When a Route saves text to a Folder Destination, Quick Draft works out a note name from the folder’s New note name pattern. If that note already exists, your text is added to it. If not, a new note is created, from a template if one is turned on.
This one setting gives you Daily Notes, Weekly Notes, atomic notes, or notes named after their first line.
Set the pattern
- Open the folder Destination (Settings → Destinations).
- Under New notes, tap New note name (it shows Current pattern: …).
- Build the pattern in the picker. Tap tokens to add them, and check Format preview to see the result.
- Save.
The default is YYYY-MM-DD, which gives one note per day.
What a pattern can contain
| Part | Example | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Date and time tokens (Moment.js) | YYYY-MM-DD | 2026-09-23 |
| Fixed text in square brackets | [Meeting] YYYY-MM-DD | Meeting 2026-09-23 |
/ to create subfolders | YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD | 2026/09/2026-09-23 |
{{title}}: the first line of your draft | {{title}} | Call the plumber |
{{auto}}: an AI-generated title | {{auto}} | Plumbing repair reminder |
{{ts}}: Unix timestamp in milliseconds | YYYY-MM-DD-{{ts}} | 2026-09-23-1790000000000 |
Notes:
- Missing subfolders are created automatically. Existing folders are reused.
- See Date formats for every date token and Tokens for the rest.
Atomic notes
Atomic notes keep one idea per note. Include something unique in the pattern so each save creates its own note: {{title}}, {{auto}}, {{ts}}, or a pattern down to the second such as YYYY-MM-DD HH-mm-ss.
Name notes after their first line
- Set New note name to
{{title}}. - The first line of your draft becomes the file name. Markdown is removed, and characters that aren’t allowed in file names are replaced.
- Optional: turn on the Remove {{title}} Route action, so the first line isn’t repeated in the note body.
Titles are cut to the Maximum title length in Settings → Note content (10–100 characters, or No limit; default 50).
Let AI name the note
Use {{auto}} to get a 1–5 word title written by AI. It needs an active plan or one of your own AI sources (see AI overview). If AI can’t run, Quick Draft falls back to the first line and records why in History. You can change the instructions under Settings → AI → Prompts → Title generation (AI prompts).
Weekly and Monthly Notes
| Pattern | Result on 23 September 2026 |
|---|---|
gggg-[W]ww | 2026-W39 |
YYYY/[W]-w/YYYY-MM-DD | 2026/W-39/2026-09-23 |
YYYY-MM | 2026-09 |
YYYY/MMMM | 2026/September |
To save into yesterday’s note, next week’s note and so on, add a Time shift.