Section 1

Daily, Monthly & Future

These three logs are the heart of Nisshi. They mirror the Bullet Journal idea of three time horizons: the Future Log for the years ahead, the Monthly Log for the current month, and the Daily Log for today. Items flow downward as they get closer — from a vague future intention, to a plan for a month, to a task you do on a specific day.

The three entry types

Every log lets you add three kinds of entry, picked from the Task / Note / Event chips in the add bar:

Task — a to-do. Tap its bullet to cycle open → done (×) → cancelled (⊘) → open. Only tasks can be completed, repeated, or migrated.

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Note — a piece of information. It has no done state.

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Event (filled ● when it happens) — something scheduled. Marking an event done doesn't strike it out — it still happened.

Migrated tasks show >; scheduled ones show <. Cancelled and done tasks appear struck through.

Actions on any entry

Long-press an entry for its menu:

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Mark priority / Remove priority — flags it with a yellow star.

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Indent / Unindent — nests it under the entry above, for sub-items.

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Edit — change the text, switch its type, adjust time/day/photos/location/repeat.

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Delete — moves it to Trash (a "Moved to Trash" toast with Undo appears). Nothing is erased outright — recover it from More → Trash.

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Reactivate — brings a migrated entry back to open.

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History — the full change log for that entry.

Typing a URL turns it into a tappable link. Typing @ suggests people (see Section 4).

Past entries are read-only by default (past days, months, and elapsed quarters). Turn on Settings → Journal → Edit past entries to unlock them. One exception: a leftover open task on a past day can always be migrated forward.

Daily Log

One day at a time. The top bar shows Today / Yesterday / Tomorrow with the date, a calendar button to jump to any date, a Today button, an All entries agenda, and Search. Swipe left/right to move between days.

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Untimed tasks sit at the top under Anytime; timed entries are grouped into 15-minute slots.

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Add with the bottom bar: pick a type, type your text, tap send. Tasks can be Anytime or given a time; notes and events always carry a time.

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Photos — up to 10 per entry, from the camera or your library. A thumbnail with a count badge appears on the row; tap it for a full-screen, swipeable, pinch-to-zoom viewer.

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Location — attach a place from the composer or the entry menu; it links out to Apple Maps.

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Repeat — in Edit, a task can repeat Daily / Weekly / Monthly / Yearly, ending on a date or after a set number of times. Delete future repeats clears the rest of the series.

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Migrate to… pushes an open task to a later day. Copy to day… duplicates it (text, time, priority, photos, location) without touching the original.

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All entries — an endless day-by-day agenda with search and filters (Type: All/Tasks/Notes/Events; State: Pending/Done/Cancelled/Migrated).

Monthly Log

One month at a time (e.g. "August 2026"). Navigate with the calendar picker, the current-month button, or by swiping.

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Monthly tasks (no specific day) sit at the top; events and notes are grouped under day headers like "5 Mon".

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Add tasks for the month as a whole; give notes and events a day with the day-picker pill.

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Migrate to day… sends a task down into the Daily Log on a chosen date. Migrate to month… reschedules it. Copy to month… duplicates it.

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Monthly entries can carry a location but no photos.

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Its own All entries agenda works like the Daily one.

Future Log

A single long list, split into quarters (e.g. "Q3 · 2026 · Jul–Sep"), running three years back to five years ahead. It opens on the current quarter; past quarters are locked.

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Add Task/Note/Event to any open quarter; new items land in that quarter's first month. Future entries have no day or time.

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Migrate to month… sends an item down into the Monthly Log. Migrate to quarter… moves it within the Future Log. Copy to month… / Copy to quarter… duplicate it.

How items flow: Future → Monthly → Daily

When you migrate, the original is marked migrated (>) and stays visible, while a fresh open copy — carrying its priority, indent, and location — is created at the destination. Only open tasks migrate. Copy does the same but leaves the original active.

Reminders

Because Daily entries are timed, Nisshi can remind you (all opt-in in Settings → Notifications): a lead-time alert before each task or event, a general "review today's open tasks" nudge, and an app-icon badge counting today's open tasks.

