Daily Notes gives you one day at a time. The Journal gives you all of them at once — a single scrolling page where every day flows into the last, so you can write today, glance up at yesterday, and keep a running thread without ever opening a page. Think of it as a river of your days rather than a stack of files.
Open it with the 📔 Journal button in the toolbar, from Go ▸ Journal, or with
⇧⌘J. The caret lands in today, ready to type. To leave, click ✕ Exit journal
in the header (or open any other page).
A day in the Journal is its daily note — the very page ⌘T opens. Write in
the stream and you're writing that note; open it later from the Calendar and your words are
there. Nothing new to file, no second copy. The Journal is just a different window onto the
notes you already keep — which means links, tags, templates, versions, and export all
work exactly as they do everywhere else.
Today sits at the top; scroll down and you walk backwards through time, oldest at the bottom. Each day is a card — a bordered sheet with the day's name in serif ("Today" and "Yesterday" keep their familiar names) and the date in quiet small caps. Today's card wears a warm tint so the present is unmistakable. Only days you've written on appear — empty days don't clutter the river — but today is always there, waiting with a blank line even before you've typed a word. Start writing and the day quietly becomes real.
Under every day's header sit two tiny instruments: MOOD, five faces from rough to great, and ENERGY, five pips for how much was in the tank. One tap records the day (tap again to clear); on an unwritten today, the first tap creates the day, same as typing would. They're deliberately effortless — no prose required, no streak to keep.
The payoff comes later: the trackers are stored as tidy metadata on the day's page (never mixed into your writing), and Ask your journal and ✦ Reflect read them beside your words. "How was my week?" can now notice that your energy dipped the two days you wrote about staying up late — the pattern lives in the taps, the story lives in the prose, and the AI finally gets both.
/ commands, drag-to-reorder blocks — a Journal day is a full page, not a
cramped text box.Wandered far down the river? The ↑ Today button floats up whenever you scroll away — one click snaps you back to the top and drops the caret in today.
Click the calendar icon in the header and a month opens beside the writing column. Days you've written on are marked, today wears a distinct highlight, and ‹ › walk the months. Click a day and the Journal glides to it if it's already in view, or opens it if it isn't — either way you land on that day, ready to read or add to it, even one long past. Click the calendar icon again to tuck it away.
Press ⌘F (or type in the header's search box) and the stream narrows to just the
days that mention what you're looking for — a name, a project, a phrase. Clear it and the
full river returns. It's the fastest way to see how an idea has run through your days.
At the top of today, MojoPad quietly surfaces a few things worth your attention — each one dismissable, none of it in your way:
The idea cards are yours to run or silence, in Settings ▸ Journal: Resurface old notes worth revisiting and Pitch ideas beyond your notes ship on; Look for places my own notes disagree is off until you turn it on.
Click ✦ Ask in the Journal's masthead and the AI drawer opens in its Journal scope, pointed at your daily notes and nothing else. Ask in plain language: “how was my week?”, “when did I last mention the boat?”, “what patterns keep showing up this month?”. Time phrases in the question choose which days are read — “in June”, “last week”, “since April” — and without one, your recent couple of months are read. Every written day in the window goes in (a long stretch is read in condensed stages — watch the status line), and the answer cites the days it drew from as chips you can click to jump to that day. It's the same drawer as everywhere else, so follow-ups keep their context and personas apply; see Ask your wiki — the AI drawer for the full tour. Where ✦ Reflect below hands you a fixed weekly synthesis, ✦ Ask answers the question you bring.
(Reflections read your mood and energy taps alongside your words — see Mood and energy above.)
Click ✦ Reflect and choose a stretch — this week, this month, or the last 90 days. Your local AI reads those days and hands back a short synthesis: the themes running through them, the open loops still waiting, and a thing or two worth sitting with. Like it? ↳ Insert into today drops the reflection straight into today's note, so a weekly review becomes part of the record instead of a passing glance. (Reflect uses your on-device model — see Local AI. No model, no cloud, no reflection; your days never leave your Mac.)
An idea worth keeping rarely arrives while you're in the Journal. So today is a drop box you can reach from across the app:
⇧⌘P command palette opens a quick box for a
one-line thought without leaving what you're doing.Everything you send arrives in the same place — today's page — whether the Journal is open or not.
Under a day you'll find Linked references — every page that points back to that day,
each with a snippet of where it's mentioned. Anywhere you've written the date (a task dated to
it, a meeting note, a page that links [[Thursday, June 11, 2026]]), it gathers here,
turning the day into a hub you can navigate backwards from. Click a reference to jump to
it. It appears only on days something actually points to.
Leave the Journal open overnight and it notices when the day turns: come back and today has rolled forward on its own, a fresh blank day waiting at the top. As always, "today" is figured in the time zone you set in Settings ▸ Locale & Dates, so travelling never forks your journal.