Why I Made This

After accumulating 20 million words of journal content over 24+ years, it is time for me to explore their lessons.

Do you diligently journal but rarely take the time to revisit your entries? Have you ever wondered what hidden insights lie within those pages you've written over the years?

Just me here, a journaling aficionado who noticed a great lack of tools for journaling analysis. As an AI/ML engineer and data scientist, I decided to do something about it. This is for anyone who, like me, enjoys looking back to move forward.

I'm not a company, just someone who's been journaling for years and enjoys programming and data. Faced with a lack of means for analyzing my journals, I created my own tool. Lifelogging.AI is about providing insights to fellow journal enthusiasts. No ads, no tracking cookies, and no subscriptions. The app doesn't sell or trade your data. I've set a nominal fee for most features to deter bots and prevent misuse by harmful users; it's simply about covering costs to keep it running and fund additional development.

Features

Lifelogging.AI is a web application that analyzes your journaling, helping you find patterns, track trends over time, and gain insights into your thoughts and emotions. Having dedicated many years to mastering the art of finding patterns in data, I designed it to make journal analysis simple, with features like easy data import and privacy-first data handling.

Simple Data Import

Bring your journal entries, notes, or any text data. Super easy. Barely an inconvenience.

Data Security

Our web app ensures your data is protected with two layers of security. First, the database uses LUKS to encrypt all data stored on disk. This means that all your data remains encoded and unreadable without the correct decryption key, just like locking a safe. Secondly, our application encrypts your personal content using AES-256 before it even reaches the database. This adds another layer of security, ensuring that even if someone could access the database directly, they would still only see scrambled data. Together, these measures provide robust protection for your data, keeping it secure and private. Data in transit is encrypted using SSL to ensure that data moving between the application and the database is encrypted to prevent eavesdropping.

Visual Design

The interface might make you think, "The 1990's called and said they wanted their web design back!" 😸 Let's just say I'm focusing on the engine before the paint job. I’m pouring my efforts into making the analysis tools as powerful and user-friendly as possible, which means the aesthetic part is still a bit... retro. But hey, everything vintage is cool again, right? If enough people find this app useful I’ll invest more into the visual design.

My Journey with Lifelogging.AI

I’ve been using Lifelogging.AI to process audio journals I recorded in noisy environments. These journals are full of typos and garbled text, but the app’s proofreading capability handles them beautifully. I experienced a bonafide wow moment when it took a stream-of-consciousness mess of unpunctuated sentence fragments and made them readable.

I have over ten thousand journal entries consisting of twenty million words. With so much content, I use the app to summarize my entries. I can choose between natural, conversational summaries or easy-to-scan bullet lists. Sometimes even the summaries are too much. That’s when the summary-of-summaries feature comes in handy. It distills the information while still keeping the important details and my unique voice intact.

The search feature is amazing. It has reminded me of things I’d long forgotten, bringing back interesting memories. The visualizations give me a quick sense of how themes, topics, or people in my journals have evolved over time.

This tool has truly helped me rediscover and understand my past journaling in a new way.

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