Date Property Backlinks lists the notes dated for each daily note

Name: Date Property Backlinks
Author: theluckystrike

See every note whose date property matches the day, in a live Bases view inside your daily note.

Install in Obsidian

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MIT · no telemetry · core features free

A daily note shows its matching meeting and reading notes in an embedded Bases view. — Open larger

version: 1.2.0
released: 2026-10-21
downloads: 13
review: Passed
health: Excellent
license: MIT
listed for: Desktop, Mobile
obsidian: 1.13.4 or later

The directory takes these platforms from the plugin manifest. The automated tests run in the desktop app only.

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About Date Property Backlinks

You keep daily notes and give other notes a date property, and you want to see them on that day.

Add one shared Bases view to your daily notes template, or turn on the automatic view for existing daily notes. Date Property Backlinks reads the date from the daily note file name and lists the notes with a matching date property. Your source notes get no new links or properties.

The shared view shows other matching notes when the daily note changes.

Free features

Set up the daily notes template once

Choose a template in core Daily notes or Periodic Notes, preview the change, then add one shared Bases embed. Every new daily note from that template includes the view. Running setup again adds no duplicate.

The setup previews the daily notes template before it adds the shared embed. — Open larger

Show existing daily notes automatically

Turn on the automatic view to cover daily notes that already exist. It appears below the note and leaves the note text unchanged. Notes that already hold an embed are skipped.

An existing daily note shows matching notes without an inserted embed. — Open larger

Match dates and date-times

Choose a date property in the view settings, and the default is note.date. A date-time matches on its local calendar date, and a list matches when any item has the target date. Empty, invalid and other dates do not match.

The same Bases view shows the notes for the date of a second daily note. — Open larger

The free view matches one date property for one day; week and month rollups, extra properties and ranges need Pro.

Pro features

Pro costs $5 a month or $15 one time through GitHub Sponsors. One sponsorship turns on Pro in every plugin that has it.

Roll up a week or month Pro

Pro adds week and month rollups, extra date properties, and inclusive date ranges. Choose Monday or the Obsidian locale as the week start. A start and end range matches when it overlaps the selected window.

A monthly view shows exact dates, another date property and a note whose range overlaps the month. — Open larger

See how Pro works

Set up Date Property Backlinks

needs

Obsidian 1.13.4 or later
The core plugin Bases, turned on

steps

Enable the Bases core plugin and set your template in Daily notes or Periodic Notes.
Run Add to the daily notes template, check the template path and preview, then add the view.
Create a daily note from that template to see the matching notes.
Choose your date property in the Bases view settings.

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Why this exists

A forum request asks for backlinks in a daily note from a date property link. Without a query, a daily note does not list the notes that carry its date.

Read the request

How it compares

Date Linker: Date Linker writes daily note links into a managed frontmatter property. Date Property Backlinks shows the matching notes in a live Bases view and adds no link value to them.
Dataview or a Bases filter: A Dataview query or a core Bases filter with this.file can also list notes for a daily date. This plugin sets up the view without a query, handles date-time and list values, and does not need Dataview.

Questions about Date Property Backlinks

Why is the view empty?

Check that the Bases core plugin is on and that you opened the embed from a daily note. The file name must match the selected date format. Then choose the date property that your notes use.

Can I use a daily note with a different name format?

Yes. Set Daily note date format with Moment tokens. The default format is YYYY-MM-DD.

Does this change my date properties?

No. Setup creates a Base file and adds a template embed. The properties of your source notes stay the same.

What happens if the Base file name already exists?

The command does not replace a file that it did not create. Rename the existing file, then run the command again.

Network use

Until you select Sign in with GitHub, the plugin makes no network requests. Sign in and the sponsorship check contact github.com and api.github.com, and a successful check is reused for 7 days. It sends no note content, file names or other vault data, and it has no telemetry.

Read the full network disclosure