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Write it down. Find it again.

Better Journal is a private, rich-text journal that saves as you type, files every entry on the day you wrote it, and can answer “what did I actually write this year?” in one search.

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Free · No credit card · Your entries stay yours

What you get

Everything a journal needs, and nothing else

An editor, not a text box

Headings, quotes, lists and emphasis, stored as a real document. Every keystroke autosaves — there is no Save button to forget.

Your year, by day

Month, week and day views of what you wrote when. Days are bucketed in your timezone, so a 2am entry lands on the night you wrote it.

Search that reads the words

Full-text search across every entry from ⌘K — stemmed, ranked, with the matching line shown so you know which one to open.

Tags, not folders

Label an entry with as many tags as it deserves, then filter the calendar down to one thread of your life.

Streaks and word counts

A contribution heatmap of the year, your current and longest streak, and how much you have written over the last 90 days.

Private, and portable

Entries are yours alone. Deleting moves to a trash you can undo, and any journal can be exported to plain Markdown.

Today is a fine first entry.

It takes about a minute to set up, and the first thing you see is a blank page waiting for you.

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