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. 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.
/ 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:
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.