Create Entries with Email

You can create journal entries by sending an email to Day One. This feature is available on iOS, Android, and Web. When you enable it, each of your journals gets a unique email address — send an email to that address, and a Day One entry will be created. This feature is exclusive to our Silver or Gold plan. This feature is not yet available on our Mac app.

On iOS: Go to Settings > Email to Journal to find the unique email address for each journal.

On Android: Go to Settings > Email to Journal to find the unique email address for each journal.

On Web: Go to Settings > Account. Under the Integrations section, find Email to Journal to see the unique email address for each journal.

There is a link to save the email as a contact. When you save a journal email to your Contacts app, an image is automatically placed in the contact with the Day One logo and the color matching the specific journal color. Then email that address, and a Day One entry will be created.

Email entries will work with encrypted journals.

Emailing an entry does support the same Markdown options we currently support.

Using Hashtags (Tags)

You can add tags to email entries using the #hashtag syntax in the body of your email. Keep in mind these limitations:

• Single-word tags only. Tags are parsed up to the first space — #morningwalk or #morning-walk will create the tag as written, but #morning walk would only capture morning as a tag.
• Multi-word tags must be added manually. There is no email syntax that creates a tag containing a space. To add a multi-word tag, open the entry in the app after it is created and use the tag picker.
• Avoid placing hashtags on the first line. A hashtag at the very beginning of the email body may be parsed as a Markdown heading. Place hashtag tags after at least one line of body text.

Enable Image Attachments

Image attachments are turned off by default. You can enable them on iOS, Android, or Web:

On iOS: Go to Settings > Email to Journal, select a journal, and turn on the Include Images toggle.

On Android: Go to Settings > Email to Journal, select a journal, and turn on the Attachments toggle.

On Web: Go to Settings > Account, scroll to Integrations > Email to Journal, select a journal, and turn on the Include Images toggle.

Currently, journals can receive and store image attachments sent via email in the following formats:

• PNG
• JPEG

Note: Non-image attachments will be ignored and not processed.

Location

Your location is not added to entries created by email. There is no setting to turn this on, and no way to include a location in the email itself. The Auto Add Location setting applies to entries you create in the app, and does not affect entries that arrive by email. The same is true for entries created by text message.

To add a location to an emailed entry, edit the entry after it arrives in the app. You can do this one entry at a time on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Android, or select several entries and set the location for all of them at once on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. For the steps, see Editing an Entry’s Location. Editing an entry’s location is not currently possible in the Web or Windows apps.

Turning Off Email to Journal (Disconnect Email)

You can’t currently disconnect a journal’s email address yourself in the Day One app, on any platform. This includes turning off Email to Journal or removing or deleting the address. If you tap Disconnect Email in Settings > Email to Journal, the app points you to support instead of removing the address.

To disconnect an email address, contact our support team with the Journal ID of each journal you’d like disconnected. Journal names aren’t visible in our support tools, so we need the Journal ID to find the right journal. Where to find the Journal ID differs by platform. Follow the steps in Locating a Journal ID: https://dayoneapp.com/guides/troubleshooting/locating-a-journal-id/. Once an address is disconnected, emails sent to it no longer create entries in that journal.