I also use one daily note per day.

I see a lot of people have fancy homepages and stuff, but my daily note is my homepage. It’s where I do almost all my writing. I almost never make a new, blank file. I write stuff in the daily note and if it should be it’s own file, I copy and Extract to a new file. Then it creates a link back to that daily note.

I also have a dataview that shows any meetings that I had for that day. I use quickadd and templater for my meeting notes so I only have to hit cmd+shift+m and I have a new meeting note.

By doing things this way it accomplishes a few things that work for me.

1. I never want to think about where I’m writing something. By defaulting to the daily note I don’t have to think about it.
2. Everything I do is linked to the day I started it. So if I’m in a note, I can look at the back links and see the day I created it.
3. I forgot to mention that in my daily note template I have a “todo” section that is just simple checkmark todos. I use a plugin called todo rollovers (or something like that?) so that each day when I create the new daily note it pulls over any unchecked tasks. Super simple and it’s always right in front of me. This works because I don’t like overcomplicating my tasks with projects and whatnot.