personal journal
write the way you actually think.
your personal journal is the heart of jot. it's a private, pressure-free space to write whatever's on your mind — whether that's a full breakdown of your day, a fleeting thought at 2am, or a voice note captured on the go. write it, speak it, or snap it. jot accepts all of the above.
most journaling apps are just fancy text editors. jot's personal journal is the foundation of something smarter — a living record of your life that works harder the more you use it.
- voice-to-text with mood detection
- photos, audio clips, location tags
- chat-with-ai prompts when you're stuck
how it works
- 1click new entry
- 2tap, speak or write
- 3jot saves it forever — privately
shared journal
some stories deserve multiple narrators.
create journals with a partner, family, your travel crew, or a friend who's going through the same thing.
each contributor has their own voice, their own entries, and their own perspective — but they all live together in one shared space. you can comment, react, and build on each other's entries, making it feel less like a diary and more like a story you're writing together in real time.
journaling has always been a solitary activity. shared journals change that, making jot the only app where your thoughts can be truly collective, without losing the intimacy that makes journaling special.
- invite anyone — up to 10 per journal
- shared timeline, separate voices
- fine-grained privacy per entry
how it works
- 1create a shared journal
- 2invite by email or link
- 3write together, see updates in real time
deep insights
patterns you'd never spot alone.
jot's deep insights feature does the analytical heavy lifting so you don't have to. by reading across your entries over time, jot identifies patterns, connections, and themes in your life that you might never have noticed yourself — and surfaces them in a way that's genuinely useful, not just decorative.
most people journal to process their thoughts. deep insights takes that a step further — turning your entries into actual self-knowledge. it's the difference between writing in a diary and genuinely learning from one.
- mood × habits × people correlations
- weekly & monthly reflections
- gentle nudges, never preachy
how it works
- 1write for a week
- 2ai finds your patterns
- 3act on what actually matters
calendar
your diary now has a memory.
mention a dinner on thursday or a flight next month and jot drops it into your calendar — no copy-paste, no second app.
a calendar without context is just a list of obligations. jot's calendar connects your schedule to your life — making it the only calendar that remembers how things actually went, not just when they were planned.
- auto-extracted events & reminders
- smart conflict detection
- syncs with apple & google calendar
how it works
- 1mention a date in any entry
- 2jot detects & confirms it
- 3your calendar stays effortlessly current
address book
the people who make your story.
jot's address book is your personal contacts hub — built specifically for the way a diary works. store the people who matter, add notes about them, tag them in journal entries, and never forget a birthday again. it's the kind of contact management that actually reflects real life, where people aren't just phone numbers — they're characters in your story.
your phone's contact list knows someone's number. jot's address book knows who they actually are to you — and keeps that context close at hand, where it belongs.
- auto-detected contacts from entries
- birthdays, anniversaries, last seen
- every memory together, in one view
how it works
- 1mention someone in an entry
- 2jot auto-detects & builds their card
- 3see birthdays, notes & every shared memory
tasks
intentions become things you actually do.
writing "i should call mum" feels like progress. doing it feels like more. jot turns the should-dos in your entries into a gentle, carry-forward list.
no aggressive notifications. just a calm nudge, on your terms.
- auto-extracted to-dos from entries
- due dates, recurring, snooze
- weekly completion summary
how it works
- 1write what you intend
- 2jot turns it into a task
- 3check it off — or carry it forward
ai notes
never miss a word again.
we've all been there — frantically scribbling during a call, missing half of what was said, and ending up with a page of bullet points that make no sense 48 hours later. ai notes fixes that. hit record at the start of any meeting, and jot does the rest — transcribing the conversation, pulling out the key decisions, drafting a clean set of notes, and assigning action items to the right people.
note-taking is one of those tasks everyone does badly and nobody wants to do at all. ai notes removes it from your plate entirely — so you can actually be present in your meetings instead of just trying to survive them.
- automatic transcription from any meeting
- key decisions & clean notes drafted for you
- action items assigned to the right people
how it works
- 1hit record at the start of your meeting
- 2jot transcribes & identifies key decisions
- 3get clean notes & assigned action items
ai that actually knows you.
not a chatbot bolted on. an intelligence trained to listen — quietly making your diary smarter the more you write.
writing prompts
stuck on a blank page? jot asks the right question and gets you going in seconds.
mood insights
ai reads tone and energy across your entries, then maps how you've actually been.
story suggestions
halfway through an entry, jot suggests where it might be going — you stay in control.
smart categorisation
auto-tags people, places, projects and moods, so search finds what you actually meant.
privacy & encryption
your diary. only yours.
we built jot so we couldn't read it — even if we wanted to. that's not a marketing line, it's the architecture.
end-to-end encrypted
your entries are encrypted on-device before they ever touch our servers. we hold the storage, you hold the key.
never sold, never trained on
your words don't fuel ad networks and aren't used to train any model. it's your diary, full stop.
gdpr & ccpa, by default
data minimisation, right to delete, full audit trail — built in from day one, not bolted on for compliance.
yours to export, always
one-tap export to pdf, markdown, or json. leave whenever you want — and take everything with you.
how jot compares
other apps do parts of it.
other apps do pieces of this — jot is the only ai-native diary that combines voice-first capture, pattern-spotting insights, shared entries, and full data ownership.
| Feature | Jot | Day One | Notion | Apple Notes | Journey |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built-in AI insights | partial | partial | — | partial | |
| Shared / co-authored entries | — | ||||
| Voice + chat input | partial | partial | partial | partial | |
| Mood tracking & trends | — | — | — | ||
| Auto-extracted calendar events | — | — | — | — | |
| Auto-extracted tasks | — | partial | — | — | |
| People / address book | — | — | — | — | |
| End-to-end encryption | — | ||||
| Cross-device sync | |||||
| Export to PDF / markdown / JSON | partial | partial | partial | partial | |
| AI conversational companion | — | partial | — | partial | |
| Auto-structured entries & smart tags | partial | partial | — | partial | |
| Guided journaling programs | partial | partial | — |