Tags, places & trackers
Cozy bends to the way you like to journal. Beyond your writing, each entry can carry tags, a location, and trackers, all of which also unlock new ways to look back and filter your journal.
Add tags to an entry to group related days: travel, work, family,
whatever fits. Later you can filter your journal down to a single tag.
The tag picker has a search box to find existing tags and a + button to create a new one. Tags with no entries are removed from the list automatically, so the list stays tidy as your journal evolves.
Places
Section titled “Places”Mark where you wrote an entry by adding a location. Start typing a city in the location field and Cozy suggests matches, so you don’t have to wonder whether to write “NYC”, “New York”, or “New York City”.
Location lookup works without internet. On macOS, Cozy uses the system’s built-in geocoder — the same one Maps uses — for specific, always-available place names. On Windows and Linux, and as a fallback when offline on macOS, it queries a bundled city dataset. No API keys, no network requests.
Added a place by accident? Open the entry’s location chip and remove it. The place is wiped from the entry. Locations are also what power the map view.
Trackers
Section titled “Trackers”Trackers are properties you attach to entries to follow your mood, your habits, or anything else: sleep, weather, energy, workouts, you name it. (If you’ve seen them called custom fields in an older post, trackers are the same thing with a warmer name.)
Each tracker has a name and a set of options. A new journal starts with a ready Mood tracker (Great / Good / Meh / Low / Bad) so the feature is easy to find, but you’re free to reshape it.
Adding and managing trackers
Section titled “Adding and managing trackers”- Use the + Field control on an entry, or open Trackers, to create a new tracker and give it options.
- Set a tracker’s value on an entry right from the entry’s detail bar — e.g. Mood: Good.
Click the small slot to the left of a tracker’s name to pick an emoji from your system picker. It shows as a prefix on the tracker chip in the editor and in the entry list, right beside the value. Leave it blank and the tracker stays text-only, same as before.
Reordering
Section titled “Reordering”Drag any tracker to reorder the list, and drag its options inside to set the order you’d rather see them in.
Renaming
Section titled “Renaming”Open Trackers, double-click a name (or use the little pencil), and type a new one — “Mood” becomes “Vibes”, “so-so” becomes “meh”. Cozy updates every entry you’d already filled in to match, so none are left on the old name.