AI journal and narrated books
Your own book, one chapter at a time. You pick the lesson, or your journal does.
Gnothi writes a book about something you're learning, like investing, or about your own life, told straight or as a story. Make one for yourself or for your group, and read each chapter or listen to it.
A story made with Gnothi
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
Pick a subject, and the story's problem needs it. Say it's investing: the rule against putting everything on one bet becomes a quartermaster who won't stake the whole profit on one cargo, so if one buyer walks, the crew still eats. Below, switch between a cyberpunk story, a fantasy one 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.
A book about your own life
Keep writing the way you do: a decision you keep putting off, a hard conversation, a project. 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 book reads your whole journal by default; narrow it to chosen tags or turn it off when you create it, or later in Settings.
Told straight
Pick From Your Entries when you start a book. Each chapter takes up what you've been writing about, names what's in the way and often ends on a step you can start today. When it does, the next chapter asks how that step went.
As a story
Start a Parable on the same entries. The email you haven't sent your boss might become the message the knight hasn't delivered. She handles it the way you do, it costs her, and she tries another way.
Keep a learning journal
Note what clicked and where you got stuck. A course ties its lessons to what you have been writing about, and a blocker you name today comes before whatever was next.
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 book keeps going for as long as you like or ends at a target you set. The Logbook is Gnothi's running record of each book, so chapter 40 can remember chapter 3.
Steer what comes next
Write a direction in the Logbook, such as where the story should go. The next chapter reads it once, then it's cleared. The premise and topics stay editable in Settings.
Read it or listen
Read each chapter in the app, or listen to it like a podcast: every chapter comes narrated. Finished chapters download together as an EPUB or as one audiobook. To publish a book, 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 what you choose to a book.
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 a dollar in credits, narration included, and every account starts with enough for about four. After that, a one-time $10 top-up adds 1M credits, roughly nine more chapters, and unlocks the paid features below for good. 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 book 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
Chapters, about a dollar each, 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
Adding recorded episodes
Start your book
Name what it's about and whether to tell it straight or as a story, then make the first chapter when you're ready.
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