Daily Log

About the Daily Log

This is a notepad that knows what day it is. Type what you just did, press Enter, and it is logged with the time. Tomorrow, the page is empty again and today has moved into the history below — you do not have to file anything, rename anything or start a new document.

It exists because a to-do list and a diary are different things. A to-do list is about what you *intend* to do. This is about what you actually did — which is the thing you cannot remember on Friday afternoon when someone asks how the week went.

Everything stays in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

How the day rolls over

• Each entry is stamped with the time you added it. You can turn that off.
• At midnight, your local time, today drops down the list as a folded day and a blank one starts at the top.
• It rolls over even if you leave the page open overnight, and the moment you come back to a sleeping tab.
• A day you wrote nothing on is never filed. If you write on Monday and next open the page on Friday, Monday goes to history — it is not pushed out by three empty days.

How much history it keeps

By default, everything. Nothing is deleted unless you ask for it.

That is a deliberate choice rather than a limitation. A busy day of a dozen entries takes about 640 bytes, so a full year comes to roughly 230 KB — under 5% of the smallest storage allowance a browser gives a website. There is no space to save by throwing your own writing away.

A week is also shorter than most of the reasons people keep a log at all. Invoices are monthly. Performance reviews look back a quarter or a year. Only standup notes fit inside seven days.

If you would rather keep the list short, the Keep setting above the history offers *Everything*, *Last 7 days*, *Last 30 days* or *Last 90 days*. Choosing a limit deletes anything beyond it permanently, so it asks first and tells you how many days will go. The figure next to it shows how much space the log is using.

Before setting a limit, take a copy with Download .txt or Download PDF.

A limit counts days you wrote something on, not calendar days. Someone who writes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday with a 30-day limit keeps thirty real entries going back months, rather than losing everything older than last month.

Features

• One line at a time, stamped with the time — or without, if you prefer
• Rolls over on its own at local midnight, even with the page left open
• Today on its own, with every earlier day in a separate list below — click a day to read it
• Copy today to paste into an email, a standup or a timesheet
• Download the whole log as a .txt file or a printable PDF
• Click any entry to change it — on today or on an earlier day. Empty it to remove it.
• Keeps everything by default — or trim to the last 7, 30 or 90 days if you prefer
• No account, no upload, no sync, no limit on how much you write

What people use it for

• Standup notes — reading back yesterday without trying to remember it
• Timesheets and invoices — what you worked on, with the times already attached
• Job hunting and reviews — a record of what you actually got done
• Freelance work — what to bill a client for, written while it is fresh
• Studying — what you covered each day
• Lab and workshop notes — a running record of what you tried and what happened

Good to know

• This browser only. The log is not on your phone, not on your other computer, and not in any account. There is no sync, because there is no server.
• Clearing your browsing data deletes it. So does "clear cookies and site data" for this site. Download a copy if you would miss it.
• Private or incognito windows usually cannot save at all. The tool will tell you if the browser refuses.
• Midnight is your device's midnight. Travelling across time zones moves the boundary with you.
• This is deliberately not a to-do list, a habit tracker or a mood diary. It is a record of what happened.

How to use it

• Type what you just did and press Enter
• Keep adding lines through the day — the time is recorded for you
• Untick Record the time of each entry if you only want the text
• Press Copy today to paste it somewhere else
• Click an earlier day in the list to read it back
• Press Download .txt or Download PDF now and then if you have set a limit, so nothing important falls off the end