Daily prompts, diary & memoir

One question a day.

In time, the chapters of your life.

Free on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro

IA summer awayLanded this morning, and realised how much I had missed home.Summer

IILearning to paintPainted the view from my window. It looks nothing like it.Winter

IIIA first jobFirst day. Twelve new names, and I remembered one.September

IVA new cityFirst night in the new flat. Everything echoes, and I don’t know anyone here yet.Autumn

VTraining for a raceRan the whole loop without stopping for the first time.Spring

VIA friend came to visitShowed her my favourite streets. We talked until two.July

VIIBack home againMy old room, the same creaky stairs, the kettle on.December

The question is the title. The rest of the page is yours.

What is One Question?

A journal that asks you one question a day.

Answer it in a sentence or a page. Once you save it, it’s sealed: no editing, no rewriting, no polishing. One honest sentence is enough.

Today in One Question: the day's question, What question is on your mind right now?, with an answer written under it and a row of moods to mark.

What happens to what I write?

It becomes the chapters of your life.

One Question finds the stretches your life fell into: a town you lived in, a summer away, a person who filled your days. Each becomes a chapter, named and dated, opening with your own first line.

The Chapters tab: stretches of a life found in a journal, each named and dated, like Stockholm, a city that became home, and Time with Sara.

What’s inside a chapter?

Your days, read back to you.

With One Question Pro, a chapter opens: how it felt, the moments you might have forgotten, what changed, then and now. With Apple Intelligence, it tells you what the whole stretch meant, written privately on your iPhone.

Inside a chapter: what the stretch meant, told back in a few paragraphs, then lines from the entries in your own words.

What was I writing a year ago?

Meet who you were.

On This Day sets today beside a week, a month and a year ago. Memories finds any entry by words, places or people, and the Journal Map shows every place you’ve written from.

On This Day: the entry written on the same day a year before.

What about the journal I already keep?

Bring your years with you.

Import from Day One, Apple’s Journal app, Journey or Daylio, or from your own files. Dates, places and moods come across, so your chapters are there from the first day. How to import

After an import: 1,163 entries from 2019 to 2025 brought in from another journal, and the 14 chapters found in them.

Who can read it?

Only you.

Your entries live on your device and sync only through your own iCloud account. Chapters, reflections and covers are made on your device, and your writing is never sent anywhere to be read. Privacy policy

Memories: every entry searchable by words, places or people, with On This Day, Rediscover and the map.

Wherever you write.

iPhoneWith widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen.
iPhone DuoA two-page spread, folded like a book.
iPadAt any window size.
Apple WatchAnswer by dictation, from your wrist.
Apple Vision ProYour journal, there too.
Apple HealthMindful Minutes and State of Mind, if you want them.

In English, Chinese (Simplified), Hindi, Spanish, Arabic and French.

Free to write in.

The day’s question, moods, places, the map, Memories, Insights and your list of chapters cost nothing. One Question Pro, $1.99 a month or $14.99 a year in the US, opens what’s inside each chapter.

Prices vary by country. More in the FAQ

Open the app. Answer. Close. Come back tomorrow.

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