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From the first start to the first volume on the shelf.

This guide explains nexdiary the way you use it day to day. First you set up the server and invite your family. Then it is about the day itself, jotting things down while it happens and writing the page in the evening, with or without the AI, with a cover, photos and values. After that come looking back, sharing, the family question and time capsules, and at the end everything an account and running the server need.

Start with chapter 1 Go straight to notes

Every chapter stands on its own. You can start at the beginning or jump straight to whatever you are wondering about right now. Anything in quotation marks is named exactly that way in the app, so you can find the button again. The pictures show the English interface with an invented family. Jule writes, Paul is her partner, Mia her daughter and Ruth the grandmother.

Getting started

1
Setting upHow to start nexdiary with Docker, fetch the setup code from the log, create the first account and set up the second factor along with your recovery codes.
2
InvitingHow to create and pass on an invitation link, what the invited person does, and what helps with accounts for children and grandparents.
3
TourWhat lies behind Today, Journal, Photos, Statistics, Time capsules and Shared, and where to find My account and the operator's settings.
4
On your phoneHow to put nexdiary on your home screen, start straight in the quick note and share texts and links from other apps to nexdiary.

Writing

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NotesWriting notes, changing them and moving them to another day, answering the question of the day, noting after midnight and catching up on forgotten days.
6
Writing a pageThe writing view, the editor, your notes and questions beside the text, templates with fixed headings, and why nothing gets lost while you write.
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With AIHow the AI turns your notes into a suggestion for the page, asks first if you like, writes a page anew and can leave a draft ready every morning.
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PicturesThe cover of every day, your own photos, pictures in the middle of the text, photos from your own Immich and your collection under My photos.
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Values and tagsRating the day with values from 1 to 10, making values of your own, adding tags, and getting by with one sentence on tired days.
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LockingHow to lock a day for good so that nobody can change it any more, and how to delete a page without losing the notes of that day.

Remembering and sharing

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JournalThe journal as a blog or a timeline, searching your texts and notes, filtering by tag, and what a single day shows when you read it.
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Looking backA week as a strip of covers, a month as a collage, the best day and, if you like, a few sentences from the AI. Plus the statistics over your half year.
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StreakWhat the streak counts, how the writing goal sets how often a week you want to write, and how shields catch a missed day on their own.
14
Shelf and bookEvery year becomes a volume on the shelf that fills page by page. From a volume you make a PDF in A5 or A4, to print or to keep.
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SharingShare a single day with the people you choose, values and notes only if you want, a heart as the only reply, and take it back whenever you like.
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Family questionOne question a day for everybody who takes part. How to join and answer, why you read the others only afterwards, and what happens to your answers when you leave.
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Time capsulesWrite a letter with photos that opens only on a day you choose, to yourself or to others. What recipients see beforehand, and how to change it or take it back.
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RemindersSign a device up for Web Push, choose when nexdiary gives you a gentle nudge, what to know on an iPhone and what else arrives as a message.

Account and running it

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AccountProfile picture and display name, password, second factor and passkeys, signed-in devices, colours, light or dark, the layout of Today and the language.
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OperatorManage accounts, send a link to reset a password, allow the AI and Immich, set up mail and Web Push, and check with “Ready for the internet?” that all is well.
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BackupsHow nexdiary backs up every night, why the master key belongs to it but apart, how to restore, move and update, and what helps if you are the operator and forgot your password.
22
APIA token that only reads, for a card on a dashboard: how the operator allows it, how you make one and what the one route delivers today.

Good to knowOn a phone, everything that sits in the bar on the left on a computer moves to a bar at the bottom. Only “Photos” lives somewhere else there, in the round account button at the top right.