Journal

The Journal is for reflection — daily check-ins, gratitude, and longer thinking. Where notes are reference material, journal entries are dated and carry a mood and an entry type, so over time they become a record of how things actually went. It lives under Personal → Journal.

The header shows your total entries and word count, plus a contribution heatmap of the days you’ve written — a quiet record of your writing, with no streak to keep alive.

Start an entry

Pick a starting template — each opens a new dated entry with helpful section headings:

Template	For
Blank	A clean page
Gratitude	Noticing the good and who you share it with
Daily	A quick morning, midday, or night check-in
Reflection	Going deeper on what matters and where you’re headed

Your own saved templates appear alongside these, each with the icon you chose. A new entry shows up in the list once you start typing.

Make your own template

Open Manage templates (the gear button above the entry list) and choose Add. Give your template:

• a name and an icon — tap the icon button to pick any emoji,
• a Type — Free, Gratitude, Daily, or Reflection (this decides which writing prompts its entries suggest),
• an optional title pattern — type {date} or {week} and it fills in automatically, and
• an optional content structure — start lines with ### to lay down section headings.

Your template then shows up under New entry with its icon, and every entry you start from it carries that same icon. You can edit or delete a template here anytime — deleting one keeps the entries you already wrote; they simply fall back to their base type (the Type you chose).

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Already wrote an entry you’d like to reuse? Open the More menu (⋯) in its top bar and choose Save as template to turn its layout into a reusable starting point — give it a name, an icon, and a Type, and it joins your other templates.

Mood, kind, and prompts

In the entry’s top bar you can set:

• a date,
• a mood — from rough to great (it also tints the entry),
• a kind — the built-in types (Free, Gratitude, Daily, Reflection) and any of your own templates, picked from one menu, and
• a tag — once you’ve created journal tags (see below).

Stuck on what to write? Open Writing prompts (the sparkle button) for starter questions tailored to the entry’s kind, and click one to drop it in. More swaps in a fresh set.

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Need to disappear into the writing? Hit Focus mode to clear away the surrounding chrome and keep just the page. A small Exit focus mode button waits in the corner when you’re done.

Tags and attachments

Tag an entry. If you’ve created journal tags — manage them with the tag button above the entry list — a tag picker appears in the entry’s top bar. Pick one to label the entry, then use the tag filter in the list to pull up everything on that theme.

Attach files. Each entry has an Attachments area beneath what you write — add photos, PDFs, or any file you want to keep with that day. There are three ways to add them:

• Drag and drop one or more files straight onto the area,
• Paste a screenshot you’ve copied (the area floats a “Drop files to upload” hint while you drag), or
• click Add and pick files (you can select several at once).

Images show as thumbnails you can open; other files appear as a row you can download. Hover a file and click the trash icon to remove it.

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Drag-and-drop, paste, and multi-file selection work anywhere you see an attachments area — tasks, notes, calendar events, trips, and health records, not just the journal.

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Choose a notebook style — Default, Lined, Literary, or Handwritten — to change how the page looks while you write. It’s purely for feel, and it’s remembered per entry.

On this day

When the entry you’re reading shares its date — same month and day — with entries you wrote in other years, an on this day callout appears near the top, labelled “1 year ago”, “2 years ago”, and so on. Open today’s entry and it surfaces what you were thinking on this date a year or more back — a quiet way to notice how far you’ve come.

Find past entries

The list groups entries by time — Today, Yesterday, This week, Last week, then by month — and you can filter by kind or by tag. The kind filter includes the built-in types and your own templates (each appears as a pill once at least one entry uses it), so you can pull up, say, every “Deep Work” entry at once. Like notes, entries save automatically and show a word count and reading time.

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Want a copy outside the app? Open the More menu (⋯) in an entry’s top bar and choose Print / Export PDF — a clean, print-ready copy of the entry opens in a new tab with your browser’s print dialog, where you can print it or save it as a PDF (allow pop-ups for the site if the tab doesn’t appear).

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Capturing a journal: line in Quick capture for a day that already has an entry appends to it rather than starting a new one — so a running daily log just keeps growing.