Notaday Documentation

Notaday is a focused productivity workspace for capturing tasks, routines, ideas, and personal reflections in one place. It combines a fast daily timeline, a backlog for later, a journal, a Daybreak AI briefing, a daily shutdown ritual, channels, tags, and an API-token system for third-party integrations.

What Notaday Helps With

Capture tasks, routines, journal notes, and ideas without deciding where everything belongs first.
Keep today's work visible in the Timeline while saving non-urgent items in the Backlog.
Organize entries with channels, tags, due dates, completion state, and connections between related entries.
Build a journaling practice with mood, location, weather, reflection prompts, handwriting, and a distraction-free editor.
Start the day with Daybreak, a Pro AI briefing for today's priorities, upcoming work, and stale journal updates.
End the day with a guided Daily Shutdown that pre-fills a new journal entry.
Allow third-party tools to create, read, update, and organize Notaday data using API tokens.

Documentation Map

User Guide

guides/getting-started/

Start here if you use Notaday day to day.

Get More Out Of Notaday

guides/get-more-out-of-notaday/

Join the Discord community, install the Raycast extension, connect the Claude MCP server, or get the macOS and iPhone apps.

Features

features/timeline/

Detailed feature behavior for Timeline, Backlog, Journal, Shutdown, Settings, Profile, channels, and tags.

Developer Guide

developers/overview/

Authentication, API-token usage, endpoint reference, examples, and integration patterns.

Application Areas

Area	Purpose
Timeline	Main workspace for active tasks, routines, and optionally journal entries.
Daybreak	Pro AI daily briefing for tasks, routines, upcoming work, and stale journal updates.
Backlog	Holding area for ideas and work saved for later.
Journal	Free reflective writing space with mood, context metadata, handwriting, and PDF export; AI Assist, summaries and sharing are Pro.
Daily Shutdown	Guided end-of-day flow that starts a prepared journal entry.
Profile	Account, plan, coupon, payment, API-token, logout, and deletion controls.
Settings	Timeline preferences, journal visibility, theme selection, and future notification controls.
Get more out of Notaday	Sidebar action with shortcuts to Discord, the Raycast extension, the Claude MCP server, the macOS app, and the iPhone app.

Technology Summary

The application uses a Vue frontend, a NestJS backend, MongoDB through Mongoose models, JWT authentication, Google login, PayPal/coupon based Lifetime Pro activation, and Swagger-generated backend API metadata.

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