Section 2

Daily Goals (Scorecard)

The Scorecard is Nisshi's habit tracker. You define a handful of questions to answer every day, answer them in a few taps, and watch streaks and trends build over time.

Setting up questions

The gear icon opens Scorecard questions; + adds one. Each question has:

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Question — what you're tracking (e.g. "Did I exercise?").

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Answer type — Yes/No, Scale 1–5, Scale 0–10, or Number.

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Unit — for Number questions only (e.g. "glasses", "km").

Reorder questions by dragging. Deactivate one to stop it appearing each day while keeping its history; reactivate it any time.

Answering each day

On the Daily screen, a Daily Scorecard card shows "X of Y answered" (or Completed). Tap it to answer:

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Yes/No → green Yes / red No buttons.

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Scale → a row of number pills.

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Number → a numeric field with its unit.

You can edit any past day's answers the same way.

Tracking over time

Once you have questions, the Scorecard screen becomes a dashboard:

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Overall: current streak, longest streak, and 30-day completion rate. A day counts toward a streak only when every active question was answered.

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Per question: charts appear after 3 days of data — Yes-rate and streaks for Yes/No, averages, trend arrows and line charts for Number, gauges and trend chips for scales.

A daily Scorecard reminder (Settings → Notifications) nudges you if you haven't filled it in — and stays quiet once you have.

Section 3

Collections

A Collection is your own container for anything that doesn't fit the daily journal — reading lists, recipes, trip notes, ideas. Collections appear as a reorderable list.

Two kinds

When you tap + → New Collection, choose a type:

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Open Text — one long Markdown document. Write freely.

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Structured — a list of separate entries, optionally from a template.

Then give it a title. Structured collections can start from a template or an empty entry.

There's also a built-in Inbox (envelope icon) that catches anything you share into Nisshi from other apps. It's pinned and can't be renamed or deleted.

Open Text collections

A Markdown reader with an Edit mode. The editing toolbar gives Bold, Italic, Heading, Bullet list, Task (checkbox), and Link, plus a Preview toggle. Done saves.

Structured collections

A list of entries, each showing its Markdown text, optional location, date, and a photo thumbnail.

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+ adds an entry (pre-filled from the template, if any). The entry editor has the same formatting toolbar and preview, plus Add Location and up to 10 photos.

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Long-press an entry for Copy to… / Move to… (another collection), Share, and Delete (to Trash, with Undo).

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Sort: Newest first, Oldest first, or Custom Order (drag to arrange). Your choice is remembered per collection.

Templates

The Templates button manages reusable entry starters — each with a Name and Prefill text. A structured collection can adopt one when created, or change it later via Change Template.

Managing & reminders

Long-press a collection for Rename, Change Template, and Delete; drag to reorder. A Daily collection reminder (Settings → Notifications) surfaces one random entry a day from a chosen collection — never repeating until you've seen them all — and tapping it opens that entry.

Section 4

People

People helps you stay in touch. Each person is a short note you write, and Nisshi automatically links them to your journal whenever you mention them with an @handle (e.g. @Maria) in an entry.

The People list

Everyone you've added, sorted into Overdue, On track, and No cadence. Each row shows the name and a status line like "8 weeks ago · every 6 weeks · 14 days over" — time since last contact, your check-in cadence, and how overdue you are.

Adding someone

The + button opens an editor pre-filled with a Person template: a name, an Every: 6 weeks cadence (days/weeks/months — this drives the overdue tracking), and an ## Ask about section for talking points. Sort the list by longest-since-contact, most-recent, or name.

Per-person history

Tap a person to open their card: their handle, last-contact date, your Ask about notes, and — pulled automatically from your @mentions — their Open tasks, Upcoming items, and Recent entries. Nisshi never writes into the note; you keep the "Ask about" list yourself.

@mentions

While writing an entry, type @ and a name to pick from a strip of people chips. That's what links the entry to the person and updates their last-contact date. People is created automatically the first time you open it.

