Time Travel

Time Travel lays your journal out like a five-year diary: one column per year, with the same days lined up across them. Scroll across a row to see what you wrote on this day last year, and the year before.

Opening Time Travel

• iPhone: Open the Library drawer and tap Time Travel.
• iPad and macOS: Choose Time Travel from the More menu in the toolbar.

It opens as a sheet and starts scrolled to today. Tap the close button to return to the journal.

Reading the Grid

• Each column is a year, oldest on the left and the current year on the right. The grid covers every year from your first entry to now, and always shows at least five years.
• Each row is a period of the year, so the same date lines up across columns. February 29 has its own row; in other years that cell is blank.
• Three columns fit on an iPhone and five on an iPad or Mac. Scroll in any direction to see the rest.
• The header keeps the month and year in view as you scroll.
• Today’s cell is outlined. Cells for days that have not come yet are empty.
• Entries are placed on the day they were written, in the time zone they were written in.

Day, Week and Month

The Day / Week / Month control sets how much each cell covers. It sits in the bottom bar on iOS and in the toolbar on macOS. Week is the default.

• Day — one cell per date.
• Week — seven-day runs counted from January 1, so the same week lines up every year.
• Month — one cell per month.

Pinch in to zoom out (day → week → month) and spread to zoom back in. The grid keeps its place when the scale changes. Tap Today to jump back to today.

What a Cell Shows

• One entry — its title and a short preview.
• Two entries — the cell splits and shows both titles.
• Three or four entries — a 2×2 grid of titles.
• Five or more — three entries and a +N tile. Tap +N to see every entry in that period with its preview and time.

Days without entries are left empty.

Opening an Entry

Tap an entry to read it. It opens inside Time Travel, so going back returns you to the same spot in the grid. If you edit the entry, the grid updates when you close the editor.

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