Entry Templates

Some entries have a shape you return to: an evening review, three things you're grateful for, notes from a weekly call. A template keeps that shape so a new entry can start from it.

Where templates live

Templates are listed in the Journal under Templates, below the Bin. A template is an ordinary entry that's kept aside: open it to edit it like any other entry, with headings, lists, tags and even people.

The Templates list with an Evening letter template: three headings, Who I saw today, What was said, What I will remember — A template is an entry kept aside. Edit it like any other.

Making a template

From scratch: open Templates and choose New template. Write the parts you want every time.
From an entry: right-click an entry in the list (long-press on iPhone and iPad) and choose Make a template…. Your entry stays as it is; the template is a copy, without its date or weather.

Starting an entry from a template

Start a new entry (⌘⇧J).
While it's blank, a template icon appears on the date line, next to place and weather. Click it.
Pick a template. Its title and text fill the new entry, dated today.

A blank entry with the templates menu open from the date line, showing Evening letter — On a blank entry, the template icon sits on the date line.

You can also right-click a template in the list and choose New entry from this template.

Each new entry is a copy. Changing a template later never changes the entries you already made from it.

A few ideas

Evening letter: Who I saw today · What was said · What I'll remember.
Weekly call with someone far away: an @mention of them, then their news and yours.
Three good things: a numbered list and a #gratitude tag.
Trip day: Where we went · What we ate · Who we met.

Templates sync with Ember Plus and are included in your backups and exports.

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