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A journaling app offering guided journals for various topics, personalized suggestions, and tools for mental wellness. Provides insights to improve your day and feel better, with features to address stress, productivity, and sleep. Available on iOS.

Features

Guided Journals

Provides prompts and exercises for various topics like productivity, stress management, relationships, and more to guide users in their journaling process.

Journaling Courses

Offers courses that help users build a habit of journaling, with personal guidance to improve productivity, reduce stress, and understand emotions better.

Personalized Suggestions

Gives personalized journaling suggestions based on events in user's life or detected patterns, helping in reflecting on special or impactful moments.

Dark Mode

Features a dark mode to make journaling at night or in low-light environments easier on the eyes.

Interactive Features

Includes interactive prompts and journaling exercises, helping users focus on matters of personal importance such as managing anxiety or improving sleep quality.

Guided Journals

stoic offers guided journals that cover aspects like happiness, gratitude, productivity, self-discovery, stress and anxiety, relationships, therapy, and sleep. New themes and prompts are provided weekly.

Mental Health Companion

Helps users understand emotions and provides insights on being happier and more productive by guiding them through daily journaling with thought-provoking prompts and mood tracking.

Ancient and Modern Wisdom

Blends the ancient philosophy of Stoicism with modern psychological science to foster mindfulness, resilience, and well-being.

Filter Quotes

Allows you to search for specific quotes or filter them by author.

Top Stoic Quotes for Happiness

Provides quotes aimed at enhancing personal happiness.

Philosophical Insights

Offers deep insights and understanding of stoic philosophy through selected quotes.

Writing Analysis

Uses AI to analyze journal entries for patterns and insights, providing personalized prompts and reflective aids to help users understand their thoughts better.

Personalized Reflections

Offers guided journal prompts personalized according to the user's focus, using the voice of philosophers like Seneca and Marcus Aurelius.

Smart Reminders

Sends personalized notifications and prompts based on the user’s behavior, leveraging AI to keep them engaged with their journaling process.

Data Control

Allows users to manage and select what data they share with OpenAI for AI-powered features, ensuring privacy and control over sleep, mood, and writing data.

Enhanced Header Formatting

Automatically detects and formats headers (h1 to h6).

Text Styling

Easily apply bold and italic text styles.

More Styles (Upcoming Feature)

Includes strikethrough, highlights, lists, and quotes for more styling options.

Toolbar with Markdown Modifiers (Upcoming Feature)

Simplifies formatting tasks with an easy-access toolbar.

Embedding Assets (Upcoming Feature)

Integrate images, links, and other media for a richer journaling experience.

Begin with Small Steps

Start with manageable adjustments. For example, if you want to increase physical activity, begin with short walks and gradually increase intensity or duration.

Link New Habits to Existing Ones

Attach new habits to established routines. For example, if you brush your teeth daily, add stretching exercises to this routine.

Recognize the Habit Loop

Understand the cue-routine-reward loop to form new habits. Choose consistent cues like reading after dinner and rewarding yourself to reinforce behavior.

Set Clear Triggers

Use specific times, locations, or activities as triggers for habits. For instance, set a reminder to meditate at the same time each day.

Monitor Your Progress

Use journals or apps to track achievements and stay motivated. Recording completed tasks helps you recognize progress and stay committed.

Reward Yourself

Incorporate rewards for completed habits to boost satisfaction and encouragement. For instance, relax with a favorite show after a week of exercise.

Plan for Challenges

Anticipate obstacles and develop strategies to overcome them, such as planning short workouts when busy.

Seek Support and Accountability

Share goals with others or join a community for encouragement and accountability. For example, join a running club or online challenge.

Be Patient and Consistent

Understand that forming habits takes time and requires patience. Stay committed and don't be discouraged by setbacks.

Dichotomy of Control

Recognize what is within your control, such as your actions, thoughts, and mindset, versus what is not, like external events or others' actions. Focus energy on your own decisions.

Inner Resilience

View challenges as opportunities for strength. Use setbacks to build resilience.

Practice Mindfulness and Presence

Reflect on your thoughts and actions to live more intentionally and fulfillingly.

Stoicism in the Workplace

Apply Stoic principles to manage stress and enhance productivity by demonstrating resilience and adaptability.

Stoicism in Relationships

Encourage empathy and understanding. Focus on your own actions and not others' responses.

Digital Age Stoicism

Cultivate real-world connections and set boundaries with technology use.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Positive Psychology

Use Stoicism with CBT and positive psychology to develop resilience and positivity.

Three Pillars of Modern Stoicism

Focus on dichotomy of control, developing good character, and stoic mindfulness.

Reflective Journaling

Engage in journaling to align actions with values and reflect deeply.

Stoic Mindfulness Exercises

Practice daily mindfulness through exercises such as breathing and meditation.

Habit Formation

Develop daily habits to reinforce Stoic principles.

Enhanced Personalized Journaling

Utilizes Apple's API to provide prompts based on daily activities like photos, places, or workouts, enhancing personal reflection and privacy.

Seamless and Private Integration

Allows review and choice of content for journaling, ensuring data remains on your device or iCloud, protecting privacy.

Diverse Journaling Assets

Offers a variety of assets like photos, locations, and workouts for a rich journaling experience.

Privacy and Security

Commits to not collecting personal data; all data stays on the user's device or personal iCloud.

Understanding Your Thoughts

AI analyzes your journal entries to identify patterns and trends, helping you understand your thoughts better. It uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) and identifies emotions and behaviors.

Personalized Reflections

AI provides personalized reflections in the voice of historical figures like Seneca. This helps deepen nightly reflections based on daily activities.

Deepening Your Thinking

AI offers prompts based on your thoughts and feelings, assisting in self-exploration and reflection.

A Compassionate Companion

The AI acts as a supportive tool on your mental health journey, offering prompts and insights to help explore your mental and emotional well-being.

Guided Journal

Engage with a guided journal specifically designed for World Mental Health Day 2023. It offers exercises and reflections aimed at facilitating inward contemplation and emotional regulation.

Journaling Tools

For Stoic community members, a plethora of tools is available to delve into mental and emotional health. This includes questions aimed at exploring self-discovery and introspection.