Journals on the sky
You can take one journal's constellation — its lines and name — off the sky, the home view of your entries, without changing the journal. You can also choose which journals the switch offers, and whether put-away journals show as ghosts.
The short list
- On the sky, tap "journals" — the book in the bottom-right corner. A row of chips opens beside it, one per journal around the stretch of sky you are looking at.
- Tap a journal's chip to take it off the sky: "“…” off the sky", with "undo". Tap it again to bring it back: "“…” back on the sky". "undo" also waits in the top-right corner, and once undone it offers "redo". See Undo & earlier versions.
- Tap the book again, or press back, to close the list. Back first closes a star's card, an entry's ⋯ menu or the ✛ choices if one is open in front.
Hold a chip to go into that journal: its page opens and its constellation draws itself. Holding "loose" opens the escritoire instead. A screen reader hears each chip end "hold to open it."
A chip shows the journal's star, its name and how many of its stars are on screen ("· 3"), or "· none here". A switched-off chip keeps its row, its star faded and its name struck through — told by shape, not colour.
"loose" is the same switch for every star in no journal.
"the escritoire ▸" closes the list and opens the escritoire, the desk where journals are made and kept. Holding the book goes there directly.
A star stays on the sky while any journal holding it is still on. What leaves is the switched-off journal's own lines and name.
Off the sky, the book goes straight to the escritoire.
A new star never vanishes
A star you have just made is never hidden the moment it is made.
- With "loose" switched off, making a new entry in no journal — holding empty sky, letting a shuttle item go on the sky, leaving compose on a new entry, or "✛ an entry" — switches "loose" back on: "loose stars are back on the sky".
- If a switched-off journal's gravity takes the new entry (Gold), that journal comes back on: "“‹name›” back on the sky".
- Either way there is "undo", which switches it off again; the star stays kept, only hidden. Then "redo" in the top-right corner switches it back on.
It doesn't happen for a journal you filed the entry into yourself, for entries ask the sky writes, for things shared in from other apps, or for the example journals.
Which journals get a chip
settings › "the sky" › "show journals for":
| choice | which journals |
|---|---|
| "present stars" | only journals with a star in the days on screen. This is where it starts |
| "current constellations" | also journals whose first and last entries straddle what is on screen, even if neither end shows |
| "all active journals" | every journal the sky can draw, even an empty one |
With nothing to list, the line follows the choice: "no stars on this stretch of sky", "no journal straddles this stretch of sky" or "no journals the sky can draw". Burning journals never appear.
Ghosts — "the reliquary in the sky"
The reliquary is the shelf where put-away journals are kept whole. settings › "the sky" › "the reliquary in the sky" — also on the reliquary's own shelf page — lets them back into the sky as ghosts:
- off (where it starts) — put-away journals keep their constellations out of the sky;
- on — each is drawn in dashed, fainter lines, with ▤ beside its name. Its chip in the short list wears "▤ " too.
A put-away entry never draws on the sky, switch or not.
See also.
The sky · The escritoire · The reliquary & the burn pile · Themes, colours & the sky's look