Daykept's template gallery: ready-made structures for every kind of writing

Creating a journaling template from scratch takes thought you might not have on a Tuesday morning. The Template Gallery solves that: a curated library of ready-made structures, organized by how you work and what you need. Browse, save the ones that fit, and start writing in under a minute.

My Templates vs Gallery

The Templates screen has two tabs at the top: My Templates and Gallery.

My Templates shows the templates you have saved or created yourself — the ones you reach for when writing a new entry. Keep this list short. Five well-chosen templates you actually use are worth more than twenty you scroll past.

Gallery is the browsable library. This is where you find new templates to try. When something looks useful, tap Save to add it to My Templates, or tap Use now to open a new entry with it immediately.

Searching and filtering

The search bar at the top of the Gallery lets you find templates by keyword. Useful when you know what you need but do not want to scroll through every category.

Below the search bar, three filter chips let you narrow by type: All, Free, and Premium. Free templates are available to every Daykept user. Premium templates are part of a subscription and tend to be more detailed or specialized.

Agile & Work templates

One of the built-in categories is Agile & Work — templates built around common work and team rhythms. Three examples worth knowing:

• Daily Standup. Stay aligned with your team through a focused daily check-in. Useful for logging what you worked on, what is next, and anything blocking you — even if your team does not do standups formally.
• Sprint Planning. Define goals and commit to tasks for the upcoming sprint. A good place to write down what you are taking on and why, so you can look back at the end of a sprint with full context.
• Sprint Retrospective. Reflect on the sprint and identify improvements for the next one. The classic retro format — what went well, what did not, what to change — applied to your own working log.

Work templates work well even if you are not on a software team. A freelancer can use Sprint Planning to structure a project week. Anyone who does regular retrospectives — even personal ones — will find the retro format immediately useful.

Picking the right template

When browsing the Gallery, resist the urge to save everything that looks interesting. A saved template you do not use clutters My Templates and makes it slower to reach the ones you do use.

Instead: save one template from a category, use it for a week, then decide. If the format feels right, keep it. If you keep skipping fields or finding it too rigid, try a different one — or edit it to fit how you actually think.

Use now vs Save

Use now opens a new entry immediately with the template pre-filled. Good when you see exactly what you need and want to start writing right away.

Save adds the template to My Templates without opening a new entry. Good when you are browsing and building your collection for later use.

You can do both: save a template and also use it now. It will appear in My Templates for future entries.

Already comfortable with templates and want to create your own? Read how Daykept's template system works. Or, once your entries are building up, see how the Report screen shows your writing habits over time.