DailyLine

Open the app, write the sentence, done. There is no journal to create, no setup and no question to answer first.

If nothing comes to mind: the sentence does not have to be significant. „Rain all day, soup to make up for it“ is a perfectly good entry. In two years, that is exactly the kind that brings a day back.

Sealing closes the entry for that day. It is the small moment that turns note-taking into a ritual: the sentence stands, the day is done.

A sealed entry can no longer be changed. That is deliberate: a diary you can smooth over afterwards loses precisely what makes it worth keeping. Today’s sentence should still stand in two years as you meant it today, even if you would word it differently by then.

So read it once before you seal. Until then you can edit as often as you like.

No. DailyLine deliberately keeps no streak counter that drops to zero when you miss a day. A gap stays a gap — it says nothing about you and the app does not comment on it.

In the review you page through days, weeks and months. The appeal usually arrives after a few weeks: on their own the sentences seem unremarkable, one after another they make a surprisingly precise picture.

No. A missed day stays empty.

That sounds strict, but there is a reason: what you write about Tuesday three days later is no longer Tuesday — it is your memory of it. DailyLine is meant to collect snapshots, not reconstructions. A gap in the chronicle is information in itself, and it harms nobody.

DailyLine can remind you once a day to write your sentence. You set the reminder in the app’s settings — one notification a day, at whatever time suits you. It never becomes more than that, and if you would rather not have it, simply switch it off.

If notifications do not arrive at all, check Settings › Notifications › DailyLine — Allow Notifications must be on there. An active Focus such as Do Not Disturb can also hold notifications back.

DailyLine syncs your entries through your own iCloud. All devices need the same Apple Account signed in and iCloud Drive switched on. The first sync needs an internet connection and sometimes a minute or two.

Usually it is enough to close the app completely and reopen it, which nudges the sync along. If that does not help, check the Apple Account on both devices and whether DailyLine is allowed under Settings › your name › iCloud.

Your entries live on the device and in your iCloud. An iPhone backup includes them automatically. You can check under Settings › your name › iCloud › iCloud Backup.

There is no file export. Your life archive lives in the app and in your iCloud — the backup keeps it safe, including when you move to a new iPhone.

Not through us. We run no server holding your entries and have no access to your iCloud. Anyone with access to your unlocked device can open the app, of course — as with any other.

Because the blank page is the reason most diaries end after a fortnight. One sentence is small enough that you still write it on a tired evening — and that is the only property that really matters in a diary.

Because we do not believe a mood chart tells you anything about yourself that you did not already know. DailyLine counts nothing up and infers nothing. It keeps what you wrote — nothing further is intended.