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Obsidian Daily

by Luca Nerlich

View and manage Obsidian daily note todos from the Omarchy bar. Set vaultPath or OBSIDIAN_VAULT_ROOT.

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Install
$ omarchy plugin add https://github.com/LucaNerlich/obsidian-daily-qs --enable
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obsidian-daily-qs

GitHub Release Omarchy marketplace

Omarchy Quattro bar widget for today's Obsidian daily note todos: view open items, add new checkboxes, and toggle them from a bar panel.

<img width="1108" height="1472" alt="preview" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/91530fad-7796-4dfe-aebb-4eb24683d2b8" />

Requirements

  • Omarchy Quattro (Quickshell-based shell) on Linux
  • An Obsidian vault with the Daily notes core plugin configured
  • A supported architecture: x86_64 or aarch64 (arm64)
  • Vault path via the vaultPath bar setting or OBSIDIAN_VAULT_ROOT for the graphical session — see Set the vault path

Daily note location and date format are read from .obsidian/daily-notes.json (folder, format, optional template), relative to the vault root. An optional archive location can be configured via the archiveFolder bar setting — see Archived notes.

Architecture

  • Rust backend (obsidian-daily-qs): resolves today's note, parses markdown checkboxes, adds/toggles items, streams JSON snapshots. Released as per-architecture static musl binaries (linux-x86_64, linux-aarch64).
  • QML frontend (omarchy/): bar-widget with a details panel. Left-click opens the panel. Architecture detection runs once at startup via uname -m.
obsidian-daily-qs watch ──(JSON lines)──▶ BarWidget ─▶ Panel
obsidian-daily-qs add|toggle ──(JSON line)──▶ BarWidget

Install

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/LucaNerlich/obsidian-daily-qs.git --enable

Update / remove:

omarchy plugin update luca.obsidian-daily
omarchy plugin remove luca.obsidian-daily

If the bar still shows an error right after an update, run omarchy restart shell once. Omarchy hot-reloads plugin QML in place; a full shell restart is the reliable way to drop a stale in-memory widget (for example after the 1.7 backend rename).

The plugin bundles statically linked musl builds of its backend for x86_64 and aarch64 (omarchy/bin/obsidian-daily-qs-<arch>), plus an unsuffixed omarchy/bin/obsidian-daily-qs shim that execs the matching arch binary (so a hot-reloaded pre-1.7 widget keeps working). The widget prefers the arch-specific ELF via uname -m. If that cannot start, it tries obsidian-daily-qs on PATH once (cargo install --path .); if both fail, it latches to an error state instead of restarting forever. On unsupported architectures the bar shows ⚠ arch with a tooltip explaining the problem.

Set the vault path

Prefer the bar setting (no Hyprland env needed):

omarchy bar set luca.obsidian-daily vaultPath '/home/you/Documents/notizen'

Or set it from the panel when the widget shows the setup empty state.

The backend also accepts --vault <path> and still reads OBSIDIAN_VAULT_ROOT when vaultPath is empty. The Omarchy shell runs as a child of Hyprland, so an export in ~/.bashrc does not reach it unless you also set the graphical session env:

Option A — Hyprland env (per-session, applies without logging out):

-- ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.lua
hl.env("OBSIDIAN_VAULT_ROOT", "/home/you/Documents/notizen")

hyprctl reload && omarchy restart shell

Option B — systemd user environment (applies at next login):

# ~/.config/environment.d/obsidian-vault.conf
OBSIDIAN_VAULT_ROOT=/home/you/Documents/notizen

Archived notes

If you move old daily notes out of the live daily-notes folder (for example into dailies/_archive/2026/), tell the widget where they went via the archiveFolder bar setting:

omarchy bar set luca.obsidian-daily archiveFolder 'dailies/_archive/YYYY'
  • The value is a folder pattern relative to the vault root, using the same moment-style tokens as the note format (YYYY, YY, MMMM, MMM, MM, M, dddd, ddd, DD, D). The formatted note file name is appended, so with format: "YYYY-MM-DD" the example above resolves 2026-08-20 to dailies/_archive/2026/2026-08-20.md.
  • The live path always wins: when a note exists in both places the live one is used, and new notes are always created in the live folder.
  • Archived days are fully usable: the week strip shows their open/done counts, and toggling, adding, editing, indenting, undo and open-in-Obsidian all work on the archived note in place.
  • Leaving the setting empty keeps the default behavior of only looking in the live daily-notes folder.
  • The backend also accepts the pattern directly as --archive-folder for CLI use, e.g. obsidian-daily-qs status --date 2026-08-19 --archive-folder 'dailies/_archive/YYYY'.

