David Allen's Getting Things Done calls the weekly review "the critical success factor" — the habit that makes every other habit work. Journals are the same: writing is the deposit, re-reading is the interest. Most people never collect.
The ten-minute weekly review
- Scroll the week in the Timeline — every entry in order, searchable.
- Check the goals: daily, weekly, monthly — what got checked, what keeps not getting checked? (A goal missed three weeks straight isn't a discipline problem; it's the wrong goal.)
- Write the Sunday line: one entry summarizing the week — future-you's table of contents.
On This Day: the long look back
Reviews cover the week; On This Day covers the years. Open any date and Dayleaf shows what you wrote on that same date across every year you've kept the journal — last year's worry (resolved), two years ago's dinner (still funny). It's the feature that turns a journal from a habit into a relationship with your own history.
Search is a review tool
Wondering when the back pain started, what you thought of that restaurant, or how last year's launch actually felt? Full-text search across every planner answers in a keystroke — the kind of recall paper never had.