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title: "The journal"
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The journal is Mimir's home page: a feed of daily entries, today on top,
earlier days loading as you scroll down. It's where you write by default,
and every past day stays exactly as you left it.

## Writing today's entry

Open Mimir and you're already there: today's date at the top of the feed,
caret ready in an empty line. Type.

- **Return** starts a new line (a new bullet).
- **Tab** indents the current line under the one above it, turning it into
  a child note. **Shift-Tab** outdents it back out.
- **On a touchscreen**, drag a note sideways to indent it. It settles at
  each indent it can take, with a tick you can feel as it lands. You can
  cross several levels in one drag. A note stays at its own indent until
  you pull it clear, so a small slip doesn't move it. Release to keep the
  new indent, or drag it back to where it started.
- **Typing `[[`** starts a link to another page. See
  [Pages & wikilinks](/pages-and-wikilinks).

Today's date follows the international format `YYYY-MM-DD`, for example
`2026-09-09`, so it reads the same regardless of where you are or what
language your device is set to.

There's no save button. Mimir writes every keystroke to its database as
you type. Closing the app or losing power doesn't lose your place.

## Revisiting a past day

Scroll down from today and earlier days load automatically, each one
older than the last. Every day you ever wrote in Mimir is part of the same
feed. Nothing is archived out of reach.

Each day shows what links to it, right underneath that day's notes. A
past entry can surface again when something later links to it. See
[Pages & wikilinks](/pages-and-wikilinks) for how linking works.

To jump straight to a specific day, link to its date the same way you'd
link to any page, for example `[[2026-07-01]]`. Clicking the link takes
you to that day. If you never wrote anything that day, Mimir creates an
empty entry for it.

## Jumping back to today

Press **Cmd/Ctrl-J** to go straight back to today's entry, without
scrolling all the way back up by hand.

On iPhone and iPad, you can also pull down past the top of the feed to
open [search](/search-and-find). When you're looking for a specific day or
note, that's often faster than scrolling.

If the keyboard is up, pulling down doesn't open search. The search button in
the keyboard toolbar lights up as you pull instead. Tap it to open search.