Journals

SteleKit opens today’s journal entry automatically at startup. You do not need to create it.

What journals are

Each day gets its own page. SteleKit creates the page for today when you open a graph. The page is blank until you write something.

Journal pages are ordinary pages. They appear in search, accept wiki links, and accumulate backlinks like any other page.

Storage format

Journal pages live in the journals/ directory inside your graph folder:

journals/
  2024_01_15.md
  2024_01_16.md
  2024_01_17.md

The filename format is YYYY_MM_DD.md. This is the same format Logseq uses, so your existing journal history opens without conversion.

Writing in a journal

Open today’s journal and start typing. Each line becomes a block. Use Tab to indent — journal entries support the full outliner feature set.

- Morning standup notes
  - blocked on the API integration
  - need to talk to [[Alice]]
- Read [[Getting Started]] for SteleKit setup

Navigating journal history

The journal tab in the sidebar shows today’s page. To navigate to a previous day:

1. Click on the date heading to open the date picker
2. Select any past date to jump to that day’s entry
3. Use the left/right arrows to step backward or forward by one day

Past entries are read-write. You can add notes to any previous journal page.

Linking to journal pages

Reference a journal page by its date in [[YYYY-MM-DD]] format:

See the notes from [[2024-01-10]]

SteleKit displays the date in a readable format in the backlinks panel.