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Journal

A personal journal built around a shelf of diaries: each notebook is a diary of its own, with one entry per day written in the same rich editor used by Notes. A diary can be encrypted by the vault or shared with your team — and each one has views for timeline, calendar, media and map. This page is the overview; each topic has its own page below.

Overview

The Journal opens on the "My diaries" shelf, where every diary appears as a physical notebook with its own cover, color, emoji and optional subtitle. Open a notebook to write inside it: each diary keeps a single entry per calendar day, with a title, a body, mood, tags, photos, location and weather. You move day by day and look back over your history through the Timeline, Calendar, Media and Map views.

The one-entry-per-day rule applies per diary: opening a day inside a diary either shows its existing entry or starts a fresh one. Two different diaries can each have their own entry on the same date.

Core concepts

Diary
A notebook on the shelf, with name, subtitle, color, emoji and cover. Each diary can be encrypted by the vault or shared — never both.
Entry
One record per calendar day inside a diary, with a title and a body written in the same rich editor as Notes.
Views
Inside a diary you switch between "Timeline", "Calendar", "Media" and "Map" — four ways of browsing the same entries.
Vault
The app-wide cryptographic gate. A diary marked "Encrypted by the vault" only opens while the vault is unlocked.

Encryption or sharing — per diary

When you create or edit a diary you decide how private it is. The two options are mutually exclusive:

  • Encrypted: turn on "Encrypted by the vault" and the diary's entries — title, body, tags, photos list, location and weather — are encrypted on your device before they are saved. Only you can read them; not even the server can. An encrypted diary cannot be shared.
  • Shared: a non-encrypted diary can be shared read-only, with your whole team ("Share with your team") or with individual "Guests" invited by the email of their myrna account. Guests read; only you write.
  • A diary that someone shared with you appears on your shelf marked "Shared with you" and is read-only.
While the vault is locked, an encrypted diary shows the "This diary is locked" screen and an "Unlock vault" button — its text never sits readable in memory. Turning encryption on or off for an existing diary also requires the vault to be unlocked, because the entries are re-saved in the new mode.

Privacy

The Journal is isolated from the rest of myrna: its entries do not show up in the other modules or in their searches. The only thing the Home page shows is the "Today's journal" card, which tells whether you have written today — never the content.

In this module

Each topic below has its own page:

Entries
Open a diary, write the day's entry, autosave, delete with undo.
Mood and context
Set the mood, the location and the weather of the day.
Photos and cover
The photo gallery, the day's thumbnail, covers and the Media view.
Organize and navigate
The shelf, the views, tags, date navigation, Memories and search.
The body of each entry uses the very same editor as Notes, so formatting, blocks and shortcuts work exactly the same way here.
EntriesInside each diary the Journal is organized by date: every day holds a single entry, with a title and a body written in the same rich editor used by Notes. This page covers how to open a diary and start today's entry, how to write and edit, how everything is saved on its own, and how to delete a day with undo. Mood, photos and organization each have their own page.Mood and contextBeyond the text, each journal entry records the context of your day: the mood you felt, the place where you were and that day's weather. This page shows how to set each of these from the open entry — everything saves automatically, with no save button. Tags and the day's photos have their own pages.Photos and coverEach journal entry can carry the photos of your day. They open in a full-screen carousel, one of them can be marked as the day's thumbnail, the main photo automatically becomes the entry's cover, and the diary's "Media" view gathers every photo by month. Everything saves automatically.Organize and navigateThe Journal grows one day at a time, across several diaries — so finding your way matters. This page covers the "My diaries" shelf, the views inside a diary, moving through your history by date, tags, the Timeline with its Memories, and search.