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Alfred workflow that generates a Roam daily notes template

This workflow allows you to use a snippet trigger with Alfred to generate daily notes. The top-level attributes should be replaced with habits you would like to track, and can use a an attr-table to build a quick habit tracker.

It also provides a space for Morning Pages. This is a space to start your day with some intentionality. You should have a separate page of questions and writing prompts, and drag blockrefs of 2 or 3 questions or prompts to answer for the day. My Morning Pages page looks like this:

• Questions
  • What am I excited about?
  • What am I worried about?
  • Is there anything I’m forgetting?
  • What would I like to write about?
  • What’s bothering me?
  • What do I need to prioritize?
• Prompts
  • I love it when
  • I hate it when
  • When I wake up
  • When I go to sleep
  • If I could change one thing, it would be
  • Next year I want to
  • I miss

At the end, it provides a space for a retrospective/time sieve (as described by Roam forum user mattbrockwell in this thread) to review your notes from the past. You can open these pages in the sidebar and potentially gain new insights into who you were, what you found important, and perhaps even something you’re working on in the current day.

Installation

To install, all you need to do is download the Roam Daily Notes.alfredworkflow file from this repo and open it with Alfred. Define the snippet trigger you want to use (I like \\xrdn) and use it whenever you want to generate your daily notes. The script that generates the template is also available to look at in this repo.

Output

Video demo

An example output looks like this (with the query results filled in, of course):

[[Daily Mantras]]
Meditate:: ---
Gym/Exercise::
Read for pleasure::
Read for learning::
Greek::
Bass::
## Retrospective
    One week ago: [[December 27th, 2020]]
    Four weeks ago: [[December 6th, 2020]]
    Twelve weeks ago: [[October 11th, 2020]]
    365 days ago: [[January 4th, 2020]]
## [[Tasks]]
     {between: [[today]] [[today]]}}}}
## [[Overdue Tasks]]
     {between: [[yesterday]] [[January 1st, 2021]]}}}}
## [[Completed Tasks]]
     {between: [[today]] [[today]]}}}}
## [[Tracking]]
    [[Sleep Score]]
        
    [[Morning Energy]]
        
    [[Cups of Coffee]]
        
    [[Afternoon Energy]]
        
## [[Journal]]
    [[Morning Pages]]

Use #Archive to mark TODOs as no longer relevant, or #Future to mark them as due in the future (along with the future date).

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