Section 5

Photo & Location Rolls

Two scrolling timelines that gather everything you've attached across your journal.

Photos

Every photo from your entries, in one continuous scroll, newest day first, grouped under sticky day headers, each entry shown as a thumbnail mosaic.

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Opens on today. A timeline scrubber on the right edge (with month labels) jumps you quickly through time.

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Tap a photo for a full-screen viewer you can page and Share from.

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The chevron (›) on an entry jumps to that day in the Daily log.

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Filter photos searches entry text, location, and date live.

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Select enters multi-select mode to check photos and Share them together.

Locations

Every entry that has a place, in the same day-grouped timeline. Each card shows the entry text, the place name with category · address · time, and a map thumbnail with a pin.

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Tap the place or map to open it in Apple Maps; the chevron jumps to that day.

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Filter locations searches text, place, address, category, and date.

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This roll is read-only — browse, don't edit.

Section 6

Settings

All settings live under More → Settings.

Appearance

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Theme — System, Light, or Dark.

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Color scheme — Classic, Forest, Sunset, Ocean, Berry, or Slate. (Schemes apply in light mode; dark mode keeps the original colors.)

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Menu Order — drag to reorder the eight sections (Daily, Monthly, Future, Collections, Scorecard, Photos, Locations, People). The first four become your bottom tab bar; the rest go under More. Trash, Data Backup, and Settings always stay in More.

Security

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Auto-lock — how long the app can sit in the background before re-locking: Immediately, 1 / 5 / 15 minutes, or Never.

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Change password — requires your current password; new one must be 8+ characters.

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View recovery phrase — reveals your 24-word recovery phrase after a Face ID / password check. These words are the only way back into your journal if you forget your password — keep them private.

Siri & Search

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Toggle to make entries searchable in Spotlight and Siri, even while the app is locked. Shows indexing progress.

Journal

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Edit past entries — unlock past days, months, and quarters for editing.

Notifications

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Scorecard reminder (with time), Task badge, Task reminders and Event reminders (each with a lead-time picker), and Daily collection reminder (with collection and time). A banner offers to enable notifications if they're off in iOS.

Apple Watch

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Mirror today's Daily log to a paired Apple Watch, and let the watch change status or add notes.

About & Danger zone

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App version and build. The Danger zone holds Erase all data, which permanently deletes everything and your encryption key, and resets the app to first-run.

Unlocking

The lock screen offers Unlock with Face ID / Touch ID, Use password instead, and Recover with secret words (the 24-word phrase). The whole journal is encrypted; unlocking is what decrypts it.

Section 7

Data Backup

Under More → Data Backup, with three parts: Sync, Export, and Restore. Nisshi also keeps deleted items in Trash.

Sync (optional)

Sync is off by default. Connect to the Nisshi service (or your own server) with an enrollment code the first time; after that your journal syncs automatically. Everything is end-to-end encrypted before it leaves your device — the server never sees your data.

When connected you get Sync now, Verify sync (an integrity check), Review sync conflicts if any arise, and Disconnect (which forgets the server and keeps your data on-device).

Export

Two ways to get your data out:

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Export all data (.md) — a plain-text, human-readable Markdown copy of every entry. Good for reading or moving your data elsewhere. It's unencrypted, so it's not a secure backup.

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Export encrypted backup — a password-protected .nisshibackup archive (a full encrypted snapshot). This is the one to keep for safekeeping; restore it on any device with your app password.

You can also set Delete history after (1/3/6 months, 1 year, or Never) to trim the change-history trail — your entries are never affected.

Restore

Restore from backup merges a .nisshibackup file into your current data, newest-wins per item — it never deletes newer local data. On a different device you'll be asked for the password that protected the backup. It restores all entries, collections, photos, templates, and scorecard data.

Trash

Deleting anything (an entry, a photo, a whole collection) moves it to Trash rather than erasing it. From there:

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Restore returns an item to its original place.

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Delete permanently removes it for good; Empty clears the whole Trash.

If you use sync, permanent deletion needs a connection so the item is removed on the server too and can't reappear on another device.

Still stuck on something?

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