Diary
One entry a day, moods, Markdown and tags.
Writing an entry
The Diary section holds one entry per day, with a title and a body.
The editor has an edit and preview switch in the top bar. The full formatting is visible when you open the entry.
The list shows a plain-text preview on a single line, so formatting does not appear there.
The editor
The editor opens full screen, one entry at a time. The text takes all the available height. Mood and tags sit in a compact bar at the bottom that stays reachable with the keyboard open, and the word count is below it.
If you leave with unsaved changes, the app asks Leave without saving? and offers to save. Discard throws the changes away. If you changed nothing, it asks nothing.
Emptying an entry completely deletes it, so the day no longer counts as written.
Searching the diary
The page with all entries has a search field, Search in entries, that looks through titles and text.
On this day
On this day is a card on the diary page. It shows the entries you wrote on the same date in past years, one year back or several.
It appears only when there is at least one, so in your first year of entries you never see it.
Moods
You can attach a mood to each day. There are twelve, plus No mood as the first page of the carousel:
- Amazing, Happy, Good, Calm
- Neutral, Tired, Bored, Anxious
- Sad, Angry, Stressed, Sick
You can set it from the quick picker under today’s card and from the home screen, without opening the entry.
The artwork is your choice: Classic emoji or Aurora, the mascot.
Settings → App → Behaviour → Interface → Diary faces
Moods and diary entries cannot be recorded on future days.
Markdown formatting
Markdown works in the body of an entry. It does not apply to the title, nor to the preview in the list.
Supported: bold, italic, headings with # and ##, bulleted and numbered lists, quotes and links. Links open in your external browser.
The app has a syntax reminder, Markdown formatting, inside the editor.
Tags
Tags are not written inside the text. They are a separate field in the editor, below the body, with the same picker used by habits.
They are the same tags: one set shared between habits and diary entries.
You can filter the diary by tag.
Locking the diary
The diary can be protected on its own, without locking the whole app. See App lock for how the setting works.
When the diary is locked, the protection also covers the Diary view inside the Calendar.