Slideshow Prompts for a One-Line-a-Day Journal

One-line journals live or die on the prompt. A good prompt can be answered in a queue. A bad one asks for an essay about childhood.

Prompts you can post

• "One thing you wore today."
• "Who did you talk to for real?"
• "What did you eat that you would eat again?"
• "A thing you put off, in four words."
• "Where were you at 4pm?"
• "Something you noticed out a window."
• "A sentence you wish you had said."
• "The smallest thing that was fine."

How to make the slideshow

Slide one is the prompt, large. Slide two is a sample answer in one line, labeled as an example. Slide three says the app stores them by date so a year from now it is a list, not a mood board. That is the whole product.

Series

"A line for weeknights" posted three times a week beats a dump of 100 prompts. People return for the next question. Keep a streak out of it if you want the non-writers to stay. The archive is the reward, not a flame.