal.2021.12.21 instead of a journal.daily.2021.12.21

I'm so confused 😄

we use https://prismjs.com/ for syntax highlighting. you should see identifiers there

daily-journal customization

Default setting for pasteImage.path is:

"pasteImage.path": "${currentFileDir}/assets/images",

It forces having image names unique in the entire vault, what do you think about default template to be:

"pasteImage.path": "${currentFileDir}/assets/images/${currentFileNameWithoutExt}",

(I know you don't like folders though :D) Other option is to have prefix appended to an image file (pasteImage supports it), but then in textbox while saving full name the prefix is also shown/editable which for me is annoying as I have to edit only 2nd part.. hmm any other ideas?

haha, folders have their place. but as an implementation detail 🙂 for images, we actually want to move to just having a guid, the name being an implementation detail. we are also adding file links and file references to make it easier to refactor/update: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/3472226a-ff3c-432d-bf5d-10926f39f6c2.html#file-links

Is this a validator problem or a useless property?

validator issue, we will fix it in today's release

I understand that the note hierarchy is created with dots, but for templates and schema files, is possible to have it own folders? similar to assets?

Not exactly, but you could create a separate vault just for templates and schemas. They will continue to apply to notes from all vaults.

wait, so does that means template.memo.md and memo.schema.yml will conflict if exist in more than one vault?

No, schemas with the same name in different vaults are separate and will not conflict. Dendron keeps track of which vault they came from, but as far as I know they (can) apply to notes in all vaults.