I created a sample shortcut on a meditation journal. This leads to the discussion of automating Day One entries in a “prompt style” with a new journal entry generated out of Siri Shortcuts and used to create a Day One entry.

Much Love for Day Oneĭay One is also friends with Siri Shortcuts, which opens you up to lots of potential automation, although I would like more. Day One can integrate with third-party apps, like Instagram and Swarm. We both approve of Day One’s automation tools with things like IFTTT along with several built-in features (like the activity feed) that ease the process of journal entry creation so you can focus on your precious words. Last year I bought a year subscription to Day One, and I’m digging it. We start out talking about the idea of journaling and why automation can help. We are nerds so while the focus of this episode is journalling, it’s really about automating the process so you can get more efficient at your navel-gazing. Get out your artistically crafted paper notebook and favorite fountain pen as we talk about journaling in Automators episode 14. I’m testing out several journaling workflows right now, and this update came just as I’m testing out Day One in earnest-more on this to come. They’ve also added Sign in with Apple, greatly simplifying sign in on your devices.

Getting photos and videos into your journal just got easier. Want to export as CSV? It does that now too. You can export out of a specific journal but only entries with one tag, but no entries with a different tag.

The PDF Export feature has a lot more options than it used to. If you tap on a calendar event, it opens a new entry with that event title as the Day One entry title. Previously called the Activity Feed, the new Today View ties in other data available to Day One, like location data, calendar events, and daily photos. Yesterday marked the release of Day One, version 5.

Apple pages templates for journal