Calendar & Daily Notes

The Calendar provides a temporal view of your vault. It acts as the navigation hub for your Daily Notes, habit tracking, and scheduled tasks.

The Calendar Dock View

Access the calendar from the left or right side dock, or run Calendar: Open calendar view from the command palette.

Open Existing Note: Clicking any day with an existing daily note opens that note in your active editor.
Create New Daily Note: Clicking a date that lacks a note prompts Basalt to create it instantly using your configured naming pattern and daily note template.
Visual Activity Dots: Dots beneath calendar dates indicate note creation, journal entries, or pending task deadlines on that day.

Configure your daily notes workflow in Settings → Daily Notes:

Setting	Default	Description
Daily Notes Folder	`Daily`	Directory where newly generated daily notes are stored
Date Format	`YYYY-MM-DD`	Filename naming pattern (e.g., `YYYY-MM-DD` or `YYYY/MM/[Daily-]YYYY-MM-DD`)
Daily Note Template	`""` (blank)	Path to a template note used to seed new daily notes

In Settings → Calendar, you can customize display preferences:

First Day of Week: Choose auto (uses system locale), Monday, or Sunday.
Show Week Numbers: Displays ISO week numbers along the left edge of each calendar row.

Command	Action
`Daily notes: Open today's note`	Opens or creates today's journal entry
`Daily notes: Open yesterday's note`	Jumps to yesterday's entry
`Daily notes: Open tomorrow's note`	Jumps ahead to tomorrow's planned note