Journey
Your journal, read back to you.
Years of writing, turned into patterns you can see: how you’ve felt, what you keep coming back to, who matters most, and when things turned. All of it is worked out on your own devices.
In developmentMac and iOSImports journals
Bring your history
Years of writing, ready on day one.
Journey imports your existing journal, including Day One and Apple Journal exports, so years of writing are ready to read on day one.
From Day One or Apple Journal into Journey
- Read like the rest
- Each imported entry gets its mood, emotions, themes, people and places, the same as one you write in Journey.
- Patterns from the start
- With your whole history in, On This Day, the monthly summaries and every pattern have years to work with from the first day.
- Still only on your devices
- Imported entries are read on your own Mac, iPhone and iPad, like everything else. Nothing is sent to a server.
Every entry, read
Write as you always have.
Journey reads each entry and notes its mood, the emotions in it, its themes, the people you mention and where you were. You can correct any of it, and it learns from you.
Every entry gets its own reading
Mood, emotions and themes under the text.
Month by month
This Week and On This Day above your entries.
Patterns, grounded in research
It doesn’t just count words.
Each measure comes from a well‑known piece of research in psychology, explained in plain language right where you see it.
Patterns, not diagnoses. Journey shows what tends to go together in your own writing. It isn’t a medical or psychological assessment.
27 emotions
The share of each year led by positive and by negative emotions, and the ones you felt most (Google’s GoEmotions research).
Well‑being
The five parts of a good life: positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishment (Martin Seligman’s PERMA model).
How you treat yourself
How kindly you spoke to yourself, how connected you felt to others, and how much in charge of your life.
How you cope
What you reach for when things are hard, such as planning, support, humor, rest or avoidance (the COPE inventory of Charles Carver and colleagues).
The words you use
Absolutist words like “always” and “never”, insight words like “realize”, and more, by year (in the style of James Pennebaker’s LIWC research).
Turning points
The real rises and drops across your years, smoothed so one bad day doesn’t count as a turn.
Mood over the years
Your mood by year, from unpleasant to pleasant (Russell’s circumplex model), with your life events marked where they fall.
Rhythms
Your seasons, your best days of the week and hours of writing, the long silences between entries, and how much you wrote each year.
Themes and people
One part of your life, gathered.
Journey gathers everything you’ve written about one part of your life, such as your marriage, your work or a friendship, and the people in it. Each theme and person gets a timeline. You can narrow it by year, by person or by feeling, and jump straight to the entries.
Themes gather a life
Everything you’ve written about one part of your life.
The people in your life
And every entry that mentions them.
Look back
What you wrote, on this day.
On This Day brings back what you wrote on this date in past years. Monthly summaries tell you what each month was about, in a sentence.
On This Day
What you wrote on this date in past years.
Patterns fit in your pocket too
Mood and emotions by year.
Private by design
Your journal stays yours.
- Encrypted on your devices
- It opens with Face ID or Touch ID.
- Read on your devices
- The analysis runs on your own Mac, iPhone and iPad. Your words are never sent to a server.
- Only you can get back in
- You choose a recovery passphrase that only you hold.
- Coming: sync without the cloud
- Your iPhone and iPad sync with your Mac over your home network, encrypted, never through the internet.