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# Timelapse and daily notes
> A note for every day, and a corridor to walk back through them.
## Today's note
⌥⌘D opens today's note. If it does not exist yet it is created in a **Daily** folder at the top of the library (made on first use), named for the day — `Friday, September 5, 2026.md` — with that date as its heading. Press ⌥⌘D tomorrow and you get tomorrow's. The command is in the File menu, the ⌘K command bar and the sidebar's Timelapse view.
A daily note keeps its date as its file name even if you change the heading; the usual name-from-the-first-line rule steps aside for it.
## The corridor
⌘2, ⌘D, or the **Timelapse** row in the sidebar. Today's note lies flat and readable at the front. Earlier days recede up the corridor behind it, each tilted further back, smaller and fainter than the last, toward a vanishing point below the header. Every day is the same size, whatever it holds — its first lines, on a plate the same height as every other — and each dissolves at its lower edge before it reaches the day in front of it, so no two ever touch. The label above each card says *Today*, *Yesterday*, or the day and date.
**Scroll** to walk back through the days: scrolling up moves into the past, scrolling down comes back, and lifting your fingers settles on the nearest day. **Click** a card to open that note. **Esc** returns to wherever you were.
When there is no note for today yet, a dashed card at the front offers to start one.
## What appears here
Only notes in the Daily folder whose names are dates. Anything else you put in that folder stays in the sidebar and out of the corridor, so a note that happens to live in `Daily` will not be mistaken for a day.
## With dates in the text
[Date tokens](/editor/dates) are the other half of this: `@today` at the top of a note or beside a task gives you the same legible date inside the text, in plain Markdown any other app will read.