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That's an epic journal. I like the simplicity of it and minimalistic to it as well. Keep up the great work.


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Just wanted to post a quick comment - I really appreciate your simple and elegant journalling solution. I think I want to implement something similar. Thanks!

Thanks, I like to use it as a way to keep a journal, put all sorts of ideas in there and look at them from different angles.

This is really good. It reminds me of a bullet journal. Well done!

I love this! I've been looking for a lighweight diary tool, and this is giving me serious inspiration.

Why haven't I heard of this journal? Looks great.

This seems like ideal form of journaling to the minute details. Thanks for sharing!

I would honestly love to see more journals that look like this.

Nice journal! I should start one for my next major project.

This looks like a bullet journal (with the transfers to next day & from calendar), but without the journal. I, too, find the approach very natural.

Hey - just to let you know that I took a look and liked the way you built it! Not really a product for me as I don't keep any diary but maybe others will find it useful! Well done & good luck!

It's a neat interface and very compelling.

I just signed up since I've been wanting to keep a journal, just never gotten around to it.


Looks great! I really like the ability to pull socially shared content into the journal.

Another journaling app I'm a fan of is Day One.


I've been keeping a google doc pinned tab to keep track of everything (todo, what to read, etc.) so happy to give journal a shot. Email in my profile thanks

bullet journal :)

Thanks for posting it!

I've been wanting to actually write an identical tool but for a daily diary.


I've never successfully established a journaling habit. I'm giving it another try with your app. Maybe if I don't have the motivation to write I'll at least take a photo to keep the habit going. I really like the discreet mood. Having the Gap Fund is impressive. Well done. Good luck!

Hello HN!

I've been working on Simple Journal for some time now. The concept came into being after I noticed more and more people picking up journaling. I became interested in the topic and started to research ways to make it easier to turn journaling into a habit. I'm an avid Duolingo user and I've always been very impressed with how they handle multi day streaks, and in particular, how well they worked for me in making a habit out of using Duolingo. So I added streaks to journaling and that concept turned into Simple Journal. After that I wanted a more granular control over the things I was tracking in my journaling, so I added a way to track and chart various types of activities.

I hope you like it, do let me know what you think.


Thanks! Hope it sticks for you. To replace my paper bullet journal, I wanted to stay far away from social, subscriptions, notifications, etc etc.

Nice post! I've always kept a journal since using laboratory notebooks (and learning how to organise them) at uni. Over the decades I've settled on taking a notebook and running a bullet journal from the front page, in, and an "autofocus" to-do list from the back page, in. This year I'm hosting it inside a day-to-a-page Moleskine diary because I never really spill over one page for my daily log and I was going through three journals a year which incurs three-times setup overhead.
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