I've been keeping a journal with Org-Mode for nearly three years now. I also have an easy system of adding entries via my mobile devices, which was a huge thing

I've been keeping a journal with Org-Mode for nearly three years now. I also have an easy system of adding entries via my mobile devices, which was a huge thing I missed at first. Here's what I finally came up with as a solution that works really well for writing Org-Mode journal entries from my iPhone and iPad and getting those entries back into my main Org-Mode journal file: - I use the Drafts app [1], which has a incredibly powerful feature that lets you create custom commands that include a series of steps, such as "Append to /refile.org file in Dropbox", which I have setup as a "Save to Journal" command - I have a TextExpander snippet that includes the proper Org-Mode format for an entry, complete with a the date and tags and even a default entry title all filled in. All I do is type "Jjj" inside Drafts and I'm ready to start typing my journal entry. To write a journal entry from my mobile device: - I launch Drafts, type my TextExpander abbreviation ("Jjj") to fill in the Org-Mode template, then just start typing my journal entry. - When I'm done writing my journal entry, I hit the "Save to Journal" action in Drafts, which appends that entry to my refile.org file on Dropbox. - Once a week or so I open the refile.org inside Emacs and for each entry I run a custom function [2] that refiles that entry into my main journal-2017.org file. The function properly files the entry into the right spot in the datetree. Processing my refile.org file literally takes a few seconds, as I have that function bound to a key that I just run with the cursor over each entry. I've been using this process for a few years now and it's incredibly easy and reliable, not to mention completely free of any proprietary data formats, which is exactly what I wanted for journaling. I'm using a similar process (Drafts app + TextExpander + Dropbox) to make Ledger CLI [3] entries from my iPhone very easy, so that I can keep my financial ledger up-to-date when I'm out. [1] http://agiletortoise.com/drafts/ http://agiletortoise.com/drafts/ [2] https://github.com/raamdev/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs.d/config/custom-functions.el#L77-L98 https://github.com/raamdev/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs.d/conf... [3] http://www.ledger-cli.org/ http://www.ledger-cli.org/