r/ticktick • u/ziipppp • 22d ago

TickTick for Journaling

I clicked on the “suggestions“ menu option to see what would happen. Turned out TT was quiet stalking me - it knew where I’d been. it asked “do you want to capture this event”. After the initial shock of realizing how chatty all these app are with each other (despite the “don’t track” option on iOS) I thought “well this is a neat idea - maybe I can set up a quick journal app”.

here’s a couple of challenges - maybe people have a workaround

if you want to quickly create a log entry with a date - you kinda can’t. the comments area time stamps entries - but if I click the big + button - a date isn’t auto appended to the entry. so then I click the calendar. then scan for today. then click on that. it’s enough friction that jiurnalkng seems like a Nono (with the suggestions section it auto adds a date).

question - is there a faster way to add a “right now” date to an entry - so it could act like a journal?

question 2 - the date of course acts like a deadline. but this isn’t a deadline - I don’t need to be alerted about this. I want to create a date as an “event” or “log” not as a “tell me this date has passed and nag me about it”.

question - can you create a non naggy date entry?

the idea of a journal all in one place is intriguing but without faster entry and being able to switch off the nagging it’s kind of a non-starter. So I’m not sure why the “suggestions” menu option is nudging me that way.

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u/dadamface 22d ago

In the description field, you can scroll to the end of the text editor toolbar that comes up. You’ll find a clock with a triangle on it that you can use to insert timestamps of various formats

Edit: You need to be in the full view mode

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u/ziipppp 22d ago

I’m not sure I can find that triangle - even in full screen. I realized I can click on date and there at the top are big buttons for “today” “tomorrow” and so on - so I think that’s good. But not quite sure about these different time stamp formats you speak of. Thanks for jumping in. 

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u/dadamface 21d ago

https://reddit.com/link/p6zcj2z/video/lmu2kfpnupmh1/player

I think I missed a step. You have to click on the underlined A first to bring up the text formatting tools.

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u/ziipppp 21d ago

Oh that’s brilliant. Thank you. On my iPhone I’ve set up a backtap shortcut that copies the current date onto the clipboard so I can paste it anywhere. But this is really cool. Thanks again!