Your Day: the Today View in Keepsake

The header

The date, the ISO week number, and the name day of the day. The ‹ and › buttons (Previous day / Next day) move one day at a time — on another day, Today brings you back; the calendar icon opens the mini calendar. Birthdays and name days of your contacts show up just below, as small chips — see Birthdays & name days.

Today's intention or question

One short line to set the tone. See The intention or question of the day.

Day timeline

Your day as a sequence of blocks, from Wake to Bed, with your Today's tasks block inside. See Day timeline.

Day's notes

The notes you attached to this date — meeting prep, what to bring, thoughts for that day. See Notes of the day.

Daily journal

The entries of the day: calls, meetings, messages, moments. See Daily journal.

A mantra

A short phrase you want to carry through the day. "Less, but better." — "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."

An intention

How you want to show up — present tense, about you. "Be patient with the team." — "Stay calm through the meeting."

A single priority

The one thing that would make the day a success. "Ship the prototype, nothing else."

A question to keep in mind

You don't answer it in the field — you let it work on you during the day. "What really matters today?" — "What would I do differently if no one ever saw it?" Come back to it in the evening and see what it changed.

Set it, change it, bring one back

Click the intention, or Set an intention when there's none (in the morning the invitation reads Start the day with an intention), and type one short line. Enter or a click elsewhere keeps it, Escape cancels. Each intention belongs to its day: tomorrow starts with a blank line, and you write the next one by hand — that small effort is what makes it stick. To remove it, empty the line. A long intention shows on two lines at most; click it to read or edit it in full. Your line also shows in the right sidebar (under the week number), and in the Journal on the days you wrote it.

What you'll find there

Tasks due today, overdue tasks, ASAP tasks (no date, they stay until done), and occurrences of your recurring tasks, which are projected automatically. Tasks created on the fly with T+0 in the capture bar land here too.

Order is priority

Open the block and drag tasks to reorder them — the first task in the list is your most important one. To add some, type them in the line at the bottom of the block, one after another (or press A from the timeline).

Check off, open, or push back

Check a task off when it's done, open it to edit its date, people or pages, or push it to a better day with Snooze.

Blocks follow each other

Finish early and you're free; run late and the next blocks simply shift. The timeline asks "what comes next?", not "what happens at 2pm?".

Day close

The last line of the timeline, at your bedtime, is the Day close. It tells you how much free time is left before bed — or by how much the day overruns. A quiet way to see, at a glance, whether the day you planned fits in the day you have.

Add a note to the day

Click + Add note next to the section title. The note is created already attached to that date. You can also attach any existing note with the /date command — see Link notes to dates.

Move it or detach it

Plans change. Move to another day sends the note to a new date; Remove from this day detaches it without deleting anything.

Log what happened

Click + Add entry, choose the type (call, message, meeting…), write a line, and link the people involved. The entry immediately joins their relationship history.

From a QuickNote

Captured something on the fly? In the Inbox, To journal (shortcut J) turns the note into an entry, keeping its people and pages.

Birthdays

Contacts whose birthday is that day appear as a chip with a cake icon, just below the date. Click a name to open their contact profile. Upcoming birthdays (next 14 days) are also listed in the right sidebar — see Birthday reminders.

Name days

Contacts whose first name matches the saint of the day appear the same way, with a party icon — and the name day itself is shown next to the week number. Keepsake uses a built-in calendar of French name days — no setup required.

Near term

Today, Tomorrow, Next Monday, In one week, 1st of next month.

Further out

In one month, In 6 months, Start of next year, In one year — for what matters but isn't urgent. The task resurfaces exactly when it should. For these date options, Keepsake shows the exact target date and asks you to confirm.

Without a date

ASAP keeps the task in front of you every day until it's done. Someday takes it out of your days while keeping it in your task list.

A specific date

Choose a date… opens a date picker — useful to push a task to the day of a specific meeting.

Everything in one timeline

Entries from all contacts, tasks completed each day and pending tasks sit in a single scrollable feed. Each day shows its intention (if any) at the top, followed by entries and tasks.

Scroll to load more

Keep scrolling down to load more history — as far back as you need.

Future days

Use the Next days button at the top of the Journal to reveal tomorrow, then the day after. Useful to prepare — add an entry or a task to a future date before it arrives.

Navigate by date

Click a day's header to open that day in the Today view. Use the mini calendar (calendar icon at the top) to jump straight to any date — and once you've scrolled away, Back to today brings you back.

From the Today view

+ Add entry in the Daily journal, + Add note in Day's notes, Add a block in the Day timeline. Everything is attached to the date displayed.

From the Journal

Each day in the Journal has a + Add… line: choose An entry or A task to add it to that specific day — even a past one. Forgot to log a call from last week? Scroll to that day and add it right there.

Inline editing

Entries and tasks can be edited in place: click a card to change its content, people, pages or date.

Activity dots

Days that contain content (tasks, entries or notes) are marked with small dots, so you spot busy days at a glance.

Quick navigation

Click any date to jump to it. Use the arrows to move between months.

Starting your day?

Use Today. It shows only what matters now: your intention, your tasks (late ones included), your timeline, birthdays. No noise from other days.

Looking back?

Use the Journal. Scroll back through days to see what happened, what got done and what was logged. Great for a weekly review or to prepare a meeting.

Adding something to another day?

Either works: navigate to the date in Today, or scroll to it in the Journal and click + Add….