Another great hack from a Notion user is to use a Notion "bug" to automatically input today's date in a date property using templates. It's not something you can normally do: with database templates, you can select a specific date to be added when the template is used, but you can't make that date be today.

Thanks to Ben Smith's sneaky hack, you can do it.

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All you have to do is:

1. Open or create a database template
2. Transform your Date property into a Text property
3. Type "@Today" into the text field and select "Date when duplicated"
4. Transform your property back into a date property

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And that's it. Now, whenever you use the template, today's current date will be used. It's super handy for many things, especially journaling 📝