Memos

Writing

The editor speaks GitHub-flavored Markdown: headings, bold, italic, strikethrough, lists, task lists, fenced code blocks with syntax highlighting, tables, images, and links. The toolbar splices Markdown at your cursor; ⌘+Enter saves. Drafts persist in your browser, so a closed tab never eats a thought.

Two quicker paths while you write: type / at the start of a line for commands — to-do list, bullet list, heading, code block, quote, and /dory to make it a Dory memo — and paste a URL over selected words to turn them into a link.

Interactive checkboxes work in the rendered memo too — tick - [ ] items right in the timeline and the source updates itself. The Tasks submenu on a memo can check or uncheck everything at once.

Templates

The Template button in the compose box starts a memo from a skeleton: four built-ins (daily journal, standup, meeting note, recipe — dates fill themselves in), plus up to 20 of your own. Write something once, choose Save current memo as template…, and it becomes a one-tap starting point. Templates are per member.

Visibility

Each memo carries one of three levels, chosen in the editor:

Set your default in Settings → Preferences.

Pinning

Pin to top keeps a memo above the timeline. Pinned memos can't be Dory memos or bottles — pinned means forever, Dory means a while.

Time tricks

Three moves live in the editor and the ⋯ menu, covered in depth on the Dory & the time layer page:

• Dory memo — forgets itself after 1 hour, 24 hours, 3 days, or 7 days.
• Nudge me about this — an inbox (and optional email) reminder at a time you pick, one-shot or repeating.
• Message in a bottle — hidden from every feed until a future day, then it washes ashore in your inbox.

Archiving vs. deleting

Two different intentions, two different places:

• Archive — keep it, out of the way. The memo moves to the treasure chest: out of your timeline, safe forever, restorable any time. Archiving a Dory memo rescues it from being forgotten.
• Delete — get rid of it, with a week to change your mind.

The trash

Deleting a memo moves it to Trash, where it waits 7 days before it's really gone. Comments and attachments travel with it, and they all come back together when you hit Restore — an archived memo restores to the archive, not to your timeline.

While a memo is in the trash it's gone from everywhere else: your timeline, search, tags, the calendar, and any share links you'd made. Its permalink says the memo swam away, even to you.

Each entry shows how long it has left. Delete forever skips the rest of that week for one memo, and Empty the trash clears the lot right now — both are permanent, and both ask first.

Dory memos don't pass through the trash. A memo you asked Dory to forget fades on Dory's schedule — that's the whole point of asking.

Edit history

Every save keeps the words it replaced. History in the ⋯ menu lists a memo's past versions — the last 20 edits, for 90 days — with a line-by-line diff against what the memo says now, and a one-click Restore this version. Restoring keeps today's words in the history too, so you can always swim back.

History is yours alone: only the memo's author can open it, even on a public memo. And when a memo is gone — trashed, or forgotten by Dory — its history goes with it.

Acting on many memos at once

Select, above your feed on Home and in the archive, turns on multi-select: click memos to pick them, then use the bar at the bottom — Archive (or Unarchive in the archive), Add tag…, or Move to trash, up to 100 at a time. Bulk-tagging adds the tag at the end of each memo and skips ones that already carry it; every memo it rewrites keeps its old words in ⋯ → History. Bulk delete goes through the same 7-day trash as deleting one memo — comments travel along.

Finding your way back

Two views exist purely for re-reading what you wrote:

• Calendar lays a month out as a grid with the first line of each memo in the day it was written. Click a day to read and edit everything from it; leave the day unpicked and you get the whole month as a timeline. The mini-calendar in the sidebar links straight to the month you're looking at.
• On this day sits above your feed on Home and resurfaces what you wrote a month, six months, or a year ago today. It only appears when there's something to find, and it folds away.

Go fish in the sidebar swims up one random memo. The small flame under the mini-calendar counts the days you've written in a row.

Keyboard shortcuts

Every one of these rests while you're typing — inside the editor, a search box, or any dialog, the keys belong to what you're writing. Inside the editor, ⌘+Enter saves.