---
title: Daily Desk
description: Open daily and weekly notes from the redesigned calendar navigator
---

Daily Desk is a calendar navigator for daily journaling and weekly planning. It opens as a sheet, so you can reach it without leaving the page you are using.

## Open the Calendar

Tap the calendar button in a page header. You can open it from Library, Inbox, Search, Tags, Properties, Templates, Attachments, or Settings.

When a daily or weekly note is already open, tap its date title in the editor to reopen the calendar around that note.

## Browse a Month

Daily Desk shows one month in a fixed six-week grid. Use the arrow buttons or swipe horizontally to move between months. Tap **Today** to open today's daily note.

- A dot under a day means its daily note already exists.
- A dot beside a week number means that weekly note already exists.
- Today has a visible outline, and the selected date is highlighted.

Tap a date to open its daily note. Tap a week number to open its weekly note. If the file does not exist, Octarine creates it before opening the editor.

The calendar follows **Settings → Date & Time → Week Starts On**.

## Jump to a Date

Use **Jump to a date…** for natural-language dates such as:

- `today`
- `tomorrow`
- `3 days ago`
- `next Friday`
- `January 2027`

Select the result to open that date. Date phrases also work in the Command Bar.

## Files on Disk

Daily notes use an ISO date filename:

```text
Daily/2026-04-15.md
```

Weekly notes live in a nested folder:

```text
Daily/Weekly/2026-W16.md
```

The editor displays friendly dates and week ranges, while the stable filenames make the notes easy to sync and use outside Octarine.

#### Quick Answers

### How do I open Daily Desk on iPhone?

Tap the calendar button in a page header. Daily Desk opens as a sheet over the current page.

### Does tapping an empty date create a note?

Yes. Octarine creates the corresponding daily or weekly Markdown file and opens it.

### Can I jump to a date with natural language?

Yes. Search Daily Desk or the Command Bar for phrases such as **tomorrow** or **next Friday**.