Feature Introduction
Lifelog is a powerful, privacy-focused, local-first diary and note-taking application, designed to help you easily record the bits and pieces of your life, and to review and cherish your memories in multiple ways.

Core Recording Functions
Powerful Rich Text Editor
- Multi-format text: Supports multiple text styles such as headings, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, quotes, and code blocks.
- Lists and checklists: Easily create ordered lists, unordered lists, and checkable to-do lists.
- Custom styles: Adjustable font, font size, line spacing, and paragraph spacing to create the most comfortable reading and writing experience.
- Quick toolbar: Provides a customizable floating toolbar with frequently used functions within reach, and supports multi-line display.
Rich and Diverse Media Support
- Images and Live Photos: Easily insert photos and Live Photos from the album, with support for image editing and cropping.
- Video and Audio: Supports adding videos and recording/importing audio files to make your records vivid with sound and color.
- Attachment support: Can add attachments in various formats such as PDF, Word documents, and compressed packages.
- Speech-to-text: Quickly convert your voice recordings into text for easy organization and searching.
Smart and Assisted Creation
- Diary templates: Built-in multiple diary templates (e.g., movie reviews, daily reflections), and supports creating and sharing your own templates.
- Mood and weather: Add mood icons, Emoji, or weather conditions to each diary to intuitively capture the emotion of the moment.
- Auto-save: All content is automatically saved in real-time, so there's no need to worry about losing content.
- Word count: View the word count of the current note in real-time, and provides detailed daily, monthly, and yearly writing statistics charts.
Organization and Browsing
Multi-dimensional Browsing Methods
- Timeline view: Browse all diaries in reverse or chronological order, with support for quick monthly jumps.
- Calendar view: Intuitively display daily records in a calendar format, and allows for customizing the calendar cover photo.
- Map view: View all diaries with geographic locations on a map, creating your own personal footprint map.
- Media gallery: Centrally browse all images and videos from your notes.
- "Wander": Randomly review past diaries in a stacked card format to discover forgotten surprises.
Powerful Organization and Management Capabilities
- Notebooks: Create multiple independent notebooks to completely isolate content on different topics (such as work, life, travel).
- Multi-level tag system: Classify diaries using tags, supporting the creation of hierarchical tags (parent-child tags) for more refined management.
- Diary series: Link multiple related diaries into a storyline for continuous reading and reviewing of a complete event.
- Pinning function: Pin important diaries to the top for quick access.
- Batch operations: Supports multi-selecting diaries for batch operations like deleting, moving, adding/removing tags, and merging into a diary series.
Efficient Search Function
- Full-text search: Quickly search diary content, comments, and diary series titles.
- Advanced filtering: Supports combined filtering by tags, geographic location, and diary type (diary/comment/diary series).
Personalization and Customization
Interface and Appearance
- Theme mode: Supports three modes: light, dark, and follow system settings.
- Custom fonts: Supports importing and using your own favorite font files.
- Display adjustment: Freely adjust the home page view (timeline/calendar/cards, etc.), text line height, paragraph spacing, and image display style (nine-square grid/waterfall).
- Timeline style: Provides multiple timeline date display styles to meet different aesthetic preferences.
Special Features
- On This Day: Review content recorded on the same day in past years.
- Annual Report: Generate your annual writing summary report.
- Desktop widgets: Quickly access "Wander", "Latest Notes", "On This Day", and other content from your phone's home screen.
Data and Security
Privacy and Security
- Local-first: All data is stored on your device locally by default, ensuring privacy and security.
- App lock: Supports setting a password and biometric (Face/Fingerprint ID) to lock the application.
- Privacy view: Automatically blurs the app interface when entering the background to prevent information leaks.
Backup and Sync
- iCloud: Back up and sync data via your personal iCloud Drive.
- WebDAV: Supports backing up to your own NAS or other cloud services via the WebDAV protocol.
- Aliyun Drive: Provides Aliyun Drive as an additional backup option.
- Automatic backup: Can automatically perform backup tasks when the app is opened for recording.
Import and Export
- Data export: Export all data (including media files) as a single .zip archive for easy migration and storage.
- PDF export: Export diaries as beautifully formatted PDF files based on a specified time range and tags.
- Data import: Supports restoring all data from a backup .zip file.
Sharing
- Image sharing: Generate beautiful long images of a single diary or an entire diary series for sharing.
- Calendar sharing: Generate images of monthly or yearly calendar views for sharing.