_Date Notes_ allow you to leverage your existing daily notes structure. You can enable Date Notes globally in the settings, under Date Notes. For example, Breadcrumbs can add edges from `2022-01-01` to `2022-01-02`, to `2022-01-03` using the [[Edge Fields|field]] you specify.
```mermaid
flowchart LR
1(2022-01-01) -- next --> 2(2022-01-02) -- next --> 3(2022-01-03)
```
> [!TIP]
> Under the hood, Breadcrumbs takes the date of the current note and _adds one day_ to it. So the field you choose should reflect the "next" nature of this builder (as opposed to pointing to the date _before_ the current one).
## Settings
- **Enable**: Toggle Date Notes on or off
- **Field**: Choose the [[Edge Fields|field]] to use for the edges
- **Date Format**: Choose the date format you use for your daily notes (e.g. `YYYY-MM-DD`)
- Refer to the [Luxon documentation](https://moment.github.io/luxon/#/parsing?id=table-of-tokens) for the full list of date formats
- **Stretch to Existing**: If there is a gap from one day to another, should the next note be the unresolved one in _one day_ or should it "stretch" to the next resolved (existing) note?