# 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.

![The entries list on the left with an entry open in the editor on the right](https://cozyjournal.app/_astro/editor.D4E9DLsl_Z2nywaG.webp)

## Creating an entry

[Section titled “Creating an entry”](#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.

## Quick entry from the menu bar

[Section titled “Quick entry from the menu bar”](#quick-entry-from-the-menu-bar)

A small flower icon lives in your menu bar (macOS) or system tray (Windows). Click it and a compact panel drops down with a text area, a journal picker, and a Save button. Hit ⌘↵ (Ctrl+↵ on Windows) and your note lands in today’s entry in whichever journal you picked — appended if one already exists, or created fresh if not.

The panel can open from anywhere with ⌘⇧C (Ctrl+Shift+C on Windows), even when Cozy is in the background. You can change the shortcut or turn the feature off in **Settings → System → Quick entry**.

Any combination works, all four modifiers included, so a Hyper key bound to Caps Lock records exactly as you press it.

On macOS, closing the main window keeps Cozy running in the background so quick entry always works. The Dock icon comes back the moment you open a window again.

## Writing without a title

[Section titled “Writing without a title”](#writing-without-a-title)

If you’d rather just start writing, you can turn off the title line in **Settings**. Entries skip straight to the body — the date still shows in the toolbar so you know where you are. Your titles are kept quietly in each file even while the field is hidden, so turning it back on later doesn’t lose anything.

## Changing the date

[Section titled “Changing the date”](#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

[Section titled “How entries are named on disk”](#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](https://cozyjournal.app/docs/your-data/files/).

## An empty day

[Section titled “An empty day”](#an-empty-day)

In the [calendar view](https://cozyjournal.app/docs/organizing/views/), 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

[Section titled “Moving an entry to another journal”](#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

[Section titled “Deleting an entry”](#deleting-an-entry)

Right-click an entry and delete it. It goes to **Recently deleted**, at the bottom of the sidebar, and waits there for 30 days. Its photos, video and audio stay with it until it goes.

Recently deleted reads like the rest of the journal: the entries you removed, newest day first, photos and all. Click one to open it and read it through. A line above the entry says how long it has left, with **Put it back** and **Delete now** beside it.

On disk, a deleted entry moves into a `.trash` folder inside the journal, so it syncs and backs up like everything else. Because every entry is just a file in your folder, you can also manage entries directly on your computer if you ever prefer to.

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