Over the past year, I’ve attempted to keep a journal in plain text files in Dropbox using Nebulous Notes. The ritual was, if I thought of it at the end of the day and wasn’t too tired, I’d take a few minutes on the iPhone or iPad and write down what stuck out from the day. That was a great idea when it actually happened, but it was easy to miss the smaller nice moments that happen in between, that make up the flavor of the last 24 hours. I wanted to be able to generate a little more of a continuous thread of daily "good stuff". I wanted to put myself more in the mind of how I log things on vacation, where I use the gorgeous Momento to log the meals we eat, the places we see, and the mundane details that can bring a day back to life later. But Momento isn’t plain text, and I really like plain text as a future-proof format.
I tended to think of other ideas to put in the journal at random times, but the password PIN on the front screen of Nebulous was just enough friction for me to skip making an entry in it if I was in the middle of something else. I tried Drafts as a temporary holding place for those, but it became just another thing to remember to do at the end of the day (e.g. "Check Drafts for snippets to pull into the late-night journal entry"). Bluh.
This is not news to iOS nerds, but Drafts has an action called "Append to Journal.txt" that can shoot your latest entry to the end of a file in your Dropbox folder. Oh man.

I tweaked it a little to make that Journal.txt file live in my /750 words/ folder, where I follow the spirit but not the letter of the 750 Words project.

Under the Manage Actions screen, I set it to delete the Drafts entry after successfully sending the text to Journal.txt.

Now I can quickly pop stuff into Drafts without totally disrupting the experience I’m theoretically trying to document, and I know that it’ll end up in Journal.txt to expand on later, or just leave it there as is.
Because I am crazy and distrust very long files, I may regularly break these pasted entries in Journal.txt into their own daily text files, or i may leave them in place and archive them to a Journal_YYYY.txt file every year.