Edit that draft to connect different beginning line characters to the actions you like best. The first time you run the “Process” action, it creates a draft named “Quick Journaling settings”. Keyboard shortcut: Command + Option + P (for “Process”) Configuration This lets you process any draft, which is handy if you forgot to process yesterday’s journal before going to bed. Note that this doesn’t automatically go to the Today’s Journal draft first. This processes each line of the current draft as described earlier. Keyboard shortcut: Command + Option + A (for “Append”) This is handy for gathering up a bunch of separate drafts that you’ve created with Siri, through your watch, and so on into your main journal draft.
This action appends the contents of the current draft as a note to Today’s Journal, then deletes the draft. Keyboard shortcut: Command + Option + G (for “Go”) If it doesn’t already exist, this action will create it. This always takes you directly to the journal draft with today’s date. Played tour guide for our visiting friends. Played tour guide for our visiting friends.Īfter processing, I’ll have two new OmniFocus actions (“Buy a birthday card” and “Fill the van with gas”), an event on tomorrow’s calendar, and a Day One diary entry saying: Got donuts for breakfast. Got donuts for Batting cages tomorrow at 1:30 After processing, the draft is archived and I’m ready for the next day.įor example, by the end of the day I might have: # Journal for Lines starting with a hyphen are collected and sent to Day One as a diary entry.Įverything else is ignored.Lines starting with an at-symbol are sent to Fantastical and turned into calendar events.
Lines starting with an asterisk are sent to my OmniFocus inbox as new actions.At the end of the day, I want to process that draft: The main idea is that each day I want to create a new draft to act as that day’s journal, and I want to be able to get back to it as quickly as possible later. This gives me something similar to bullet journaling except in the format that works best for me. I love the idea behind bullet journaling, and the idea behind a paper notebook sounds attractive to me, but in practice I love my electronic systems too much. Write stuff in Today’s Journal and act on it later
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