Daily View

Read a day, summarize it, and inspect its recordings.

Daily View and Summaries

Daily View is the per-day reading and follow-up surface for saved captures.

Summaries stay lightweight and sit alongside the day instead of replacing it.

Transcript rows and recording details stay visible even when playback is unavailable.

Calendar dates with no data are visually inactive and do not behave like active journal days.

Open a day from Timeline list mode or Calendar mode.
Review the individual transcripts for that day.
Tap summarize if you want a per-day AI summary.
Open the recordings drill-in when you want to inspect source/status details.
Open Daily View from Ask AI source chips when you want to verify where an answer came from.

A transcript-first day page with one row per capture, including captures that are still pending, failed, or otherwise missing transcript text.
A subtle summarize affordance instead of a large primary summary button.
A processing disclosure when the day is still finishing some captures.
Playback controls only when local audio exists and retention allows playback.

Individual transcript rows for the selected day, including captures that are still processing or need another pass.
A day view built from your saved capture history, not only from exported files or whatever happened to finish syncing first.
A row count that matches the actual captures Sundown knows belong to that day.
Capture source, timestamp, and processing status for each transcript row.
A tap-through recording detail sheet for each transcript row so you can read the full transcript, copy it, edit it when available, and play audio that is still stored locally.
A subtle summarize refresh affordance for that specific day.
Processing disclosure text when some same-day captures are still in flight.

Day summaries can be generated manually from Daily View.
In Sundown Cloud, the free tier includes one successful daily summary per day after sundown using Sundown's default prompt.
If a cloud summary fails, you can retry it.
If a cloud summary already succeeded for that day, another refresh requires a paid plan.
Custom prompts remain a paid capability and only apply when the account has summary-prompt access.
Settings > Daily View also includes an opt-in automatic daily-summary schedule with a configurable local time and a ready-notification toggle.
Automatic summary generation on iPhone is still best-effort and runs when the app gets enough background time after the configured summary hour.
Before an automatic run, Sundown requests watch recovery, processes pending local captures, and runs a full cloud sync so late watch transfers and remote day updates have a chance to land first.
The summarization path respects the AI option selected in Settings and renders a failure message when the chosen model reports unavailable.
When a transcript is edited, Sundown updates that capture first and then refreshes the day content so summaries and sync stay aligned with the edited text.

Daily View also provides a recordings history drill-in for that day. It shows:

capture source,
processing status,
failure context when present,
playback controls only when local audio retention is enabled and the file is still available.

If playback is unavailable, the UI explains why instead of showing a broken control.