In software-supported journaling, the medium shapes the method: certain tools encourage daily cadence, others graph connections between notes, some enforce creative constraints, and others protect privacy with strong encryption. Below are well-known, workshop-friendly forms tied to specific tools and workflows.
> **Note:** there is a docker based open source personal note taking system that is being promoted - find the link. Also emphasise what we aim / can build with wiki and the importance of being able to craft our own direction within Hitchhikers.
# Daily Journals
Plain, multimedia, or prompts:
- **Day One** — cross-platform private diary with media, tags, maps, and prompts. Good for image-rich and audio entries - Day One 
- **Apple Journal** — iPhone/iPad/Mac app with on-device suggestions, media, and wellbeing integrations; useful for quick reflective captures - Apple Journal
# Creative Constraint Journals
To beat resistance
- **750 Words** — “morning pages” style daily 750-word freewrite with streaks and gentle stats - 750 Words
- **The Most Dangerous Writing App** — type nonstop or lose your text; ideal for sprinting past the inner editor - The Most Dangerous Writing App
**Personal Wiki Journals (shareable, forkable)** - **TiddlyWiki** — single-file personal wiki you can carry and customize; great for modular, linked journal “tiddlers.” https://tiddlywiki.com TiddlyWiki - **Federated Wiki** — journal as hypercards you and others can fork and remix across sites. https://fed.wiki.org/federated-wiki.html Federated Wiki
# Standard Notes
End-to-end encrypted notes; set up a daily template for private text-only journaling - Standard Notes
# Zettelkasten-style Journaling (idea networks)
- **Obsidian** — Markdown vault with backlinks; pair Daily Notes with Zettelkasten IDs and link emergent ideas for later drafts - Obsidian and Obsidian Plugins
- **Logseq** — outliner + knowledge graph; use Daily Journals and page/block links to evolve a thinking log into essays - Logseq
- **Roam Research** — daily-notes-first graph notebook; great for associative journaling and topic weaving - Roam Research
- **Zettlr** — FOSS Markdown workbench with built-in Zettelkasten IDs; good for academic or long-form pipelines - Zettlr
- **Org-mode + Org-roam (Emacs)** — plain-text journal with capture templates, datetrees, and a Zettelkasten graph - Org-mode and Org-roam