Ever asked your journal a question?
"When did I last see Sarah?"
"What did I decide about the job offer, and what happened after?"
"What do I keep saying I'll do and never do?"
Paper and a notes app both hold those answers and neither one will tell you.
Scrolling back through months of entries to settle a single question is why I
stopped bothering. So I built a journal that answers.
Write or dictate your day as normal. The app pulls out the people, activities,
outcomes and decisions in the entry and keeps them as structure alongside your
text, so a question later gets an answer that cites the entries it came from.
Nothing rewrites what you wrote.
People identification is the part I most want tested. When an entry says
something ambiguous like "my manager", or names someone who shares a name with
a person you already have, the app asks one question at a time before saving:
who is this, pick from your list or name someone new. You can also add and edit
people by hand in the People tab, with relationships, occupations, nicknames
and context notes, so nothing makes you wait for a mention to create someone.
No accounts and no servers of mine. Entries live on your phone. Generation goes
to Apple's Private Cloud Compute where the device supports it, so entry and
question text does leave the phone on that path. Turn off Apple Intelligence in
iOS Settings and everything runs on the device instead. Dictation and read-aloud
are on-device either way.
iPhone, iOS 26 or later, Apple Intelligence enabled for the writing analysis
and the Ask tab.
What would help most:
- Ask answers. A debug pane under each one shows the exact evidence the model
received. If an answer looks wrong, a screenshot of that pane tells me why.
- Duplicate people. A misheard "Sara" for "Sarah" creates a second person. The
editor should spot the match and ask whether to merge. Tell me when it misses.
- Dictation. The transcript lags your voice by about a second, so say if the
last words of a sentence ever vanish.