Scripture, prayers and impressions
Put a passage, a prayer, or a word you sensed onto the page — and have Dayspring remember it for you.
Three of the slash commands put something structured on the page. They’re what lets Dayspring read your journal back to you later.
/scripture
Type /scripture (or just /scr) and search for a passage. Pick one and the
text lands on the page — the actual words, not a reference you have to look up
later.
Passages come from the ESV.
You don’t have to use the command. If you simply type “Psalm 34:18” in a sentence, Dayspring notices the reference when the entry saves and underlines it quietly. Either way it reaches the Lamp.
/pray
Logs a prayer. Write it as you’d pray it — plainly.
What this gives you is the Altar: months later, the things you’ve prayed about are gathered by subject, with whatever you wrote afterwards sitting alongside. Not “prayers answered: 4”. Just the prayer, and the rest of the story you wrote without realising it was the rest of the story.
/sense
For a word or an impression — the thing you’d otherwise not write down because it felt too slight, or because writing it felt presumptuous.
It’s kept separate from your prose deliberately, so that returning to it later you can see it for what it was: something you sensed on a particular day, not a conclusion you’d reached.
/ritual
Opens the practice library — 9 contemplative practices, from the Daily Examen to Lectio Divina to Wesley’s Questions. Pick one and its prompts appear on the page to write into.
The prompts are scaffolding, not content: only what you type is saved. If you write two lines and abandon the rest, your entry contains two lines, not a half-finished form.
See the practice library for the full list.
These blocks are just text
Everything here stays editable. Click into a scripture block and change it, delete a prayer, rewrite a sense. Nothing is locked, and it all exports as plain Markdown with the rest of your writing.