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.
See it for yourself:
- 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.
A worse, well known example
- You create your first-ever daily note, and: What the heck?!?!, there is this weird "<% tp.file.cursor(0) %>".
Special (reported) cases
Note titles disappear
The Issue:
- 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
Explanation and how to solve:
- 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!
- Disable the CSS-Snippet "time-garden-hide-frontmatter" -> like here
- Switch "properties in document" to "show" -> optimal for merged Time Garden
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