The Daylily
roadmap
growing in the open · 2026
Daylily is a journal for your own days, in your own words. This is what’s growing next. Everything here is being worked on, roughly in this order, and plans change with the seasons.
Richer days
Everything on this page is growing now. The order can change, and you can help change it.
Friday, October 23
The long way home
We took the river path because the light was too good to waste. Mara said nothing for a whole mile, and it was the nicest mile.
…and how did you feel about that?
Write with your voice
Speak your day and watch it become words, transcribed on your own computer. Keep the recording too, if you like.
A song for the day
Pin the song that was playing, from Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube. It plays right on the page.
Video, files and links
Videos and files beside your words, kept in the day’s folder. A pasted link becomes a small card with its title and picture.
Diagrams and more
Diagrams, math, callouts and footnotes, drawn on the page and kept as plain text any editor can read.
Make it yours
Your accent colour, your writing font and size, the width of the page. Turn off anything you don’t need.
Export and print
A year of days as a book you can print and hold, or the whole journal as a zip.
Bring your old journals
Import from Day One, Journey, Obsidian daily notes or a folder of markdown, and keep every day you’ve already written.
Your year, in review
Words written, favourite covers, the songs, the garden through the seasons. Made on your computer, kind to the days you missed.
AI that asks,
never writes
Off until you turn it on, one feature at a time, with the model you choose. It can ask you questions and look back with you. It will never write a word of your journal.
Your model, your choice
Bring a key from any provider, or run a model on your own computer. Nothing leaves without asking.
Look-backs
A week, a month, a year: what went right, what was hard, and the patterns you might have missed.
Highlights
The moments worth remembering, marked on pages you wrote. Not one of your words changes.
Covers from your words
A cover painted from what you wrote that day, only when you ask for one.
A terminal for agents
Run Claude Code, Codex or any tool on your journal folder, from inside Daylily. Hidden until you want it.
~/Daylily $ claude > when did I last write about the sea?
2026/08/14 · The long way home
Everywhere
you write
Signed, and up to date
Installers your Mac and Windows trust, with no warnings to click through.
Where you install apps
Daylily in Homebrew, winget and Flathub, next to the rest of your apps.
Sync, your way
Any synced folder works today. Next: a git commit at every seal, your own bucket, or Google Drive.
Sync, done for you
Your journal on every computer with nothing to set up, encrypted end to end. The paid part of Daylily.
On your phone, in bed
The same page and the same garden, for the nights you’d rather write lying down.
A locked journal
An optional password on your journal, for computers you share.
Codexes
Longer pieces, like essays, stories and letters, private until you choose to publish one on its own page.
Already in your garden
Today’s page, ghost prompts, sealing at 4am, plain files, the calendar and garden, the evening reminder.