How I Journal Every Day

Carl, great video. My question for you is as follows: do you use the Premium version of Day One?
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Thanks for posting this. I was curious if you still used Day One. BTW cercle on YT just posted a great above and beyond set.

nice video, I do mine on paper mainly but I also use Evernote with quite the same template than Day One, because I'm not only on mac all the time. Then I print to put in with some document of the day, tickets or map.... I also use typewriter the same way (write then sick it on my journal)

Great video! What are your thoughts on using Evernote instead? It seems like the functionality is pretty much the same, but I am not a current Day One user.

Hi Carl,

I am kind of power user of Day One. I use the app very similar to you, every morning I start the entry with one headline, and text to the day before. I tried to attached minimum one picture, but in most days more than three. This comes after a little while, when my wife Evelyn said why do you only use one picture every day. There is a saying one picture equals 1000 words. When we are with our grand children, then it will be one video every day, I dictate most of my entries, and I am busy to put in my hand written journals from past year. This will probably be a never ending story, as I have over 70 years to cover. The start for me is my original birth certificate, and on some days, I have over 20 years of content, stories, sometimes links, sometimes photos for me the best option of the journal is “on this day”. Hi share the information with my wife, she will sometimes add some of her thoughts and so I will improve on my content all the time. The app also offers book printing, which I have not tried so far, because I’m afraid of content mistakes.

I started journaling using the Day One app this year. This video was so helpful and taught be how to use templates! Now I can create my own prompts. Thank you!

Indeed very helpful and inspiring. After taking a course on your website back in 2019, I feel ready to start journaling now. I'm wondering where this will bring me. It looks like a very interesting addition to the other productivity courses you've set out. Thank you for sharing this.

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very helpful, thank you Carl!

I just subscribed to your channel. I enjoy your content. A constructive idea 💡 for you is to zoom in the content more so that folks don’t have to squint to read the content on your screen. Thx!

I was hoping you were going to say how you saved your emphera from your old journal. You had postcards/event cards/etc in your old journal. What did you do to put them into D1? Did you just take photos of that and then toss the original item? I do like D1, I'm new, streak count of 38 (so very new!) but I'm trying to figure out what to do with all the fun stuff I was saving. Stamps, notes from Dad, postcards, etc.

Hi! Which bottle are you using? Thanks

Good vid

I am sufficiently inspired to start journalling - thanks to you. Are the features in Day One such as Templates available on Android? Thanks in advance.

Can you group the entries?

Do you pay the yearly premium? Is it worth it? I’d prefer free one. Do you have any recommendations?

Thank you so much 😊. I Finally can decide which apps to use, been wanting to try journaling as a Self Love Act and Improving Focus and Productivity. Now.. Lets Begin..

Sie sprechen langsam und der Untertitel macht es mir möglich Sie gut zu verstehen. Danke für das Video

Awesome information, thanks Carl! Do you recommend bullet journaling in Day One or in Evernote? And do you know any good book about the bullet journal method or do you keep it simple like it's shown in the video?

The tasks in Day One are rather habits, so no tasks that are in the task manager or tasks that could be assigned to a project?
I asked this in a comment to another video, basically Day One is (among other things) your Habit Tracker?
In some apps this is also called "Daily Notes" and means that you assign a note to a specific date (Craft does this for example).

Thanks for your video of how you journal with DayOne. Jim Rohn --- the best. Attended his one day workshop in 1991, Washington DC. I still have the notes I took from the class. Love his quotes; still apply them today in my personal and business life.

I journal with my fountain pens. I don’t think I can completely let them go! Did you give up analog journaling altogether? I’m not sure how I can fully journal through Day One?.

No offense, but you're part of the world's problem, not part of its cure.

Are you still using Day One or have you switched over to journaling in Notion?

What type of stone is in the necklace you're wearing? Shungite?

I'm curious why you have different journals for years, exercise, etc. Aren't you able to use tags to search by year, exercise, etc? Also, I know you're a Todoist aficionado. Have you started using this for your daily checklist and to-do list instead of Todoist?

Thanks for sharing

How did you make the boxes to check off stuff?

Is there a spelling or grammar checker within the ONE A DAY website for the Mac? I can't find one. It doesn't seem to work with any of my extensions either.

This was very helpful, Carl. I downloaded the app after hearing Ali Abdal talk about using this app and now that I've watched your video, I have a better idea of how this could be useful for me.

Thanks! I’ve been struggling trying to journal using paper journals for years. I didn’t realize DayOne offered the ability to use multiple journals, and I like how you use separate ones per year, as well as separate ones for fitness. Great ideas like using screen shots from your fitness app. Appreciate you sharing this!

Keep our memories through journal in digitally is so good for long term thanks i also confused about which journal apps are best had asked to chat gpt and it also suggest me this app in top thanks sir.❤

Is the premium worth it for just the web version and not the app?

Very similar to what the Notes app can do except the calendar right?

I have recently made my own journal app called memoiri, maybe you could take a look at it :) my focus was on simpicity and privacy everything is stored locally

Can I download or transfer the old journal info to Day One please?

day 1 is the 1st, methinks, and the best in terms of links and vids. wish i could’ve kept. had 2 much stuff. got tired of offline journaling.

Which Journal Book is this did you use and we see in the Video?

I prefer journaling in the morning as well. I have a daily gratitude journal(paper) and weekly Day One that I use a customized template.

Is there any other app any one can suggest for journaling?

I am still trying to see how journaling helps to get things done. I can see it as a good brainstorming tool, but for some of us that get overwhelmed with email and too many tasks, how are we now supposed to find time to write down how we feel or what we ate for breakfast? I am not being cynical here... just skeptical. I would love to see how journaling leads to better planning and organization. I still cannot envision the connection.

I like to keep everything in one journal, I understand the idea of all the different journals but I think the searchability of a digital journal allows for the ability to keep everything in one place. If anything journals by year are ok. But I would use tags inside on the one journal instead or all the different ones. Having all those journals and organization is a bit cumbersome for many.

what's the apps name ?

when i first used the apps, i find it easy to use. However, I will not ever use such digital apps anymore. Becos when there is problem it is so difficult to get someone to troubleshoot, and i ended up unable to access my journals!! Imagine all the notes made for weeks, months ....all inaccessible!!

But what is presented here is very useful on how to journal....thanks

As a windows user when I saw only google play, and Mac/app store I disappointed. I hope we have a similar program for windows too.

I have different plataforms, my phone I phone, I love my chromebook and I spend some time on my windows computer, how can I get it in all?

I have been using DayOne for many years and love it.

I truly started journaling in the beginning of 2023 and now I’m constantly recording my thoughts, moments and specials events. It truly declutters your mind and people should try it out.

Which app is this?

I'd love to see how you journal on paper and also what kind of notes are in your commonplace book.