Foundation
Journal
Short reflective sentences, grouped under categories you invent yourself. Keep them as a timeless collection of things you want to remember — or give them dates and read them back as an everyday diary.
The idea
The Journal is where you write things down one sentence at a time — a realisation, a pattern you keep noticing, something you want to say to yourself later. Each sentence lives under a category you create: Relationships, ADHD, Self-improvement — anything that captures a pattern in your life.
There's a reason it's sentences and not essays. In the app's own words: "Writing the feeling down moves it out of the amygdala and into the prefrontal cortex — that's the point of this page." Naming a thing in plain words is what turns a swirl into something you can look at.
No formatting, no moods or tags — just your categories and the sentences inside them. A date is the one optional extra: add one and a sentence becomes a diary entry; leave it off and it stays a timeless kept phrase.
Two ways to read it
A By category / By date toggle at the top switches how the Journal is grouped — the two halves of what this page is for.
By category (the default) is a single reading column: each category is a section with its icon, a hairline colour margin down the side, the category name, and its sentences set in a serif made for reading. This is the static panel of phrases you keep.
By date regroups the same sentences into a diary — newest day first, each day a heading, and beneath it the day's dated sentences, still grouped by category so each keeps its colour margin. Sentences you never dated collect in an Undated group at the end.
Finding and focusing
As the Journal fills up, the magnifier above the entries opens a search field that filters both views as you type. The caret on any category header collapses it to a single line, and that choice is remembered between visits. A long category shows its first 20 sentences with a Show all link for the rest.
Categories
Tap + New category: name it, write its first sentence (required — a category is born with its first sentence, and you can give it an optional date), and pick an icon and optionally a colour. You can keep up to 11 categories; at the cap the button steps aside — a nudge to merge or prune rather than multiply.
Adding sentences
Every category has a small "+" button: type your sentence and add an optional Date if it belongs to a day. Cmd/Ctrl+Enter submits, Escape cancels.
The Journal holds up to 1000 sentences total across all categories. The cap is deliberate — this is a distillation, not an archive; if you're at 1000, some older sentences have probably done their job and can go.
Short beats complete. A sentence you'll actually reread — "I spiral when I'm under-slept, not when I'm busy" — is worth more than a paragraph that captures everything and gets skimmed.
Editing and deleting
Tap any sentence to rewrite it or change its date (clear the date to make it timeless again); tap a category's name to rename it or change its icon or colour. Delete lives inside those edit dialogs, and deleting cannot be undone — deleting a category removes it and all its sentences, so the confirmation spells out how many go with it.
A category can never be empty. If you delete a category's last sentence, the confirmation warns you that removing it will also delete the category — and the whole card disappears with it.
Reordering sentences
In the By category view, order within a category is yours to set — drag the grip on a sentence row, or focus it and press ArrowUp / ArrowDown. (The By date view is always ordered by day.)
The dashboard Journal card
The opt-in Journal card on the dashboard shows three of your sentences, picked fresh each day — things you once knew clearly, resurfacing on mornings when you don't. Leave it off and nothing surfaces on its own.