Clone a note to a calendar ?

[davidszerman]

Hello

Maybe I think wrongly

I want to use the daily journal. I will create several children to a day

• workouts
• visits I made
• etc...

Than I thought of cloning the workout note of the day to m'y calendar note "my workouts" in order to have an easy look at all my workouts but I have to define each time the date of the note...
Not easy...

Is there a better way of doing it ?

Thanks

[dosubot[bot]]

@davidszerman, your instinct to clone workout notes is exactly right — cloning is the intended mechanism for this in Trilium. The Day Notes documentation explicitly mentions that cloning lets a note appear in multiple places in the tree, so besides appearing under a day note, it can also be categorized elsewhere. That said, cloning one-by-one can get tedious. Here are a couple of better approaches:

1. Use a label + saved search (recommended)

Instead of manually cloning to a "My Workouts" folder, tag each workout note with a label like #workout. Then create a Search note with the query #workout. This acts as a live, auto-updating collection — every note tagged #workout shows up there automatically. Since day notes already carry a #dateNote label with the date value [1], you can sort or filter by date without entering it manually each time.

2. Use a ~dateTemplate for the day note

You can set a ~dateTemplate relation on your calendar root (the note with #calendarRoot) pointing to a template note that includes a pre-structured "Workouts" child [1]. When Trilium creates a new day note, it applies that template automatically, so you get the workout sub-note created for you each day without manual setup [2].

The template approach also supports attribute inheritance — if you put a promoted attribute like #workout on the template's "Workouts" child, each day's workout note inherits it, making the search note from approach #1 work seamlessly.

The saved search approach is the least manual overall: once set up, you just tag each workout #workout and the collection updates itself.

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[davidszerman]

Saved search is the thing

Thanks