Journalling Menubar App for Evernote?

[Stuart Bruff 3]

I currently journal with Day One via its MacOS Menubar app.   Would it be possible to add a similar Menubar feature to Evernote (plus the Windows equivalent)?

[DTLow 5,737]

For those of us not familiar with Day One, can you identify the menubar items   
   
Personally, I store my journal notes using the generic filing features provided by Evernote

[Stuart Bruff 3]

On 6/11/2021 at 9:11 PM, DTLow said:

For those of us not familiar with Day One, can you identify the menubar items   
   
Personally, I store my journal notes using the generic filing features provided by Evernote

Sure, the menubar allows the user to quickly make a basic entry into the Day One app without breaking workflow on the main screen(s).  Clicking on the menubar brings up a small Day One note window that allows the user to input text, (simple) format the text, set a tag, select a specific Journal and save the entry to the Day One database.   Opening the main application (on any connected Apple device) will show the note under the day's entries together with its date-time stamp and geolocation.

As indicated above, I'd like to replace Day One with Evernote, with Evernote adding new entries to a daily log note rather than creating a new note (even though that's what Day One is doing under its hood).   It could probably be automated in Evernote, but I'd rather not have anything that requires intervention or management on my part.

The Day One app's features are described at https://dayoneapp.com/features/.

[PinkElephant 8,241]

You can pin one note (being the daily log) for quick access to home, and you can add several notes to shortcuts for quick access.

[DTLow 5,737]

1 hour ago, Stuart Bruff said:

the menubar allows the user to quickly make a basic entry into the Day One app without breaking workflow on the main screen(s

Would that be like the Evernote Helper (Mac/Windows)

[Stuart Bruff 3]

On 6/13/2021 at 4:17 PM, DTLow said:

Would that be like the Evernote Helper (Mac/Windows)

Yes, but not quite.  AFAIA, the Evernote Helper adds a new note for each entry.  What I'd really like to see is each journal or diary note added to a single daily note.

[Stuart Bruff 3]

On 6/13/2021 at 3:26 PM, PinkElephant said:

You can pin one note (being the daily log) for quick access to home, and you can add several notes to shortcuts for quick access.

Yes, indeed.  but I'm trying to be both lazy and efficient - a combination I rarely achieve.  I don't want to switch to Evernote when I'm in the middle of doing something else just to make a journal entry.   As I've indicated elsewhere, what I'd like to see is each entry go straight into a daily note (possibly selectable to split "work" from "personal"). 

[DTLow 5,737]

11 minutes ago, Stuart Bruff said:

a single daily note

I actually do work with a daily journal note/dashboard   
It's created daily from a template and sets up my plans for the day

In addition, I create separate journal notes throughout the day

The complete journal for the day is generated by a saved search; tag;!Type-Journal and the date

 

[PinkElephant 8,241]

We can’t get around that EN is an app. Unless EN creates a widget that works without the app open, all actions are restricted to have the app running first.

For iOS shortcuts there are Widgets related to EN. They all send things into EN, some work for me, others not.

Maybe on a system that can make use of it (iOS), it is possible to create a shortcuts widget to do what is proposed above.

[Stuart Bruff 3]

On 6/15/2021 at 2:19 AM, PinkElephant said:

We can’t get around that EN is an app. Unless EN creates a widget that works without the app open, all actions are restricted to have the app running first.

For iOS shortcuts there are Widgets related to EN. They all send things into EN, some work for me, others not.

Maybe on a system that can make use of it (iOS), it is possible to create a shortcuts widget to do what is proposed above.

I'm not a OS Programmer, I'm afraid - embedded and scientific applications is where I direct my programming.  However, I don't understand what about Windows (and macOS/iOS) oblige Evernote itself to be open.  I've had a very quick browse of the EN API (https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/data_structure.php) and, on the face of it, it seems doable. 

Why can't a macOS menubar item and Windows equivalent, for example, login in to a user account and interface with the Evernote database to, say, insert a (automatically time-dated, located) note into a specific Journal Notebook.   Ideally, I'd like Evernote to insert each new entry into a single (auto-created) daily Note.   Alternatively, as with Day One, have a display that groups and sorts the Notes for each day (perhaps using the same method that EN uses to display Stacks, eg set the stack field to the Notes "journal" day?).

[Sand talk 12]

I use Day One and find the most powerful feature is the 'what happened a year ago on this day'. I wonder if tasks functionality could be used for this type of use automatically? I wouldn't want to create a reminder every day/journal entry but if it was inherited from a notebook it could work?