Journals

A journal is a brief recounting of how a particular day, week, month, or other time period went. Journals live in the "journals" view.

Auto-Generation

Journals can be configured to be generated automatically, via the task gen mechanism. The mechanism is simple: a few days in advance of the time period a journal would target, a new journal is generated, with an optional journaling inbox task attached to it.

There are a number of settings you can control: * The periods you are using for journaling. A typical scenario would be daily and weekly journals. * Whether to generate journals and journaling tasks, just journals, or nothing at all. * The eisenhower, difficulty, and project to use for generating tasks.

Note that journals are always for a given period. The tasks associated with them have a due date set to the end of the planning period, as you should finish your journaling before the period end.

Also note that if there's a journal you created targeting that same period and date combination, a new one won't be generated.

Properties

Journals are written on a particular day for a particular period interval. The period can be one of:

• Daily: the day's journal
• Weekly: the week's journal, as recorded on the particular day.
• Monthly: the month's journal, as recorded on the particular day.
• Quarterly: the quarter's journal, as recorded on the particular day.
• Yearly: a whole year's journal, as recorded on the particular day.

Only one journal can exist for a particular day. Furthermore, a single journal can exist for a particular period in time (so you better write the journal of that period towards the end of it).

Journals are mainly a written artifact, so they're essentially one big document. But they do have a recording ot the work activity that happened during that period (scores achieved, tasks done, etc), much like in the report functionality.