New Feature

Your Daily Journal & Meeting Companion

Your personal councillor notebook, built into CaseMate. Write meeting notes, prepare for committee meetings with AI, create tasks with shortcuts, and link everything to your political cases.

Your Personal Daily Journal

Plan your day in a calendar view. Track meetings, appointments, and important notes all in one place. Never forget what happened or when.

  • Calendar view of all your activities
  • Log meetings, appointments, and site visits
  • Link journal entries to casework
  • Rich text notes with formatting
Daily Journal View
Journal Calendar View

Create Tasks Instantly with Shortcuts

Type natural language commands right in your journal to create tasks. No clicking through menus, no forms to fill.

Type this in your journal:
/t -d +2d Remember to chase Jen for update on The Northgate Centre -p high

And instantly get:

  • Task created with the title "Remember to chase Jen for update on The Northgate Centre"
  • Due date set to 2 days from now
  • Priority set to High
  • Linked to your journal entry automatically
Meeting Prep with AI

Meeting Preparation Made Easy

Upload planning documents, committee papers, reports - anything. Get AI-powered summaries and analysis so you walk in prepared.

  • Upload PDFs, Word docs, images to your journal
  • Get AI summaries of complex documents
  • Compare documents side-by-side with AI analysis
  • Generate intelligent questions to ask

Link Journal Entries to Political Cases

Attended a planning meeting about an ongoing political case? Click Link Case above the journal editor and select the relevant case. Your meeting notes will appear in that case's Journal tab automatically — keeping everything connected.

  • One click to link any journal entry to a case
  • Notes appear in the case's Journal tab in context
  • Political case events appear on your journal calendar
Learn about Political Cases →
Journal Calendar with Political Case Events

Real Councillor Scenarios

📋 Planning Committee Tonight

Upload the 200-page planning application PDF. Get an AI summary of key points, environmental concerns, and neighbour objections. Generate questions about traffic impact and drainage. Walk in confident.

Minutes of prep, not hours.

📅 Full Council Agenda

Seven different reports to read. Upload them all, get bullet-point summaries of each, compare the financial implications. Add notes to your journal entry for the meeting.

Be the most prepared person in the room.

✅ Daily Task Planning

Start your day in the journal. Type "/t Chase highways about pothole" while reviewing your schedule. Task created, linked to today. When you log the call later, it's all connected.

Everything linked, nothing forgotten.

🗓️ Site Visits

Log your site visit in the journal, attach photos from your phone, add notes about what you saw. Link it to the relevant casework. Complete history in one place.

Your activity, documented.

Ready to Work Smarter?

Start using the Daily Journal and never feel unprepared again

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