Daily note bugs

Common visual glitches and weird states in Time Garden daily notes, and the fast fixes for each.

This tip may save you:

A big tip!

Time Garden is a huge system, so it can sometimes show you some source code that you shouldn't see.

Often, just clicking outside of the chart you clicked falsely into does the trick.

Or, when something is still looking weird, just deleting the note that looks weird, and creating it again, should resolve the issue.

You just wanted to click the awesome navigation bar at the top. But now, you see this code. Simply click a line somewhere else / outside of the codeblock, and it should disappear again !Screenshot 2025-11-18 at 15.54.23.png

This happens because you're accidentally checking "under the hood" of one of Time Garden's elements. Totally fine to do so.

You create your first-ever daily note, and: What the heck?!?!, there is this weird "<% tp.file.cursor(0) %>".

You create a new daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly note, and it comes out totally empty. No banner, no buttons, no template. Just a blank page with a title.
This started happening out of nowhere, everything worked fine before.

The community plugin Templater (which powers all of Time Garden's note creation) changed in version 2.23.0: its switch "Trigger Templater on new file creation" became a per-device setting, and updating Templater silently turns it off. With that switch off, new notes never get filled with their template.
Time Garden v1.1.2 fixes this for you. The Time Garden plugin now re-enables that switch automatically on every device you use. If you have BRAT installed (it comes with every Time Garden vault), the plugin updates itself on your next launch, see Updating Time Garden. And if you turned that Templater switch off on purpose, don't worry: Time Garden respects a deliberate opt-out.
Manual fix if you're still on an older Time Garden version:
1. Open Settings, then Community plugins
2. Open the options of Templater
3. Turn ON "Trigger Templater on new file creation"
New notes work immediately after that, no restart needed. Any blank notes that were already created can simply be deleted and created again.

Whatever you do, in each daily, weekly, monthly, etc. notes of Time Garden, the title is not there. (In Writing View)
But if you switch to Reading View, the title is actually shown. Weird right? !Screenshot 2025-11-19 at 13.36.37.png

This is most likely because 2 things are happening
- In the Editor Settings you've set "properties in document" to hidden.
- In the Appearance Settings settings, you've enabled the CSS-snippet "Time-Garden-Hide-Frontmatter".
This combination will hide the titles! And we don't want that. So you got two options. Option 1 being better if you use Time Garden alone, Option 2 is better for when you Merged Time Garden!
1. Disable the CSS-Snippet "time-garden-hide-frontmatter" -> like here
2. Switch "properties in document" to "show" -> optimal for merged Time Garden