Module guide
Journal
Daily journaling tied to your tasks: context for future-you.
Overview
A lightweight daily writing surface. Entries are written in a rich-text editor, stored as Markdown, and saved when you press Save. Beside the entry, the screen lists the tasks you completed that day. It is great for an end-of-day shutdown, a blockers log, or a private executive-function record.
Highlights
The capabilities worth knowing before you dive in.
Important to know
Limits, permissions, and sharp edges to keep in mind.
- Entries are private to their author: no screen or API route shows one member's entry to another, administrators included. They are stored as ordinary text and are not end-to-end encrypted. The workspace-wide data export that an owner or administrator can request never includes journal entries. Each person can export their own entries from their personal data export.
- Deleting an entry through the API removes it at once. There is no trash and no restore.
How to use it
The primary workflow, start to finish.
- Open it with `g j` or click Journal in the sidebar.
- Type freely; `/` opens the slash menu for headings, quotes, code blocks, bullet, numbered, and to-do lists, dividers, and links. Press the Save button, or the keyboard shortcut for saving, to store the entry.
- Use Daily shutdown (/shutdown) to review the day, then open the Journal link on that page to write the entry.
FAQ
- Can an administrator read my journal?
- Not in the app: the journal screens and routes show you only your own entries, and that includes administrators. The workspace-wide data export that an owner or administrator can request leaves journal entries out entirely, so nobody else receives your entries that way either. Your own entries are in your personal data export. Entries are stored as ordinary text rather than end-to-end encrypted, so treat the journal as private within the app rather than as encrypted.
- Can I restore a journal entry I deleted?
- No. A deleted entry is removed at once and there is no trash, so export anything you want to keep before you delete it.
- Are the tasks I completed attached to my entry?
- No. The side panel shows a count and up to five titles of the tasks you completed on the day you are viewing, so you can read them while you write, but they are not stored in the entry. Write down the ones you want to keep.
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