Easy Way To Transform Notes into Email Journals

Happy Friday! Today, let’s dive into a simple yet powerful technique that has made a huge difference in how I manage my notes and reflections: automating your notes to get daily journal entries in your email.

One Topic: Easy Email Journal Automation

I use Apple Notes extensively, organizing my thoughts into dozens of folders and subfolders. For example, I have a folder for professional writing with subfolders for my portfolio, blog posts, and more.

My personal writing has another set of folders for things like thoughts, journal entries, short stories, book snippets, and inspirational quotes.

Over the years, these notes have grown into thousands. But I realized that simply taking notes wasn’t enough. Interests change, projects shift, and it’s crucial to revisit and reflect on old notes periodically.

As my knowledge evolves, I often find new insights in past entries. However, it’s practically impossible to go through all my notes on a fixed schedule.

That’s where automation comes in.

I created a shortcut on my iPhone to automatically send me daily journal snippets from a selected folder on a regular schedule.

Now, I receive an email three times a week with a random note. Each email contains just one note, making it easy to read and reflect on. This small change has been incredibly useful.

If you’re into note-taking (and you should be), try setting up something similar. Here’s a screenshot of the shortcut if you want to configure it yourself. Or use my shortcut link to copy the shortcut directly.

There are also paid options like Readwise that work well too. Happy note-taking!

Two Quotes

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.”

“Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.”

One Passage

“The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders genuinely care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.”
From “Leaders Eat Last” by Simon Sinek

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