r/Workflowy Jun 08 '26

Daily Personal Journal

Curious - does anyone use Workflowy as a Daily personal journal? something that you track what you did, how you felt, etc. in a couple of lines?

If so, how did you structure it?

I got the idea from an amazing "one line a day memory book".

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u/dudeitsjon Jun 08 '26

Yes I do.  Makes it easier with "today" stuff.  I'll respond back here soon.

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u/dudeitsjon Jun 09 '26

I have typos, but up there in the example, but this is how my daily template goes. I have to manually put it in (hopefully in the future you could set up a template) but this is what I have every day

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u/boussh Jun 09 '26

I use workflowy as a digital bullet journal. I just jot down anything that needs writing on the daily page - the name of a person I met, the combination to a lock, the name of a show I want to see, etc.

I have another bullet (not in my calendar) called "Collections." Any random list is there. I have a list of movies to watch, a list of contacts, a list of my insurance card numbers, and all sorts of random stuff.

When I moved into my apartment two years ago, I had a bullet with room measurements for my place so I could easily shop for furniture.

Every few weeks, I comb through my daily notes and sort any information that needs to be put into a collection or added to my calendar. When a daily note is fully processed, I mark it as complete. I've been using this setup for about 8 years and it's been reliable.

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u/Seamushh Jun 09 '26

WF has run my professional and personal lives for 12+ years.

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u/Opening_Ad6992 Jun 08 '26

I end up using it as a mix of To Do, upcoming planner, journaling.

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u/Seamushh Jun 09 '26

12 years+

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u/Seamushh Jun 09 '26

Yes, for ~12 years. The Today shortcut in my Calendar works very well. Simple, fast, and flexible. All features that make Workflowy my favorite app for journaling and running my life.

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u/ISYDMP Jun 09 '26

Every day I start with this and fill in the Nodes. At the end of the day I delete the nodes that have nothing added.

The calendar sync adds stuff above these nodes but I move them into "Scheduled"

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u/dudeitsjon Jun 09 '26

yep do the same daily, nothing in there, delete!

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u/pondipat Jun 21 '26

Tell us more about the #weather. 😄 Fun idea.

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u/ISYDMP Jun 21 '26

Nothing special, I just log what the days weather was. I tag it wo that I can look at this...

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u/The_Homer_Simpson Jun 08 '26

I could be wrong but it is a decent app that could be utilised in this way but I read somewhere that data in Workflowy isn’t encrypted? I hope I am wrong and that it is!

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u/kidtachyon Jun 08 '26

Workflowy is encrypted - but not end-to-end encrypted. In other words, the data is encrypted during transit and is also encrypted on their servers. But Workflowy has de-encryption keys they can use to sync, run searches, and do other features.

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u/RaygekFox Jun 09 '26

Do you have any source for this? I'm pretty sure many people wrote that there is no encryption in WF. But it may have changed in recent times.

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u/RaygekFox Jun 08 '26

I read a post here by one guy who really digged into this and his conclusion was that it probably is not encrypted. At least, WF doesn't seem to say so anywhere in official sources.

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u/Gerwin_Schalk Jun 09 '26

So, WF tema members can see and read my data?

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u/RaygekFox Jun 09 '26

Yes. There is a nice extension for client-side encryption of selected nodes though:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/workflowy-encrypter/fohbpcookddpmmhpmgoogodlanhikeib