Usage

  • Bar: Obsidian mark + done/total for today. Left-click opens the panel; middle/right-click opens the note in Obsidian.
  • Panel:
    • List todos; click a row (or move the keyboard cursor) to select it, click its checkbox or press Enter/Space to toggle. Hover a truncated row to see the full text.
    • Sort order is file order by default, so new todos append to the bottom. Cycle newest-first / uncompleted-first / alphabetical with the sort button next to Hide done, or set sortOrder (default, newest, openFirst, alphabetical). Parent-child hierarchy is preserved in every order.
    • Nested todos render indented; Shift+Enter adds under the selected row.
    • New items go under the configured insertHeading (or todoHeading when insertHeading is empty). When both are empty, the built-in Tasks/Todos section is used, falling back to the first todo list (usually at the top). Spacing is copied from that list, or from recent daily notes when starting a new one.
    • Right-click a row to delete it or move it to tomorrow (children included). Hovering (or selecting) a row also reveals an inline ✕ delete button.
    • e edits, x deletes, [/] outdent/indent, u undoes the last mutation (undoing a defer restores both days; a tomorrow note created by the defer is deleted again).
    • Week strip jumps between days; ◀ / ● / ▶ also navigate.
    • Search: /; open-only toggle; carry over; open in Obsidian. Carry over shows on today when a previous daily note still holds open todos — it uses the most recent such note within the last 30 days (weekend/vacation gaps), nearest first; repeat to drain older backlog. Opening a missing day creates its note from the configured daily-note template.
  • Settings (omarchy bar set luca.obsidian-daily …): vaultPath, archiveFolder, openOnly, sortOrder, todoHeading, insertHeading, hideWhenDone, hideWhenEmpty.
omarchy bar set luca.obsidian-daily openOnly true
omarchy bar set luca.obsidian-daily sortOrder newest
omarchy bar set luca.obsidian-daily todoHeading Todos
omarchy bar set luca.obsidian-daily insertHeading Inbox

todoHeading filters which todos the bar and panel show. insertHeading names the markdown heading new todos are added under (e.g. Inbox); when empty it follows todoHeading, and when both are empty new todos use the built-in Tasks/Todos placement. Missing headings fall back silently, so existing notes keep their behavior.

CLI

export OBSIDIAN_VAULT_ROOT="/path/to/vault"
# or: obsidian-daily-qs --vault /path/to/vault …
obsidian-daily-qs status
obsidian-daily-qs status --date 2026-08-19 --heading Todos
obsidian-daily-qs watch
obsidian-daily-qs add --text "Ship plugin"
obsidian-daily-qs add --text "Inbox item" --heading Inbox
obsidian-daily-qs add --text "Nested" --under-line 12
# Widget path: pass sensitive fields on stdin so they never appear in argv
printf '%s' '{"text":"Ship plugin"}' | obsidian-daily-qs add --stdin
obsidian-daily-qs toggle --line 12
obsidian-daily-qs edit --line 12 --text "Renamed" --expect-text "Old"
printf '%s' '{"text":"Renamed","expectText":"Old"}' | obsidian-daily-qs edit --line 12 --stdin
obsidian-daily-qs delete --line 12
obsidian-daily-qs defer --line 12
obsidian-daily-qs defer --line 12 --heading Inbox
obsidian-daily-qs indent --line 12
obsidian-daily-qs outdent --line 12
obsidian-daily-qs undo
obsidian-daily-qs week
obsidian-daily-qs carry-over
obsidian-daily-qs carry-over --heading Inbox
obsidian-daily-qs open

Development

cargo fmt --all -- --check
cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo test --all-targets
node omarchy/model.test.mjs
omarchy plugin validate .
qmllint -I "$OMARCHY_PATH/shell" omarchy/BarWidget.qml omarchy/Panel.qml

make bundle rebuilds the musl backends for x86_64 and aarch64 into omarchy/bin/ (Linux). make verify-bundle is the marketplace gate. Any edit under src/, Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, or rust-toolchain.toml requires a fresh make bundle in the same change.

Releasing

  1. Bump Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, manifest.json, and CHANGELOG.md.
  2. Run make bundle then make verify-bundle on Linux.
  3. Open a PR; wait for the marketplace bundle CI job to be green.
  4. Merge, then tag vX.Y.Z matching the crate version.

License

Apache-2.0.