Productivity

One Line a Day widget for Windows

One line a day is a low enough bar to actually clear. The widget shows you what you wrote on this day in previous years, which is the part that makes the habit worth keeping. Turn on AI enhancements and it will summarise your week or month for you; point it at a local Ollama model and none of it leaves your machine. Like every AI feature in the dashboard, it is off until you switch it on, per widget.

Free · Windows 10 and 11 · No account required

One Line a Day
Thursday, August 21
7 day streak
Saved ✓
On this day
Aug 21, 2025·First commit on the dashboard.
Aug 21, 2024·Bought the domain.
This week

You shipped something small on five of seven days, which is a steadier pace than last week. The evenings you wrote about walking by the water were also the ones you called good. Worth keeping both habits.

The real One Line a Day widget, running live. Drag it around.

What it’s for

What One Line a Day is good for

The everyday jobs this widget was built to handle.

Keep a journal habit that takes fifteen seconds a day

Get on-this-day flashbacks from previous years

Summarise a month privately using a local model

Settings

Every One Line a Day setting

9 options, set per widget - so two copies of One Line a Day on the same dashboard can behave completely differently. Highlighted values are the defaults.

Daily prompt

Any value you like · starts at What mattered today?

Show on this day

OnOff

Remind daily

OnOff

Alert sound

defaultchimebellbeepyour own clip

Remind at

"HH:MM"

Any value you like · starts at 21:00

Advanced

AI enabled

OnOff

AI integration ID

"" = first available

Any value you like

Summary period

weekmonth

Max lines

135
Setup

Getting One Line a Day on your desktop

  1. 01

    Install

    Download and run the installer. No account, no sign-in.

  2. 02

    Add the widget

    Hit Add Widget, or press Ctrl+K and search for it by name.

  3. 03

    Make it yours

    Drag it where you want, resize it, and set the options below.

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