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title: "AI doesn’t belong in journaling"
description: "The author reflects on their decision to delete the Day One journaling app after Apple announced its Journal app, which uses on-device machine learning for prompts based on personal data. The author e"
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locale: "en"
url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/254472679.md"
published_at: "2025-08-25T14:34:45.000Z"
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# AI doesn’t belong in journaling

> The author reflects on their decision to delete the Day One journaling app after Apple announced its Journal app, which uses on-device machine learning for prompts based on personal data. The author expresses discomfort with this approach, recalling a negative experience with the Photos app's Memories feature.

In July 2023, I deleted the Day One journaling app from my phone and laptop. It was perhaps the best thing I've done as a lifelong diarist.

The decision was prompted by Apple announcing its Journal app at WWDC that year. In that keynote, Apple said it would use "on-device machine learning" to provide prompts based on the content in your iPhone - things like contacts, photos, music, workouts, podcasts, and location data. The idea gave me the ick. Mainly because the app was described as a riff on the Memories feature in the Photos app, which at the time had "intelligently" resurfaced a photo of my mother's open casket.

I had flashbacks to t …

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