User's guide
Day
Day shows one date on a timeline: your meetings and the entries you wrote, in the order they happened, so you can see the whole day at a glance.
The timelineMeetings and entries share one column of hours
Your meetings show as filled blocks at their times, and the entries from your Journal show as dots on the same hours. You see a meeting and what you did during it in one place.
Scale at the top stretches or shrinks the hours, so a packed morning opens up and a whole day fits one screen. A browser remembers where you left it. The strip of days across the top changes the date. Tap any day to jump to it, or step a day with the arrows either side. A line marks the current time while you are on today, and a Today button appears beside the strip once you leave it. Untimed entries appear under the hours at the end of the day, since an entry written while you were looking at some other date has no time of day.
Meetings come from your Google Calendar, connected at Settings → Account → Calendar: one button, Google's own permission page, done. The same place then lists the calendars that came back, so you tick the ones you want on your Day and name the life area each one falls under. Until it is connected, the day simply shows what you wrote yourself and nothing else.
Opening a markTap anything on the timeline to see it whole
Every block and dot on the timeline is a mark, and a tap opens it whole. Several entries in the same minute collapse into one mark with a count, and opening that mark shows the rest as well, spaced below the one you opened. A row prints its own time only when it differs from the one at the top.
An entry you wrote opens with everything you put in it, not the single line the timeline had room for. The time at the top of the sheet is the control for changing it: tap it, long-press it, or right-click it, and it opens an editor. An entry with a start and no end opens on one typed Starts field, with buttons beside it that move the time an hour or five minutes either way, and + Add an end time under that. Adding an end is what turns a point into a time log. An entry that already has an end shows an Ends field as well, with its own set of the same buttons, how long the entry ran printed beside the heading, and Clear end to take the end away. An untimed entry shows Set a time where its time would be, and that is how it gets one. Delete, under the entry, removes it after a confirm, and for six seconds an Undo on the day can take it back. Open in Journal, beside it, goes to the day the entry is filed under, which is where you change its words, its areas and the task it links to.
A meeting opens with where it is and the notes on its invitation, and a call has a Join the call link. Three words mark where you stand with it. Going confirms you plan to attend and leaves the meeting on the day. Done records that it happened by turning it into a time log with its real title and times, so the block becomes logged time. Decline takes it off the day, cancels the task behind it, and answers no in Google, after six seconds in which Undo takes it back. Google emails nobody. Your answer is on the event, where the organizer sees it if they look. For a meeting you own there is no invitation of yours to answer, so declining it only clears it here.
A status change and a row in the System column open to be read, with no actions under them. Both belong to the app's own record rather than your writing, so both are read-only.
Logging time by drawingDrag an empty stretch of the hours to log your time
Drag down an empty stretch of the hours and the Day draws a block across it. Let go and the Day asks what you were doing, and the answer saves as a time log. On a phone, hold still for a moment and then drag, since the pause is how the phone knows you mean to draw rather than to scroll. A press with no drag makes a point, an entry at that minute with no end. On a phone, a draw on the Points column makes a point however far the finger travels, since that column holds points.
The four columnsEach kind of row has its own column
Every row beside the hours belongs to one of four columns.
- Points — the entries you wrote at a moment.
- Time logs — the blocks with a start and an end, your own logged time and your meetings.
- Changes — what changed, at the time it changed: a task, a stream, a document or a chapter being made, deleted or shelved, and the field edits underneath.
- System — the rows a machine left: a device reporting something, and anything the agent or the app wrote on its own. The morning sleep reading and the log of a completed meeting are machine-written too, but they are about your day, so they appear among your own marks instead.
A phone shows one column at a time, with these four names as tabs across the top, and you can swipe sideways between them. A wide screen shows all four side by side in the same order and drops the tabs, so the names are drawn on the phone alone. On a wide screen you tell the columns apart by what is in them.