| name | journal |
| description | Create and manage local journal entries to track activities and notes. Tools: journal. |
Journal Skill
Create and manage journal entries to track activities, events, and notes. Each entry has a creation timestamp, optional date range, category, title, and details.
Tool: journal
All journal operations use the journal tool.
Data format: Each entry contains:
- Creation timestamp (automatic)
- Optional date from / date to (Unix timestamps in milliseconds)
- Category (text)
- Title/heading
- Details/description
Workflow: Create a journal entry
Examples: "Make an entry in the journal that I went jogging today" / "Journal entry: I finished the project"
journal → create with:
title: A short heading (e.g. "Jogging", "Project completed")
category: A category name (e.g. "Exercise", "Work", "Personal")
details: The full description
date_from (optional): Start date as Unix timestamp in milliseconds
date_to (optional): End date as Unix timestamp in milliseconds
- Confirm: "Journal entry created: {title}"
Important: When the user mentions a date or time, use the datetime tool to calculate the Unix timestamp (milliseconds). Do NOT calculate dates manually.
For date calculations:
- Use
datetime tool with action: "now" to get current time (Unix timestamp in milliseconds)
- Use
datetime tool with action: "absolute" for absolute dates:
base: Enum value ("today", "tomorrow", "yesterday", "next_monday"–"next_sunday", "next_january"–"next_december"), Unix timestamp in milliseconds (number), or ISO date/datetime string (e.g. "2024-03-15", "2024-03-15T14:00:00")
time (optional): "HH:MM" or "HH:MM:SS" format (e.g. "09:00")
anchor (optional): "beginofday", "endofday", "beginofweek", "endofweek", "beginofmonth", "endofmonth"
output_unit: "milliseconds" (required for journal entries)
- Use
datetime tool with action: "add" or action: "subtract" for relative dates (base can also be ISO string or timestamp)
Examples:
- "today" →
datetime absolute with base: "today", output_unit: "milliseconds"
- "yesterday" →
datetime absolute with base: "yesterday", output_unit: "milliseconds"
- "last week" → Calculate date range using
datetime subtract with base: "today", amount: 7, unit: "day" for start, and datetime absolute with base: "today" for end
- "from Monday to Friday" → Use
datetime absolute with base: "next_monday" and base: "next_friday" for both dates
Workflow: List all journal entries
Examples: "Show me my journal entries" / "What's in my journal?"
journal → list
- Display all entries sorted by creation time (newest first)
- Format: "[ID] Date | Category | Title"
Workflow: List entries by category
Examples: "Show me journal entries in category Work" / "What journal entries are in the Exercise category?"
journal → list_by_category with category: "{category_name}"
- Display filtered entries sorted by creation time (newest first)
Workflow: Get a specific entry
Examples: "Show me journal entry {id}" / "What's in journal entry {id}?"
journal → get with entry_id: "{id}"
- Display full entry details
Workflow: Delete an entry
Examples: "Delete journal entry {id}" / "Remove journal entry {id}"
journal → delete with entry_id: "{id}"
- Confirm: "Journal entry deleted"
Examples
- "Make an entry in the journal that I went jogging today" → create entry with category "Exercise" or "Personal", title "Jogging", details "I went jogging today"
- "Journal entry: I finished the project" → create entry with appropriate category and title
- "Show me my journal entries" → list all entries
- "What journal entries are in the Work category?" → list by category
- "Delete journal entry {id}" → delete entry
Category suggestions
Common categories users might use:
- "Work" – Work-related activities
- "Personal" – Personal activities
- "Exercise" – Physical activities
- "Health" – Health-related events
- "Travel" – Travel and trips
- "Notifications" – Automatically created by notification sub-agents
- "Scheduler" – Automatically created by scheduler sub-agents
The category is free-form text, so users can use any category name they prefer.