AI journal and narrated stories
A story that teaches. You pick the lesson, or your journal does.
Learn investing aboard a space freighter. Or write about a decision you keep putting off, and the next chapter can take it up.
A real Gnothi Series
Continue Without Me
A cyberpunk thriller about a founder and the AI agent he hires. Business, AI, and questions about freedom run through the story.
Hear a roughly 30-minute chapter from Continue Without Me.
The lesson happens in the plot
Switch between a cyberpunk story, a fantasy analogy and a straight audio course on the same subjects. These examples were written for this page, so switching is instant and uses no AI credits.
Illustrative snippet
Story · Cyberpunk · AI + businessThe first customer
A founder brings a dazzling demo to a noodle shop just as lunch goes wrong.
Nia's sales demo filled the noodle shop with holographic koi. They swam through the steam, arranged themselves into revenue charts, and passed straight through a delivery rider who was shouting about the missing dumplings. Nobody looked at a single chart.
Behind the counter, Sol lifted an empty bamboo steamer. “Can your fish warn me before this happens?” Nia swept three weeks of beautiful dashboards off the display. Her agent checked the stock sheet and prepared a rush order. It could draft the purchase; only Nia could send it.
She corrected the quantity, tapped Send, and pulled up a much smaller demo: tomorrow's shortages, before the lunch rush. Sol leaned over to read it. For the first time all morning, he stopped shouting. One forgotten koi drifted through his head.
Write where you got stuck. The next chapter can take it up.
Write or dictate an entry, and Gnothi adds a title and summary. Chat with your entries when you want to think something through. A new Series reads your whole journal by default; narrow it to chosen tags or turn it off when you create it, or later in Settings.
Write it down
Write about what's on your mind. A connected story can take it up without retelling your week, and nobody in it tells you what to do. In nonfiction, chapters teach and explain from it.
Keep a learning journal
Note what clicked and where you got stuck. An audio course ties its segments to what you have been writing about, and a blocker you name today comes before whatever was next.
Riff on your story
Jot down a scene, a character or a what-if. Once your journal is connected, what you write after a chapter goes into planning the next one, so Gnothi works like a ghost-writer drafting from your notes.
Three ways people actually run it
Each one is a full setup: the settings, the order to do them in, and what it will not do.
Each chapter picks up where the last left off
Chapters run about half an hour, and a Series keeps going for as long as you like or ends at a target you set. The Logbook is Gnothi's running record of your Series, so chapter 40 can remember chapter 3.
Steer what comes next
Add a Series Direction in the Logbook to say where the story should go. The next chapter reads it once, then it's cleared. The premise and topics stay editable in Settings.
Read, listen, and publish
Read in the chapter view, hear the included narration, export completed chapters together as an EPUB, or enable an RSS feed after choosing a public tier and confirming your rights. See the publishing guide.
Keep the rest of Gnothi within reach
Journal, Fields, chat, sharing, and Groups have their own homes. Use them on their own or connect the context you choose to a Series.
What's free, what runs on credits, and what isn't
You don't know how much you'll use it, so you shouldn't pay monthly for it. A chapter runs about $0.98 in credits (more when Opus is used), narration included, and every account starts with enough for about five. After that, a one-time $10 top-up adds 1M credits, roughly ten more chapters, and unlocks the paid features below for good, Opus among them. Credits don't expire.
Included without AI credits
Journaling, tags, and as many Fields as you want
Reading and listening to your Chapters, as often as you like
A Feed URL for a Series you choose to publish; the URL itself has no access control
Sharing at the "full" privacy tier, with anyone you choose
Uses your starting AI credits
Series Chapters, about $0.98 each (more when Opus is used), narrated in the default voice and generated on demand or on a cadence you set
The causal analysis over your Fields, and the plain-language read of what it found
Story chat and dictation when you would rather talk than type
Unlocked by the one-time top-up
Starting a group of your own; joining and posting in one is free
The Summary and Sensitive share tiers, which limit what a reader receives from your entry
Choosing the narration voice, from the four presets or one you clone or design
Opus, the stronger model, for Series chapters
Turning your own text or files into audio
Create your series
Write your premise and topics, then decide when to make the first chapter.
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