Automate Your Journaling: Connect Zapier with Day One

Today we’re excited to introduce Zapier for Day One, a powerful new integration that helps you journal more consistently by sending information from other apps directly into your journal without any manual work.

Whether you want to save articles you read, track your completed tasks, archive social posts, or collect ideas and meeting notes, Zapier lets you build workflows that support your routines. Instead of switching between apps or copy/pasting information, your journal can now update itself quietly in the background.

This feature is available with Day One Premium in version 2025.23 or higher of Day One for iPhone and iPad, Day One for Android, and Day One on the web.

Why Automate Your Journaling?

Life moves quickly, and it’s easy for meaningful details to slip through the cracks. Instead of relying on memory or manually copying information into Day One, automated workflows help your journal stay up to date with far less effort.

Automation helps you:

• Capture more of your life, without doing more work: Every saved article, completed task, or new idea becomes part of your personal archive in Day One.
• Build consistent routines: If you struggle to remember what happened during the week, automated logs fill in details that you can reflect on later.
• Create richer stories with less friction: Your journal becomes a living record that evolves alongside the apps you already use.
  

What is Zapier?

Zapier connects over 8,000+ apps so they can work together through automated workflows. These automations run whenever something happens in one app (like saving an article, publishing a post, creating a task, or ending a meeting) and then send that information to another app. With Day One’s integration, Zapier can automatically create new journal entries based on activity happening in the apps you already use.

Here are just a few examples you can set up in seconds:

• Turn new Google Docs into Day One entries to keep a record of drafts, writing sessions, or brainstorming.
• Log completed Todoist tasks as daily wins so you can see your progress.
• Archive every YouTube upload to track your creative projects automatically.
• Capture new posts from WordPress, Instagram for Business, or Bluesky to preserve your digital presence in your journal.
• Save new Reddit posts that match a search to follow topics, communities, or inspiration you care about.
• Log your Zoom meetings after they end to make meeting notes part of your daily record.
• Capture ideas from new Evernote notes and keep your thinking organized in one place.

We’ve built over 30 ready-to-use Zap templates to help you get started quickly, and to give you some ideas for what’s possible with Zapier.

Your Privacy Comes First

Your journal is private, and that doesn’t change with Zapier. Day One’s Zapier integration is primarily designed so Zapier can add new entries to your journal, but it cannot read or access any content that already exists inside your journals. All Day One journal entries (whether written manually or created through Zapier) remain end-to-end encrypted and visible only to you.

Day One supports two Zapier actions:

1. Create Journal Entry (a write action)
2. List Journals (a search action that only returns journal names, colors, and IDs for automation setup)

These capabilities let Zapier create entries and allow advanced users to route entries into specific journals, but never expose journal content.

Zapier can access:

• The names, colors, and IDs of your journals. Just note that for end-to-end encrypted journals, journal names are still encrypted, so only the ID can be accessed by Zapier, not the name.
• Your Day One email address, user ID, and display name
• The ability to create new entries in your journals

Zapier cannot access:

• The content of any journal entries
• Existing entries or metadata inside them
• Private keys or encryption keys

How to Get Started

Make sure you’re a current Day One Premium customer, then update to Day One for iPhone or iPad, version 2025.23 or higher.

1. Connect Zapier from the Day One App

1. Tap your profile in the upper right corner, then scroll through Settings.
2. Tap Integrations, then Zapier.

3. On the next screen, tap Connect with Zapier.

4. Day One will redirect you to Zapier, where you can log in or create an account.
   

2. Authorize Zapier to connect with Day One

After signing in to Zapier, connect add Day One as an app connection.

5. From the upper right menu, tap App Connection. Tap Add Connection inside Zapier.

6. You’ll be redirected to Day One on the web to authenticate. Log in with your Day One account credentials.

7. Review the permissions screen titled “Authorize Zapier.”

Note: All of your journal data remains secure, private, and end-to-end encrypted. Zapier only writes data into Day One—it cannot read or export anything out.

3. Confirm your connection

8. You’ll see a confirmation message that Zapier has successfully connected. Tap Close to return to the app.
9. In Day One, the Zapier integration will now appear as Connected, and in Zapier you’ll see a new App Connection with your Day One user ID.

4. Start creating automations

You can now build automations that send content from your favorite apps into your journal. To get started, check out our list of 30 ready-to-use Zap templates.

After using the new Zapier integration for Day One, we’d love your feedback. Let us know what you think here.

Use Day One’s Prebuilt Zap Templates

To make it easy to get started, we’ve published over 30 ready-to-use automations, including templates for:

A Few Zap Setup Tips

When you’re ready to create your first automation, keep these tips in mind:

• While you can build automations on mobile, it’s often easier to create or edit them on desktop, especially when mapping multiple fields.
• Start with a trigger app you already actively use (like Gmail, Google Sheets, Slack, WordPress, Trello, or GitHub). Choose an event that represents something you’d want to capture in Day One.
• When connecting to Day One, choose Create Journal Entry and select which journal new entries should be saved to.
  • If your journals are encrypted, they’ll appear by journal ID instead of by name.
  • Journals appear in the same order as they do in the Day One app.
• Map fields from the trigger app (such as titles, body text, links, timestamps, email snippets, or metadata) into your journal entry.
• Use Markdown to format your entry with headings, lists, spacing, or links.
• Test the automation to make sure it looks right, then publish it so it runs automatically in the background.
• Remember that not all apps appear in Zapier. Zapier only supports apps with open or publicly accessible APIs, so availability depends on whether an app allows third-party integrations.
• Some automations may require Zapier Premium. Multi-step workflows or certain apps on Zapier may require a paid plan, depending on how the integration is set up.

Journaling That Works in the Background

With Zapier and Day One working together, your journal becomes a more complete reflection of your life. Whether you’re logging accomplishments, tracking creative projects, collecting research, or archiving your digital presence, automation makes journaling smoother, deeper, and more consistent.

Start exploring Day One + Zapier templates today and see how effortless journaling can become.

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