Record types

Keep events that occurred and future plans/schedules in the diary, and lasting knowledge and source documents in the wiki. This guide explains where to write content and how to distinguish dates, goals and sources.

Diary and wiki

The main record areas are Diary and Wiki. Events, plans, schedules, goals and reference documents are not separate top-level menus.

• Diary: Collect events and decisions, future plans and schedules. Existing diary-style entries are also found here.
• Wiki: Collect work knowledge, explanations of people, projects and terms, procedures, goals and reference documents.
• Event: Something that actually happened or was reported by someone as having happened. Record decisions, discussion, work results and occurrence time.
• Plan/schedule: Intended future work or commitments. Manage states such as tentative, confirmed, cancelled or completed and dates separately from events.
• Goal: A desired result, managed through wiki goal metadata. It can remain without a date.
• Reference document: Original minutes, reports or external materials kept as text. These appear in the wiki. They are not file assets such as images or PDFs.

Write for your purpose

Record something that happened

1. Select Create diary in New record.
2. Enter the title, Summary or source excerpt, and occurrence time.
3. Distinguish a direct excerpt from an edited summary under Summary type.
4. If a source exists, choose the source record under Links and save. You do not need to invent a source for a directly written record.

Organize reusable information

1. Select Create wiki in New record and write a title and Markdown body.
2. If this is a canonical page for a person, organization, project, resource or topic, choose its type under Organization and links › Target type. Leave ordinary explanations as General document.
3. Add actual records through Internal links, then save.

Open existing reference documents from the wiki list to read their body and sources. If Common template appears in the editor, you can use it for writing, but read the confirmation about replacing existing content first. Do not assume a newly created wiki and an existing reference document have the same storage kind.

Font size and indentation

Use − / numeric font-size menu / + in the reader toolbar and above the Markdown editor to select 14–22 in 0.5 steps. The numeric menu also lets you choose directly. The minus control is disabled at the minimum, and plus at the maximum. Reader and editor share the same archive setting; changes apply immediately and persist after reopening. Font-size changes do not change document content, selection or revision.

Use four spaces for each level of a nested list. Align continuing explanations with the item’s text column. Numbered lists display the entered numbers; checkboxes are read-only.

1. Prepare the review
    - Read the source
        - [ ] Mark items to check
2. Summarize results
   This explanation continues the same item.

Wrap code in standalone fences of at least three backticks or tildes and preserve internal whitespace. Arbitrary indentation-based layout and complex tables, quotations or code containers nested in lists are not supported. External AI writing guidance is alfred-document-markdown.

Manage a goal

1. Create or edit a wiki and expand Organization and links.
2. Turn on Manage as a goal and choose Goal status: in progress, achieved or on hold.
3. Enter a Goal date if needed and save. Leave it blank if unknown.

Goal status describes progress toward a desired result. It does not prove schedule completion or that an event occurred.

You can directly ask AI, for example, “Add a daily reading routine as a goal.” Rather than searching documents to extract goals, alfred-future-goal saves through save_goal in the specified archive and reads the future-goal list again. No deadline or source is required, and there is no need to create a source document or schedule.

Goal storage currently reuses wiki goal metadata. Recurrence wording such as “daily” remains in the title/body; it does not provide automatic recurrence, reminders, check-ins or achievement-rate calculation. Changing status/deadline preserves the body, links and evidence. New direct goals do not receive new internal-link connections; references remain plain text.

Dates and schedules

1. Select Create plan/schedule in Diary, or Create schedule on a future-dashboard schedule card. You can also start with Create a plan from this record in a record menu.
2. Choose the Title, Status and Time precision.
3. Enter the Original schedule expression and verified Local date. If time is known, also confirm local time, necessary offset, start and end.
4. Choose related records and classifications, then Save.

Use event, meeting and scheduled dates stated in the source. Do not infer event dates from file modification times. Leave an event with an unknown date as Needs confirmation.

The present view covers 31 days: the reference date in the archive time zone plus 15 days on either side. Earlier dates are past, later dates are future. Entering a date and assigning a project/topic are separate operations.

AI (MCP) can review explicitly stated schedules under the scheduling rules and register them. A passed due date or completed schedule never automatically creates an actual event. Not every normal app save or existing-document edit triggers automatic schedule analysis. See AI schedule handling.

Check sources and evidence

Open a record to read it and find source positions through linked evidence.

The document toolbar is separated from the body by a neutral background and dividers. Contents, source-line navigation, body, version links and supplemental information are separated by dividers; buttons wrap on narrow screens. Back to contents at the bottom returns from your reading position to the contents.

• Body links connect related reading.
• Source links pin the revision of the evidentiary record. The current document may differ from the version used as a source.
• Group membership classifies records under people, projects, topics and other targets. A body link alone does not create membership.

Select an actual target under Internal links in the wiki editor to insert a body link. For source evidence, choose Link kind: Source under Organization and links › Links, then use Find record by name to select a target. A source link is pinned to the chosen revision. After adding links, save the record itself too.

Confirm the result

• Reopen the saved record in the diary/wiki list.
• Check that events and plans/schedules are not confused and that dates and statuses are correct.
• For goals, verify goal status and date; for sources, verify the linked record and revision.
• Use Ctrl+F and the contents to examine the body. Keep several documents in tabs and move between them with Alt+←/→.

File features temporarily suspended

Existing attachments are retained safely without deletion and included in full backups. Adding, opening and previewing new files is temporarily suspended.

Individual file operations—including download, replacement, deletion, restoration and history lookup—are also unavailable. Existing file source, link and revision information is preserved. Editing Markdown/reference text and operating on files are different features. Do not remove source links or substitute another source because a file cannot be opened.