The morning email

The email is type on paper, with no ads and nothing loaded from elsewhere. Parts with nothing to say that morning are left out, so a quiet day makes a short email.

The number

The subject and the top of the email are that day’s version number: “You’re 5.2.113 today”. Under the date is the day’s forecast for your city. On your birthday the email says so. With badges on, a short line beside the number points out a few special days, such as a round number like 5.4.300.

Under the number, 24 dots fill in as the year goes, with the next release and how many days until it ships.

The ask

“Reply any time today.” The email asks what happened, what you made, who you saw, and reminds you that photos and voice memos work too. Whatever you reply becomes that day’s release notes. Replying covers how.

Your streak and counts

One quiet line counts the days in a row you’ve written, up to yesterday, and what a reply today would make it. Miss a day and the count starts over without a word; the line shows your longest instead. Under it, your notes, days and photos so far.

If you have badges on (they are, unless you turn them off in Settings), a line names any badge you’ve earned since the last email, with a link to all of them.

Release Notes about Release Notes

Now and then Jamie adds a short note about what’s new in Release Notes. It has its own heading, so you can tell it from your own notes.

Upcoming

When a birthday, anniversary, trip or event you saved in Upcoming is near, the email reminds you, up to 3 at a time, with a link to the rest. Reminders come only here, in the morning email.

Your birthday

On your birthday the release closes, and the email sums up the year just ended: the days with notes, the notes and photos, and your longest streak, with a link to the year’s own page.

Yesterday

What you sent the day before, so you know it all arrived, with its photos and a link to the day. A long day is cut at a sentence, with a link to read the rest. A day with no notes has no Yesterday.

On this day

What you wrote on the same day in earlier releases. It goes by version, not the calendar: on 5.2.113 it shows 5.1.113 and 5.0.113, each with its weather and tags.

Photos travel inside the email itself, small copies only: up to 4 for a day and 6 in all. A day with more says how many and links to them.

The foot

At the bottom:

• Write any day, no reply needed: your own address. Mail a note to it whenever you like.
• Pause or manage: Settings, to change the time or your city, or to pause the emails.
• Unsubscribe: one click stops the emails. Nothing is deleted, and you can start them again in Settings.
• The credit for the weather, which comes from Open-Meteo. It gets your city, never your notes.

Release Notes counts no opens and no clicks. Nothing in the email tracks you.