Daily Entries
A dated note per day. memrynote creates one on demand and remembers where you left off.
Opening Today
Open Journal from the sidebar, or use ⌘+⇧+E if you've remapped it that way. By default memrynote opens today's entry.
If today's entry doesn't exist yet, it's created on first focus, seeded by your default journal template.
Writing
The same BlockNote editor is used for journal entries — slash commands, markdown shortcuts, wiki links, attachments, AI inline. Anything you can do in a note works here too.
Journal entries also share note review tools: selection comments and the aligned right review rail. See Comments.
Use Add property or Add tag above the date heading to organize a daily entry before writing.
Header Actions
The journal header carries the same controls as a note:
- Reminder — set a reminder to revisit the day. Works on a day you have not written in yet.
- Bookmark — bookmark the day. Bookmarking an empty day creates its entry first.
- Mind map — show the entry's headings as a mind map, when the canvas feature is on. The editor stays open underneath, so undo history survives.
- ⋮ menu — local graph, find, version history, export, insert template, save as template, full width, copy path, reveal in Finder, open in default app, attachments, journal settings, and Delete entry.
Actions that need a file on disk (version history, export, local graph, file actions, delete) appear once the day has an entry. Rename and move are not offered: a journal file's name and folder come from its date and your journal settings.
Width
Journal pages follow the global Width setting in Settings → Editor. To override it just for the Journal, use the Full width toggle in the journal ⋮ menu — it widens the writing column edge to edge and applies to every journal page until you turn it off.
Stats Footer
If enabled, the editor footer shows:
- Word count
- Character count
- Entries this week / month
Toggle from Settings → Journal.
Navigating Days
| How | Action |
|---|---|
| Header arrows | Previous / next day |
| Left / right arrow keys | Previous / next day when the editor is not focused |
| Date breadcrumb | Click for the date picker |
| Day Panel | Calendar grid; click any date |
| Calendar nav | Day / month / year views |
When the journal editor is focused, arrow keys stay inside the editor. Press Esc to leave the editor, then use the left / right arrow keys to move between days.
See Calendar Navigation for the larger views.
Tasks Written in a Day
A task you create inside a journal entry — from the /task block or by turning a checkbox into one — is related to that day. Opening it from the task's Related section takes you back to the entry it came from, including for journal files Memry first found on disk rather than creating itself.
Wiki Linking from Today
You can wiki-link to other journal entries: [[2026-05-07]] resolves to that day's entry. Backlinks work the same as for notes.
What If I Skip a Day?
Nothing. memrynote doesn't pad missing days with empty entries. Calendar heatmaps show genuine activity, not noise.
Sync
Journal entries sync as Yjs CRDTs (same as notes). Two devices writing on the same date during a flight merge cleanly when they reconnect.
A day's tags and properties changed on another device update the file on disk without touching the entry's text. To write in your journal on the phone, see Journal on iPhone.
If two devices create same-date entries with different IDs (rare, but possible during long offline stretches), memrynote keeps both and renames one to disambiguate. See CRDT & Notes Sync for the underlying behavior.