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Write your daily work journal from what you actually did.

Trailback already remembers your day: the pages you read, the files you worked on, the screenshots you took. Hand that to ChatGPT, Claude or Codex, and get a short journal of your day, ready for Notion.

What you get

Your day in time order, block by block: what you worked on, when, for how long, and in which apps. Trailback marks what it knows for sure (a page you opened at 13:05) apart from what it's guessing (that the block was "storage cleanup"), so the journal can say what's confirmed and what's only likely.

Privacy: Trailback itself stays 100% offline. But the AI app you use (ChatGPT, Claude, Codex) sends what it reads to its own service, under its own privacy policy. You choose what it can see in Trailback's Settings → AI apps, and passwords, card numbers, keys and your Private folder are always hidden.

Recipe A: by hand, any evening

  1. In Trailback, open Settings → Storage → Export memory.
  2. Choose Today (or Yesterday), then Day report, and click Export. A short text file appears in your Downloads folder.
  3. Open ChatGPT or Claude, paste the file's contents, then paste the prompt below.
  4. Copy the journal it writes into your Notion page.

Recipe B: automatic, every evening

  1. In Trailback, open Settings → AI apps and click Connect next to Claude Desktop or Codex. Restart that app.
  2. In the same AI app, connect Notion too (Notion offers its own connector for Claude and Codex).
  3. The first time the AI app uses Trailback, it asks for permission. Choose Always allow, so a task can run with nobody at the computer.
  4. Make sure Open at login is on in Trailback (Settings → General). AI apps can only reach Trailback while it's running.
  5. In your AI app, schedule a task for every evening (where it offers scheduled tasks), with the prompt below.

Prefer a file instead? A scheduled task on your computer (launchd on a Mac, Task Scheduler on Windows) can save the Day report every evening. Turn on Settings → Storage → Allow scheduled exports; Trailback shows the exact command to copy, for example:

trailback-native-host --export --period today --format day-report

The prompt

Use Trailback's get_day for today in my time zone. Write my work journal in time order. For each block, say what I worked on. Use three sections: Confirmed (straight from Trailback's facts), Likely (Trailback's guesses, or links to my Notion projects by name and time), and Couldn't tell. Don't invent anything. Keep it under 300 words. Then add it to my Notion daily journal page.

Using Recipe A? Replace the first sentence with "Here is my Day report from Trailback."

Good to know

  • Times are in your own time zone, and a day runs from your midnight to your midnight. Trailback asks for one day at a time, or up to 31 days.
  • Trailback isn't open? The AI app gets a clear message ("Trailback isn't open"), never an empty day.
  • You can see every request an AI app made in Settings → AI apps → Activity, and block an app there.

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