Insights on AI journaling, emotional intelligence, and building a reflective practice.
"I feel bad" is a dead end. You cannot do much with "bad". An emotion wheel closes the gap between the feeling and the word for it. Here is how to use one, plus a list of 60+ feelings grouped by family so you can find yours fast.
Read more →"I feel bad" is a dead end. You cannot do anything with bad. The emotion wheel exists because most of us have a vocabulary of six feelings and a life that produces sixty. Here is how to use it in 30 seconds, and where AI picks up what the wheel misses.
Read more →Everyone starts a reading journal in January. By March it is a list of titles with no thoughts attached. The fix is picking ONE job for it, and an entry format that survives real life. Here are five that do.
Read more →The famous notebook costs about $30 and runs out of pages. The method inside it is six prompts and it is not a secret. Here is how the five minute journal works, why the constraint is the point, and the free ways to do it.
Read more →If you are anxious and suspicious of an AI reading your worst nights, that suspicion is healthy. An AI journal can help with anxiety in three specific ways, and it can make things worse in one. Here is the honest map.
Read more →Journaling can feel like shouting into a void. You write for weeks and nothing comes back. Apps promise an AI that writes back, but most responses are noise. Here are the three kinds, and the one worth having.
Read more →Most people don't re-read their journal because they don't know what they're looking for. Five specific things to scan for that consistently catch something useful, from the people who show up too often to the questions you asked and never answered.
Read more →A few weeks ago I thought a project was stuck because of the deadline. Then I looked at my @mentions in Pensio and saw I'd written one specific person's name seventeen times in three weeks. The deadline came up twice. Your journal has been counting for you the whole time
Read more →There is a big difference between tapping a mood and having an app read what you wrote and tell you what is really going on. Here is what emotion tracking should mean, and which AI journals do it for real.
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