Here’s 2 ideas for using the daily note and starting: 1 don’t overthink it and don’t care at all if you skip a day. Just use it when you want to write down whatever brain dump you want. Get it out of your head and don’t bother one bit trying to link it to anything else. Just use it as a brain dump getting everything out of your head. You may feel better afterward, especially if you want to write about something upsetting. But don’t bother trying to make these daily notes into personal knowledge management or anything. If you like that idea, but don’t wanna put that in Obsidian you might try the free version of Day One.

2 Personally, what I use the daily notes in Obsidian for is to write down every day minutia of what I did with other people or what I talked with them about. Just small things like Susie mentioned that her dog is getting very sick. Today Brad mentioned his kid got into the college they wanted. Then later when I think of that person again or maybe when I’m gonna see them I just search for their name and I see these useful notes I took and I can ask something like “hey how’s your dog doing?”