When Obsidian opens for the first time, it will ask you to create a vault. A vault is just a folder on your computer where your notes live.

1. Click Create new vault
2. Give it a name — something like My Notes or Daily
3. Choose a location (your Documents folder is fine)
4. Click Create

You’re now inside your vault. The left panel shows your files, the right is where you write.

Obsidian comes with a Daily Notes plugin built in — it just needs to be turned on.

1. Open Settings (gear icon, bottom left)
2. Go to Core plugins
3. Find Daily notes and toggle it on
4. Close settings

You’ll now see a calendar icon in the left ribbon — click it to open today’s note.

A template gives every daily note the same starting structure so you never stare at a blank page.

1. Create a new folder in your vault called Templates
2. Create a new note inside it called Daily Template
3. Add whatever structure you want, for example:

## Today's focus
- 

## Notes
- 

## Done today
- 

Now go back to Settings → Daily notes and set the Template file location to Templates/Daily Template.

From now on, each new daily note will start with this structure.

To make Obsidian open straight to today’s note when you launch it:

1. Go to Settings → Daily notes
2. Toggle on Open daily note on startup

Now every time you open Obsidian, you land directly on today’s page — no hunting around.