Your day

To-dos, notes and journal

Capture a thought, tick off a task or write about your day in one sentence, kept as plain text on your Mac.

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Choose an example to copy it, then try it in Jevie.

Use itHow it worksLimitsWhere it's kept

Use it

To-dos and lists

• todo reply to omar tomorrow at 9A task with a time, said back as tomorrow at 9 AM; Jevie rings when the time comes
• todosYour open to-dos as you type, done or moved in a key
• todos notes journal reminders The word and a space: that card alone fills the palette, nothing else under it. Notes are your pages and jotted notes, newest first, as the phone's Home lists them; Journal is your days, a card of its own. Without the space, notes still finds the Notes app and folders
• A card pinned with its pin (or ⌘⇧P)On ⌘Space it is the card itself, one after another for each pinned card, its boxes and Add item working there; its pin again takes it off at once
• new floating noteraycast notesRaycast Notes' names reach your notes here
• search notes groceriesfind notes about the tripThe notes that mention it
• habit stretch every dayA habit with its streak kept
• add milk and eggs to my grocery listgot the milkA named list, checked off
• create a list called launch prepA new list, empty and ready for its first item; it is kept once something is on it

Notes and pages

• note: ask about the launch dateKept in your inbox
• open page Lisbon tripadd to page Lisbon trip: buy sunscreenA page as an outline, added to
• write a page about planning a Lisbon trip with a packing listHeadings, to-dos and links written for you
• what links to Lisbon tripEvery page that refers to it

Journal and plans

• journal: had a great run todaywhat did I write yesterdayA dated journal
• make me a coding interview prep trackerA tracker to review (answer components)
• keep it in my notesturn that into to-dosIts steps as real to-dos on your agenda

How it works

Notes, to-dos and journals are one set of plain text files, so a grocery item is also a to-do on your agenda, and ticking it anywhere ticks it everywhere. Link pages with [[Page names]] and #tags; pages can hold tables, checklists and live lists.

On the phone, Journal, Notes and To do widgets let you write or tick things off from the home screen (launcher).

Home's Notes is a list, as Google Keep shows one: each page and note a row with its name, its first lines and how long ago it changed, newest first, five shown and the rest under more. Type in Take a note… at the top and press return to keep it (the first line is its name), ⤢ to write it as a whole page, or + by the heading for a blank one. A row tapped opens its page.

Hold a row, as in Keep, to pick it: the tabs give way to a bar with × and how many are picked. Tap or drag over more rows to pick them too. Pin keeps pages at the top of Notes, Archive moves them out of the list into Archived at its foot (Unarchive brings them back), and Delete asks once more first.

A deleted page goes to the Trash and a deleted note to .deleted.org. Written notes can only be deleted. To-dos work the same way: hold one to mark several done, move them to tomorrow, or delete them.

Reminders can only be marked done. × or Esc lets go.

Limits

• Apple reminders and Google Calendar entries are separate from these to-dos (mail and calendar).
• A generated page never replaces one with the same name; it gets a new name.
• Notes stay on your Mac and need no Google account.
• Pinned and archived are a #+pinned: t or #+archived: t line at the top of the page's file, so the mark moves with the file. A journal day cannot be pinned or archived.

Where it's kept

Plain org-mode text in ~/Documents/Jevie (JEVIE_NOTES changes it), with pages/ and journals/; deleted notes in .deleted.org.

In Jevie, help todos answers from this page as you type.

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Updated 2 November 2026 · Something wrong or missing? Tell us