Writing entries

If you’ve used a notes or journaling app before, writing in Cozy will feel familiar. Your entries show up in a list, newest first, and selecting one opens it for writing.

Creating an entry

Make a new entry from the New Entry menu item, or the + button when your journal is empty. You can write as many entries per day as you want. There’s no one-entry-a-day rule.

A new entry’s title defaults to today’s date, but you can rename it to whatever you like: Coffee with Marta, Morning by the river, anything.

Changing the date

Writing about a different day? Click the entry’s date to change it. The entry moves to where it belongs in your timeline, calendar, and “On this day” memories.

How entries are named on disk

Each entry is saved as a Markdown file in your journal folder:

• An untitled entry written today is saved as 2026-06-07.md — the tidy daily-note convention Obsidian uses.
• An entry you title is saved with a filename based on that title, like 2026-06-07-coffee-with-marta.md.

Either way, the file holds your writing plus the entry’s details: date, mood, location, tags. More on that in Where your files live.

An empty day

In the calendar view, click any past day or today to start an entry for that date. Future days stay disabled. Cozy is for what happened, not what’s scheduled.

Moving an entry to another journal

Right-click an entry (or select several first) and choose Move to journal. Cozy copies the writing and any photos, video, or audio it holds into the journal you pick, and removes them from the old one. Your pictures keep working in their new home.

Deleting an entry

Right-click an entry and delete it. Because every entry is just a file in your folder, you can also manage entries directly on your computer if you ever prefer to.