Voice journal app: say a thought to your watch, and it's saved
On Apple Watch or Wear OS, tap Journal and say what you want to keep. Gnothi gathers the day's thoughts into a journal entry for you. On your phone or the web, dictate an entry or upload a recording and Gnothi transcribes it.
Saving a thought from the watch works with AI off, and one you say without a connection waits on the watch until it can send.
Voice journaling on Apple Watch and Wear OS
Tap Journal, say the thought, and the watch says Saved.
Open Gnothi on the watch and tap Journal, or tap the Journal complication on your watch face. Say what you want to keep: an idea for the chapter you're writing, a question for tomorrow's meeting, something your kid said at dinner. The watch's own speech-to-text takes it down, and the watch buzzes and shows Saved.
With AI on, Gnothi also cleans up each thought with your speech dictionary, which fixes the names and terms dictation tends to get wrong.
Journal sits beside Do it, which is for commands. With AI on, say "dentist appointment 3pm Saturday" to Do it and it goes on your to-dos, due Saturday.
Micro journaling: say short thoughts all day, read them as an entry
What you say to Journal is gathered into your journal in order, normally as one entry a day.
After midnight your time, Gnothi gathers the day's waiting thoughts into one entry dated to that day, under your Main tag. Each line starts with its time, so a day might read:
- 7:48 AM The borrow checker finally clicked when I drew ownership as arrows between the boxes.
- 12:31 PM Ask Sam whether the Thursday deadline is real before I cancel the weekend.
- 6:05 PM Kept the call with Dad short again. Next time I want to ask him about the move.
Until then, they wait on your phone and on the web, above your entries, under Today's thoughts. Read them there, delete one you didn't mean to keep, or tap Save as entry now to make an entry from them early, and anything you say after that goes into the next one. Once it's an entry, you can edit it like any other, and with AI on it gets a title and summary.
An audio journal on your phone and the web
Speak into a new entry, or hand Gnothi a recording.
Tap the mic in a new entry and talk. Your words appear in the draft as you go, a few sentences at a time, and when you stop, a cleanup pass fixes the punctuation and, from your speech dictionary, the names. Then you edit and save it like a typed entry.
On the phone, the Gnothi widget on your home screen or the quick action on the app icon opens a new entry with the mic already on.
Recorded something somewhere else, like a voice memo? Upload an M4A, MP3 or WAV file up to three hours long. Gnothi transcribes it with a speech-to-text model it runs privately on AWS, then adds the text to the draft you're writing. It doesn't save the entry for you, so you can read it over first, and it deletes the recording once the transcript is done.
Dictation and uploads need AI turned on, and an upload spends credits by its length.
What your spoken entries can turn into
Gnothi writes you a book, one chapter at a time, and your journal can steer the next chapter if you want it to.
Start a book from your entries. It can read all of them, only chosen tags, or none, and what you've said since the last chapter goes into planning the next one. Told straight, a chapter names what's in the way and often ends on a step you can start today. As a Parable, its hero handles things the way you do, it costs them, and they try another way.
When a chapter that reads your Main entries starts, Gnothi first turns your waiting thoughts into an entry so the chapter has them, and what you say after that goes into a new one. That includes a chapter you start from the watch with New chapter.
Learning something? Name the subject and Gnothi writes narrated chapters of about half an hour, with a syllabus you can edit that remembers what it covered. Say where you got stuck as you go, and the next chapter can take it up. Read it or listen.
Common questions
What is a voice journal?
A journal you speak instead of type. In Gnothi you can do it three ways: say thoughts to your watch and read them back as journal entries, dictate an entry on your phone or the web, or upload a recording and have it transcribed into a draft.
How do I set up voice journaling on my watch?
Install Gnothi on your phone, then connect the watch under Account › Security › Connect watch. An iPhone connects to Apple Watch, and an Android phone to a Wear OS watch. After that, tap Journal on the watch.
Can I use Gnothi as a voice diary app?
Yes. Thoughts said on the watch become dated entries, normally one a day, and every entry, spoken or typed, stays in your journal, where you can tag it, edit it or delete it.
Which voice features use AI?
Dictation and uploads in the app, the cleanup with your speech dictionary, and the titles, summaries and chapters made from your entries.
What about names dictation gets wrong?
With AI on, Gnothi cleans each dictation with your speech dictionary: a list of names and terms, each with optional sound-alikes. You can edit it in Settings, and Gnothi adds names it finds in your entries.
Can I record in other languages?
Uploaded recordings can be in any of 25 European languages, such as Spanish, and come back in that language. Live dictation in the app is English. On the watch, the words come from the watch's own speech-to-text.
Is it free?
Making an account, writing entries and saving thoughts from the watch are free, and new accounts start with free credits for the AI features, such as summaries, uploads and chapters.
Say your first entry
Tap Journal on your watch, or the mic in a new entry on your phone or the web. Making an account is free.
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