Timeline

The Timeline is the primary work surface in Notaday. It shows active entries, supports quick capture, and helps users keep today's work in motion.

Core Capabilities

• Create tasks, routines, and journal entries from the command entry composer.
• Filter by type: All, Tasks, or Routines.
• Search entries by text.
• Filter by channel or tag from sidebar or entry metadata.
• Drag and drop entries to update manual sort order.
• Toggle completion state.
• Expand or collapse completed entries.
• Load additional entries through pagination.
• Edit, delete, connect, tag, or channel entries through the edit dialog.

Command Entry Composer

The New Note action opens a Spotlight-style command composer for fast capture from anywhere in the application.

Users can:

• Open the composer with the New Note button in supported headers.
• Open the composer with the local keyboard shortcut.
• Enter a title and optional details.
• Create the entry with the Create button or by pressing Enter.
• Use the compact type dropdown on the right side of the input row to manually choose Task, Journal, or Routine.

The composer auto-detects the entry type while the user types. Manual selection overrides auto-detection for the current entry.

Keyboard Shortcuts

The new-entry shortcut is local to the browser and is selected automatically from the detected operating system on first launch.

Users can record their own shortcut or turn it off under Settings → Keyboard.

Entry Type Detection

When a user types into the command composer or smart entry input, Notaday scores the text against simple keyword groups:

Explicit prefixes such as journal:, reflection:, routine:, and habit: also influence the detected type.

Smart Capture

With Pro, the composer reads what you type and suggests the rest for you: the entry type, a due date ("tomorrow 3pm"), a duration ("20 min"), a routine interval ("every week"), and a matching channel and tags from the ones you already have.

Suggestions appear as dashed chips while you are still in the composer. Anything you leave in place is saved with the entry; select the × on a chip to drop that suggestion. A type, channel, or interval you set yourself is never overridden.

Suggestions arrive a moment after you stop typing. If you create the entry before they appear, it is saved without them.

Voice Capture

Voice Capture creates entries from what you say, without leaving the app you are working in.

1. Press Control + Option + Space anywhere on your Mac. A small window appears at the top of the screen and starts recording right away.
2. Say what you want to capture, for example "Create a task call customer Zankl, tomorrow at 9".
3. Press the shortcut again, or select Done.

Notaday creates the entry and shows what it made. The window closes by itself after five seconds. If you name several things, each becomes its own entry.

As with Smart Capture, Notaday works out the entry type, due date, duration, routine interval, and a matching channel and tags from the ones you already have. Unlike Smart Capture there is no review step: the entry is saved immediately, and you can adjust it in the Timeline afterwards.

Select × while recording to discard the recording without creating anything.

Your voice is transcribed on your Mac and the audio never leaves it. Only the transcribed text is sent to Notaday. Speech is recognised in the language set under Settings → Appearance → Language.

To use a different shortcut, open Settings → Keyboard → Voice Capture, select the current shortcut, and press the new combination. Press Delete while recording to turn the shortcut off.

The first recording asks for microphone access. Voice Capture is not available while a meeting is being recorded.

Routine Display Modes

Routine entries can be displayed in two ways:

The setting is controlled from Settings and persisted on the user profile.

Completed Entries

Completed entries are kept available in a collapsible section. If all visible entries are completed, the Timeline shows an all-caught-up state.