Prompts
Journaling is a great way to explore interesting new topics and ideas. Here, you'll find a wealth of prompts and exercises designed to spark your curiosity and inspire your writing. Whether you want to reflect on your past experiences, explore your emotions, or tap into your creativity, you'll find something to pique your interest here. With a variety of topics and themes to choose from, you'll never run out of ideas for your journaling practice.
10 Spring Cleaning Journaling Prompts
Use these spring cleaning journaling prompts to declutter your space and mind, set tangible goals, and engage in self-reflection.
Friendship Journal: Ideas for Journaling with Faraway Friends
Here's how to use a friendship journal with friends to share thoughts, questions, and updates in a more meaningful way.
14 Valentine’s Day Journaling Prompts for Exploring Love
This Valentine's Day, reflect on your personal journey of love, friendship, and self-discovery.
January is Over — Let’s Check in on Our Resolutions
As the first month of 2024 closes, it’s time to pause and reflect on the resolutions we set for ourselves in the optimistic glow of our New Year’s celebrations. Just four weeks ago, we were putting fingers to keyboard and making plans to grow and change in 2024. But now, that initial enthusiasm has had […]
24 New Year Journal Prompts for 2024
The beginning of a new year offers an important chance to reflect, set goals, and find focus for the upcoming year. A set of New Year journal prompts can help provide some needed stillness and introspection to start the year off with more clarity, intention, and gratitude. To help start the year off, we’ve compiled […]
40 End-of-Year Journaling Prompts to Inspire Reflection
Reflect on the year with these 40 thought-provoking journaling prompts, designed to unlock memories, celebrate growth, and inspire your path forward.
20 Gratitude Journaling Prompts to Inspire More Thankfulness
Gratitude journaling offers a simple way to celebrate what we are grateful for in our lives on a more regular basis. The simple act of reflecting on what you’re thankful for and then listing these things out can be a surprising exercise in appreciating the abundance that surrounds us every day. Taking time to pause […]
Beyond Perfectionism: 30 Journal Prompts for Self-Compassion
Perfectionism is the continuous pursuit of being “perfect.” But beneath the surface of perfectionism lies a complex interplay of motivations, aspirations, and fears. Striving to be perfect can hinder progress more than it facilitates it, so finding a balance between striving for excellence and applying self-compassion is crucial for cultivating a fulfilling and resilient journey […]
Journaling About Relationships: 70 Prompts for Deeper Connections
Journaling about relationships isn’t a magic solution to relationship problems, but writing about your relationships can help you enjoy deeper, more meaningful connections. Keeping a journal allows you to reflect on your feelings, actions, and reactions in a safe space. By putting pen to paper, you give yourself the opportunity to understand patterns, recognize areas […]
5 Types of Journaling Prompts for Anxiety
Journaling prompts for anxiety can help you process your emotions and recognize and maybe even understand what makes you anxious. Everyone feels anxious and stressed now and then. In fact, anxiety disorders affect 1-in-3 people. Anxiety is part of life, but it can interfere with daily living for some people. For many, fear and anxiety can […]
Journaling Prompts for Therapy: How to Start Therapeutic Journaling
Journaling has a load of mental health benefits, but you don’t always know what to write about to get the value out of a journaling session. That’s where journaling prompts for therapy come in. Deeper journal prompts can help you make the best use of any journaling session by sending you off of your typical […]
50 Unique Journaling Prompts for Self-Discovery
Using journaling prompts for self-discovery can make the process of keeping a journal even more meaningful. While journaling has always served as a tool for personal development, focusing on this intention can amplify the benefits of the practice. By reflecting on your daily encounters, emotions, and memories, you’ll gain profound insights into your identity and […]
21 Journaling Prompts for Mental Health
Whether you're new to journaling or looking to revitalize your writing practice, these journaling prompts for mental health can help support your journey towards inner growth and self-care.
550+ Journal Prompts: The Ultimate List
Discover over 500 journal prompts to jump-start your journal writing and explore personal growth, daily reflection, and goal-setting.
Wondering What to Write? There’s a Prompt For That.
When we launched Templates last year, we did so hoping an in-app framework for repeated journal responses would help facilitate daily journaling. Many journalers like to log the same type of response each day, and Templates make this easy to do. Our Templates library includes Day Summary, 5 Minute PM, Meals, Ideas and more. Users […]
End-to-End Encryption for Day One Sync
From the time that we started designing end-to-end encryption for Day One Sync, we’ve planned to publish the technical details of our implementation. Recently, we were inspired by a similar disclosure by OmniFocus (see it here). Now, with our design reaching stability and implementation well underway, we’re ready to do the same. We’ll start by […]
