Step 1: Build a daily page you actually want to reuse
Jenny wanted her journaling to include more than just text — tags for the people she talks to and the goals she's tracking, so she could look back later and actually see patterns. The starting point for that is Planner's daily page, which already combines tasks, notes, and calendar events on one screen. A journal entry tile fits right alongside them, so the whole day — not just the journal — lives in one place.
Step 2: Save it as your template, once
Once the layout for a day looks right — journal tile included — the Save button in the corner turns it into your default template. From that point forward, any day you haven't already opened will start from that same layout automatically, so there's no rebuilding it from scratch each morning.
If you go back to today and save an updated template later, days you've already visited and customized won't be silently overwritten — they might already hold entries worth keeping. Only days you haven't touched yet pick up the new version.
Step 3: Pull each entry into one running Collection
A single day's entry is useful on its own, but the real value shows up once entries build up somewhere you can browse them together. Create a new page inside Planner and add a Collection — a table works well as a starting view — and name it something like Journal.
From there, open the three-dot menu on any journal tile and choose "add to collection." It's a manual step each day rather than something that syncs automatically, but it takes a couple of seconds, and every entry becomes one row inside your running journal collection.
Step 4: Add properties instead of typing dates by hand
Inside the collection, add a Created Time property so every entry timestamps itself automatically — no manually typing the date. Then add a multi-select property for tags: people you talked to that day, goals you're tracking, or anything else worth filtering by later. An entry can carry more than one tag at once.
Step 5: See it as a board by person or goal, not just a table
The same collection supports more than one view. Switch from table to Gallery to preview entries — including any images attached — or create a Kanban-style board grouped by your multi-select tags, so every entry connected to a specific person or goal is visible at a glance instead of buried in a long list.
A small one-time setup, a genuinely searchable archive
None of this requires a separate journaling app or a complicated system — a saved daily template and one tagged collection cover it. The daily habit stays as simple as writing a few lines; the payoff is a journal you can actually filter, group, and revisit by person or goal months later, instead of a pile of entries with no way back into them.