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Type @today, @yesterday or @tomorrow and then a space, a punctuation mark or Return, and the word becomes the actual date:
In the editor the date is drawn as a small capsule, lit from the top, with the @ stepped back inside it. The capsule pulses once as it appears. Review draws the same capsule on the rendered page. The file holds plain text — @September 5, 2026 — so it reads correctly in any other app and survives a round trip through anything.

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ISO dates

Typing a date in the form @2026-09-05 gets the capsule as well, without expansion. Both forms are recognised anywhere in a line, though a shortcut word only expands when it stands on its own, at the start of a line or after a space, a parenthesis or a bracket.

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Why

Daily notes. @today at the top of a note, or @tomorrow next to a task, is faster than looking at a calendar, and the result is legible forever. The Timelapse is built on the same idea from the other direction: a note per day, named for its date.

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Inside code

Dates inside inline code or a code block are left as plain text, without the capsule. The shortcut words still expand there, since expansion happens as you type; if you want a literal @today in a code sample, type the date form or paste the word in.