Entry Highlights
Requires Day One Gold. Entry Highlights is available with a Day One Gold subscription.
Entry Highlights uses AI to read your current journal entry and generate a concise set of bullet-point highlights — the key moments, decisions, feelings, and people from what you wrote. It’s a quick way to see the heart of an entry at a glance, or to add a summary right into your journal.
For details on how Day One handles your data when using AI features, see AI Features.
Key Features
- Instant bullet-point highlights – AI produces concise, emoji-tagged bullet points capturing the most meaningful moments from your entry.
- One-tap insertion – Add the generated highlights directly into your entry with a single tap or click.
- Copy to clipboard – Copy the highlights to use them anywhere outside Day One.
- Retry on demand – If the result isn’t quite right, regenerate at any time.
How to Use Entry Highlights
iPhone & iPad
- Open any journal entry with written content.
- Tap the Journaling Tools (sparkles) button in the editor toolbar.
- Tap Entry Highlights from the AI tools menu.
- Day One generates bullet-point highlights from your entry.
- Tap Add to Entry to append them to the bottom of your entry, or tap the copy icon to copy them to your clipboard.
Entry Highlights also supports Apple Intelligence on compatible devices. See AI Features for how to enable on-device processing.
Android
- Open any journal entry with written content.
- Tap the AI (sparkles) button in the editor toolbar.
- Tap Entry Highlights from the tools list.
4. Day One generates highlights from your entry. Tap the copy icon to copy them to your clipboard.
Mac
Mac support is coming soon.
Web
- Open an entry with written content at dayone.me.
- Click the Journaling Tools (sparkles) button in the editor toolbar.
- Click Entry Highlights from the dropdown menu.
- A modal opens and generates highlights. Click Add to Entry to append them to your entry.
Frequently Asked Questions
What if my entry is very short?
Entry Highlights works best with a few sentences or more. Very short entries may produce generic results — the more you’ve written, the more meaningful the highlights will be.
Can I edit the highlights after they’re added?
Yes. Once added to your entry, the highlights are just text — tap or click anywhere to edit them like any other part of your journal.
What happened to Entry Summary?
Entry Highlights was previously called Entry Summary. It was renamed when the output format was updated to bullet points, making key moments easier to scan at a glance.
The highlights aren’t accurate. Can I try again?
Yes. Tap or click Retry to generate a new set of highlights from the same entry.
Is Entry Highlights available on Mac?
Not yet. It’s currently available on iPhone, iPad, Android, and the web.
