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Work · February 9, 2025

Daily-notes.nvim – fuzzy time journal and planning plugin

I wrote an nvim plugin that does fuzzy time parsing on plain english dates to help you create + organise periodic notes. I use it daily at work and home. Hope it's helpful to others. :) note: not using NLP, LLMs or 'true' fuzzy parsing as per academic literature; just normal recursive descent parsing

Daily-notes.nvim – fuzzy time journal and planning plugin launched on February 9, 2025 with 63 votes, #452 of 5,999 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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Daily-notes.nvim is a Neovim plugin that parses plain English date descriptions to create and organize periodic notes for journaling and planning. It uses recursive descent parsing to interpret fuzzy time references, allowing users to quickly generate time-based note files. The plugin is designed for people who maintain regular journals or planning notes within their editor and want faster, more flexible date entry without relying on natural language processing.

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An nvim plugin to enable creating periodic notes. Contribute to fdavies93/daily-notes.nvim development by creating an account on GitHub.

The canonical repository for this project is on Codeberg . Please file any issues at that URL. An nvim plugin to enable creating periodic notes for journals and planning. Inspired by the Obsidian feature of the same name and Journal.nvim . -- install from local repo -- this is just an example; you can just as well use empty opts {} { dir = " ~/daily-notes.nvim " , opts = { writing = { root = " ~/zettelkasten/daily-notes " } } } -- install from github repo { " fdavies93/daily-notes.nvim " , opts = {} } Note that this plugin is only tested on my personal Arch Linux for now. It should work on other UNIX systems (i.e. WSL, MacOS, BSD), but this isn't guaranteed. Windows probably won't work due…from github.com

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