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grberk

Need to tweak this daily note shortcut to add a tag to the note

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I'm about 95% where I want to be on this Daily Notes shortcut. It will create a new daily note with the current date as the note title formatted as yyyy-MM-dd, and create it if it doesn't exist, or open it if it already exists. I look for the tag and the date and open, or create.

In the red section of this screenshot, I want to create a note with today's date formatted yyyy-MM-dd as the note title, but instead of putting it in the Daily Notes folder, I want to tag it with #daily-notes instead, and put the note in my Cabinet folder. I want to create a Smart Folder for any notes with the #daily-note tag so I can have these in different locations and show from the Smart Folder instead of one static folder.

https://preview.redd.it/eenn3ly3arlg1.png?width=639&format=png&auto=webp&s=11d5be2872ee4f522016962217970c1a4f5a51d1

Here is a link to the shortcut that works without tagging:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0569f5e7181e444ea94b99ab2abcadd2

I can't seem to make the tagging of the note work for this. I tried to add a tag in a separate step, but it's prompting me for a note, so I have something wrong. Anyone have a tip or idea how to integrate that into this workflow? I'm not real good with Shortcuts with my own stuff yet.

Posted Feb 26, 2026, 3:21 AM UTC

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