Write your days. See your patterns.
A journal that reads gently, asks one good question, and draws every entry as its own stratum.
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September 2026scroll to lay down the month
A month of days
Every day settles into a layer. Patterns show up in the rock.
How it works
Three small things, every day.
- Slept badly, but the walk to work with Sam reset me, then the 3pm meeting drained everything.
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Write a few lines
Type or dictate a sentence or three about your day. No prompts to fill in, no streaks to protect. A line is enough.
It sounds like the walk with Sam gave the day a real lift, even after a short night. The 3pm meeting seems to have taken a lot, so it makes sense if you feel spent tonight.
What is it about a walk with Sam that helps you reset?
02
It reflects, then asks one good question
Daystrata reads gently and says back what it noticed in a sentence or two, tags mood, energy and themes, and asks one question worth sitting with. Then it draws the entry as a stratum.
Sundays carried work worry three weeks running.
from Sep 6, Sep 13, Sep 20
03
Your patterns appear over weeks
Layers stack into a month. Once there is enough to go on, it surfaces patterns in plain language, and every pattern points to the entries it came from.
What it notices
Patterns in plain language, with receipts.
Sep 1hover a lineSep 30
Every pattern says what it noticed, never what you are, and points to the entries it came from. These come from the sample month above.
Built AI-native
This only works because language models can read.
A journal of free-form sentences used to be a dead end for software. Nothing could tell that “the 3pm meeting drained everything” is about work and strain, or that the walk with Sam is the part that helped.
Daystrata reads each entry with a language model, kindly and briefly: it reflects back what it noticed, tags mood, energy, tension and themes, and asks one question. Across weeks it compares your own entries and writes patterns in plain language, each one citing the days it came from.
The model layer is deliberately thin and model-agnostic. Requests route across providers, every reply is checked against a strict schema before you see it, and a crisis screen runs before any model reads a word.
How the art is made
No illustrations, no stock images. Each stratum is computed: seeded noise displaces the bands, mood and energy choose the minerals, energy sets how close the lines run, tension roughens the edges. Try it.
Mostly ochre. Same seed, so only your two numbers change the picture. Tension here follows the sliders; in the journal it comes from the words.
A note on care
Daystrata is a place to reflect. It is not therapy, and it does not diagnose anything.
- Reflections are kind and observational. Patterns say what was noticed, and cite your own entries.
- Your entries are private by default, encrypted at rest, never used to train models, and never shared. Export everything or delete it for real, any time.
- If an entry shows signs of crisis, Daystrata does not analyze it. It answers warmly and shows real resources: in the US, call or text 988. Elsewhere, call your local emergency number.
From journalers
Two people, two strata.
“I have started and abandoned six journals. This one I keep, because I write two lines and it hands me something back. My October is mostly moss and ochre, which I did not expect.”
“It noticed that my worst weeks start with skipped lunches. Nobody told me that, my own entries did. I printed the September poster and it is on the fridge.”
Pricing
Free to write. Paid to see further.
Free
$0no card needed
Start freeDaily entries with reflections and artworks, 30 days of history.
Journal
$6 a monthUSD, cancel any time
Choose JournalUnlimited history, monthly patterns, strata exports, voice entries.
Archive
$12 a monthUSD, cancel any time
Choose ArchiveYearly strata poster, deeper pattern reports, priority.
Prices in US dollars, worldwide. Taxes may apply where required. Exports of everything you wrote are free on every plan.
Questions
Asked calmly, answered plainly.
Is Daystrata therapy?
No. Daystrata is a reflection tool. It notices and reflects; it never diagnoses, labels, or treats. If you are struggling, a licensed therapist or your doctor is the right next step, and in a crisis in the US you can call or text 988.
Who can read my entries?
You. Entries are private by default, encrypted at rest with a key derived for your account, never shared, and never used to train models. To produce a reflection, the text is sent to the language model provider for that one request with storage turned off, then the reply comes back to you.
Which AI model does it use?
Daystrata is model-agnostic. A thin routing layer sends each request to the configured provider, checks the reply against a strict schema, and falls back to the next provider if one is down. When no model is connected, a small built-in local reader answers instead so the journal never breaks.
How is the artwork made?
In code. Your entry's mood, energy, tension, themes and the hour you wrote become parameters for a seeded generative renderer: palette from mood and energy, line density from energy, turbulence from tension, one thin vein per theme. The same entry always draws the same stratum.
What happens on the free plan after 30 days?
You can keep writing every day. Entries older than 30 days stay safe but are hidden from view until you upgrade, and you can export or delete all of them at any time.
Can I really delete everything?
Yes. Delete one entry, all entries, or your whole account from Settings. Deletion removes the entries and everything derived from them, like reflections, tags and pattern reports, from our database right away.
Can I dictate instead of typing?
On Journal and Archive, yes. Dictation uses your browser's built-in speech recognition, and you can always edit the text before saving. If your browser does not support it, the typed editor is right there.