diff --git a/docs/encryption.md b/docs/encryption.md
index 19bb178b..63859d91 100644
--- a/docs/encryption.md
+++ b/docs/encryption.md
@@ -56,6 +56,12 @@ setopt HIST_IGNORE_SPACE
 alias jrnl=" jrnl"
 ```
 
+The fish shell does not support automatically preventing logging like
+this. To prevent `jrnl` commands being logged by fish, you must make
+sure to type a space before every `jrnl` command you enter. To delete
+existing `jrnl` commands from fish’s history, run
+`history delete --prefix 'jrnl '`.
+
 ## Manual decryption
 
 Should you ever want to decrypt your journal manually, you can do so
diff --git a/docs/recipes.md b/docs/recipes.md
index 45ef18b4..570b3a8c 100644
--- a/docs/recipes.md
+++ b/docs/recipes.md
@@ -97,7 +97,10 @@ log_question 'What did I make progress with?'
 ### Display random entry
 
 You can use this to select one title at random and then display the whole
-entry.
+entry. The invocation of `cut` needs to match the format of the timestamp.
+For timestamps that have a space between data and time components, select
+fields 1 and 2 as shown. For timestamps that have no whitespace, select
+only field 1.
 
 ``` sh
 jrnl -on "$(jrnl --short | shuf -n 1 | cut -d' ' -f1,2)"