You could, if you want, also add footnotes, comments, and more, but it's probably best to keep your journal simple. You can enter text, and you can also drag photos or links to web pages. It will look something like this:Īfter you insert a date at the top of a file in your journal project, you can just press return and start writing. In Scrivener, you can do this easily from the keyboard: just press Command-Option-Shift-D (Mac) or Win+Alt+Shift+D (Win) to insert the date and time according to your system's long date and short time format. Most people, when keeping a journal, want to record the date of their journal entries. When completed, you'll have something like this:
If you choose Manage Custom Icons from the contextual menu, you can use your own photos or icons for your project. You can also add custom icons to any of these texts or folders to do this, right-click on an item and choose Change Icon, and select from one of the many icons available. Press Command-N (Mac) or Ctrl+N (Win) to create a new text. You may want to add some additional files, outside your monthly folders you can do this by adding new texts and dragging them to the top, above the Journal folder. You can choose to have a single file per month, or multiple files. Its name is highlighted, and you might want to name it January, or 1, or something else. Select the January folder and press Return this creates a new text document in that folder. Continue until you have new folders for each month of the year.
Now, press Command-Option-N (Mac) or Alt+Shift+N (Win) another new folder appears. Next, Choose Project > New Folder, and a new folder will appear below the Journal folder, with its name highlighted. Double-click the Draft folder and name it Journal, or something else if you prefer.
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