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A quiet place for what we keep learning about mood, gratitude, and paying attention. No streaks, no hustle — just a few honest notes, slow enough to be useful.
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101 journal prompts for when you don't know what to write
A long, organised list of journal prompts — for blank pages, end-of-day writing, gratitude, circling thoughts, work, people, and looking back. Pick one, write for five minutes, stop.
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40 gratitude journal prompts that go deeper than 'three good things'
Gratitude prompts organised by people, ordinary things, your own doing, hard things and time — plus how often to write them, and why the standard three-item list stops working after two weeks.
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12 journaling techniques, and when to use each
Named journaling techniques explained plainly — free writing, morning pages, sentence stems, mood logging, the unsent letter, the weekly review — with how long each takes and what it's actually good for.
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What to write in a journal when nothing happened
Most days are ordinary, and ordinary days are the ones people stop writing about. Twenty prompts for flat, uneventful evenings — and why the unremarkable entries turn out to be the useful ones.
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Do streaks help or hurt? What the research actually says
We build a journaling app with no streaks, so we went looking for evidence that streaks are bad. We didn't find it. Here is what the gamification and app-abandonment literature actually says — including the trial that argues against our own design.
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Gratitude journaling: the research, honestly
What the two 2023 meta-analyses of gratitude interventions actually found — the effect sizes, the confidence intervals, and the low-certainty rating almost nobody quotes. With a full reference list.
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How to start a mood journal when you've never kept one
A gentle, practical guide to starting a mood journal — what to write, how long it takes, and how to keep it going without it becoming one more thing you feel guilty about.
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Does gratitude journaling actually work? Here's what the research says
An honest look at the science of gratitude journaling — what studies actually found, where the effects are modest, and how to practice it without turning it into another chore.
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How AI can find patterns in your moods (without reading your diary like a therapist)
What does it actually mean for an app to 'use AI to find patterns in your mood'? A plain-English explanation of what the AI sees, what it can't, and why noticing beats diagnosing.
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Is your journaling app actually private? 5 things to check
Your journal holds your most honest thoughts. Before you trust an app with them, here are five concrete things to check — and the questions most privacy policies hope you won't ask.
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