middle place - An AI journal that writes back and stores memories about you
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A private journal with an AI that remembers. Write about your day – it recalls the people, the patterns, and where you left off. Local-first, encrypted, nothing sold.
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I was inspired to make this because I found I was inputting my journals a lot into claude and that there had to be a better way to journal with AI – a way to store my memories, hangouts, friends in my life, and what I'm going through at the moment. That's why I made middle place!
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middle place is a journal that gives you the space to write and replies to your journal. You type an entry or just talk, and it records the people you've mentioned, what's going on in your life, and your progress in various life areas. This even works with older journals you import, meaning it can extract the key life events from your existing years of journal entries and make them indexable and highly searchable. middle place also summarizes each week with a journal entry, forming a map of the areas where you have progressed and where you could use more support. This lets you see the chapters of your life displayed as a beautiful and highly personalized story you can tap through.
middle place is also about deepening your relationships with the people in your life. If you add your friends, you can be notified when new life events get recorded from their day. This is entirely opt-in and only done over end-to-end encryption. Moreover, the app only notifies your friends about non-sensitive topics. middle place's Common Ground feature lets you privately compare what you have in common with your friends, based on your journals. This is also entirely opt-in, and both people must use the feature for it to work.
The app makes use of several technical advances, such as keeping an on-device index of your entries. This supports middle place's Ask hub, which lets you ask any question about your life and get a rich, contextual response, sourced from your journal entries. It also makes use of advanced dictation models to support voice journaling. The app is migration-friendly too, so you can import an Apple Journal or Day One export (with photos attached), or Markdown files, and export everything as a PDF, web page or JSON. The app also supports automatic iCloud backups to keep your data extra secure.
Privacy: the journal is stored on your devices and sync between them is end-to-end encrypted. There are no ads and nothing is sold. Replies come from Anthropic's Claude through a relay that doesn't store your writing, or from your own Anthropic key, or from Apple's on-device model. You sign in with Apple once; there's no username or profile.
It's free to download with a daily AI allowance. It's a journal, not a therapist or crisis service, and it's Apple-only.
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middle place is a journal that gives you the space to write and replies to your journal. You type an entry or just talk, and it records the people you've mentioned, what's going on in your life, and your progress in various life areas. This even works with older journals you import, meaning it can extract the key life events from your existing years of journal entries and make them indexable and highly searchable. middle place also summarizes each week with a journal entry, forming a map of the areas where you have progressed and where you could use more support. This lets you see the chapters of your life displayed as a beautiful and highly personalized story you can tap through.
middle place is also about deepening your relationships with the people in your life. If you add your friends, you can be notified when new life events get recorded from their day. This is entirely opt-in and only done over end-to-end encryption. Moreover, the app only notifies your friends about non-sensitive topics. middle place's Common Ground feature lets you privately compare what you have in common with your friends, based on your journals. This is also entirely opt-in, and both people must use the feature for it to work.
The app makes use of several technical advances, such as keeping an on-device index of your entries. This supports middle place's Ask hub, which lets you ask any question about your life and get a rich, contextual response, sourced from your journal entries. It also makes use of advanced dictation models to support voice journaling. The app is migration-friendly too, so you can import an Apple Journal or Day One export (with photos attached), or Markdown files, and export everything as a PDF, web page or JSON. The app also supports automatic iCloud backups to keep your data extra secure.
Privacy: the journal is stored on your devices and sync between them is end-to-end encrypted. There are no ads and nothing is sold. Replies come from Anthropic's Claude through a relay that doesn't store your writing, or from your own Anthropic key, or from Apple's on-device model. You sign in with Apple once; there's no username or profile.
It's free to download with a daily AI allowance. It's a journal, not a therapist or crisis service, and it's Apple-only.