Your journal knows you better than ChatGPT ever could. So I built one you can talk to, that wants to learn your goals, what actually works for you, keeps you accountable, knows how to call you out when you're being too hard on yourself, convinces you to go gym, and catches you when you're struggling.
In your moments of clarity, save what helps - then when you're struggling, it knows exactly what you need to hear. Between therapy sessions, during anxiety spirals, in moments of doubt, it's there without judgement. infinitely patient, infinitely understanding, growing smarter the more you use it.
Plus it quietly tracks everything - showing you patterns in relationships, energy, emotions - making past entries feel as natural to revisit as scrolling through photos.
I built this after experimenting with AI journaling for the last 20 months. It's what i wish i had when i was trying to make journaling stick - something that makes every entry feel purposeful because it's learning how to help you better each time.
https://www.notion.so/templates/journal-ai
| Free Template | Journal AI | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 300+ Curated Prompts | ✅ | ✅ | Natural curation process over 2 years and 1000+ entries. From my own experience, books, podcasts, articles, etc, not from the first page of Google. Journal AI also includes 20 AI prompts to chat with your journal |
| Letters to your Future 💌 | ✅ | ✅ | Send a letter to your future self, and receive a letter from your past delivered to your inbox, just like a letter in the mail. See how time made you grow |
| One Click Answer Prompts | ✅ | ✅ | Answer in one click from the database or from your inbox. Prompts can also be captured using the ‘💭’ button on the top left of your journal right next to ‘➕’ |
| Prompts refresh 🔁 in your Inbox | ✅ | ✅ | Prompts come to your inbox at the top of your journal. Either permanently if you ‘Add to Inbox’ or at any interval (e.g. every 3 days, 2 weeks) if you set to refresh. Refresh is on completion. No backlogs, prompts wait patiently in your journal, not your to-do list |
| Custom Date Aesthetics | ✅ | ✅ | 31 Oct 2024 31 Oct 2024 31 Oct 2024 31 Oct 2024 |
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| Community Prompts 🫂 | ✅ | ✅ | Share prompts to the form, and add to a growing collection in our community prompts database. |
| On This Day | ✅ | ✅ | See what was happening on this day, in past years, and how you’ve changed over the years |
| Tags, Energy 🔋🪫, Emotions | ✅ | ✅ AI Autofill | Log Emotions and Energy Levels, spot patterns overtime. Organise with Tags for easy review later. Journal AI saves you the time. |
| Basics: Multiple Journals, Views, Filters | ✅ | ✅ | Organise your entries with multiple journals (default set to Journal 📓, but you could add dream journal, gratitude journal, etc). ❤️ and 📌 entries that you want to keep top of mind in your bookmarks. View and filter entries by tags, emotions, time, etc. |
| Guide & Tutorials, Support / Updates | ✅ | ✅ | Loom walkthroughs and ongoing feedback, and updates included. Super easy contact via the form inside your template or via discord. |
| Journal AI | |||
| Cards 🎴 | ✅ | Revisiting past entries can feel like a chore where you’re reading endless text. What are you really searching for? Entries automatically turn into cards. AI distills your entries down to their core essence, Revisiting old journal entries feels like scrolling through your camera roll. | |
| Journal AI ≠ Notion AI | ✅ | Journal AI is a companion to your journal with perfect recall. It’s not just Notion AI, it has long term memory, and is designed for journaling rather than a generic chatbot. @ AI Memory, or entries (one or many), or anything else you want to use for context. | |
| AI Memory | ✅ | Hand-picked memories at the top of every entry, resurfacing exactly when you need them. Memory stays within easy access at the very top of every single journal entry, and on this page. It gives Journal AI perfect recall. How does it work? It’s a synced block with questions you want yourself and your AI to remember. It turns Notion AI into a contextually aware companion in your Journal. You can naturally build your memory while journaling and answering prompts, saving your best insights to long term memory. | |
| Ask Journal AI (Prompt guide) | ✅ | Onboard your Journal AI to get setup, ‘Ask Journal AI’ prompts are for if you’re not sure what to ask. Filter for prompts tagged ‘Ask Journal AI’ in your prompts database. Use on specific entries, or start with a new chat and @AI Memory. | |
| Sentiment 🌧️🌤️🌞 | ✅ AI Autofill | Sentiments alongside emotions, so you have a less granular way to filter across entries and find insights—“What do my good days have in common?” | |
| People mentioned 👫 | ✅ AI Autofill | Organise entries by the people mentioned, and spot insights. Tedious without AI, but insightful with. | |
| 144 Emotions (instead of 10) | ✅ AI Autofill | You’re more complicated than ‘happy’ and ‘sad’; 144 emotions capture that complexity (auto-tagged, and colour coded for your convenience) | |
| AI Insights | ✅ | AI autofills and tracks sentiments, tags, people, energy levels, emotions. Not for show. View and filter entries so you can zoom out and see patterns across time through emotions, energy levels, and people in your life. |