Organizing Your Entries

Use titles, tags, mentions, search, and calendar without creating maintenance work

Organizing Your Entries

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Write a Useful Title

A short title makes list and timeline browsing easier. Name the event, decision, or theme rather than trying to summarize the entire entry. An untitled entry can still be saved and revisited.

Keep Markers Consistent

Use #tags for recurring topics and @mentions for people, places, or projects. Marker names are one word made from letters, numbers, or underscores.

A small stable vocabulary is usually more useful than tagging every detail. For example:

Talked with @sam about the garden plan. #home #planning

Tags and mentions become available as filters after entry analysis extracts them. The app does not currently provide autocomplete, bulk rename, merge, or a separate tag manager, so edit affected entries when a marker changes.

Search First, Filter Second

Start with a plain-language search term. Add a visible time, feature, tag, or mention filter when the result set is still broad. Search is fuzzy and does not require operators such as AND, before:, or tag:.

Active filters remain in the URL and appear as chips. Bookmark the resulting Entries URL when you want to revisit the same view; there is no separate Saved Searches screen.

Use List, Timeline, and Calendar Deliberately

  • List is a compact catalog.
  • Timeline emphasizes chronological reading.
  • Calendar shows the month containing each journal date.

Calendar does not add mood overlays, streak statistics, reminders, or exports. Use it as a visual index of saved entries.

Review and Correct

During an occasional review:

  1. Clear all filters so the complete catalog is visible.
  2. Search for alternate spellings of an important marker.
  3. Edit entries whose titles or markers are no longer useful.
  4. Star an entry when the current view supports that action.
  5. Export the cloud journal as JSON when you want a portable backup.

Entry deletion is permanent. Do not use deletion as an archive strategy.

Treat Insights as Entry-Level Context

The Insights tab reflects one entry at a time. It may provide a summary, intentions, sentiment, recommendations, or other supported sections. It does not calculate a cross-journal mood dashboard. Use generated text as a prompt for your own review, not as a definitive interpretation.