A private AI notebook for researchers
Journal Genie is a private AI notebook for researchers: bring the papers, PDFs, and notes you’re working through and ask questions that get answers citing the exact passage. Your sources are isolated per user, never used to train AI, and exportable in one click — so your literature and your thinking stay yours, not a vendor’s training set.
Journal Genie is a private, source-grounded notebook for researchers that cites the exact passage behind every answer and never trains on your papers or notes.
Research is reading, connecting, and remembering — across more sources than any one head holds. An AI that could reason over your literature would help, if you could trust where its answers came from and what it did with your material.
Journal Genie is built for exactly that: grounded answers cited to your own sources, a private space for your working notes, and a hard line against training on your work.
Journal Genie vs. pasting papers into a general chatbot
A general chatbot can summarize a pasted paper. The difference is whether the answer cites the passage, whether your material is kept private, and whether the context you build is yours to keep.
| Capability | Journal Genie | pasting papers into a general chatbot |
|---|---|---|
| Answers cite the exact source passage | Yes. Click through to the cited page | Often summarizes without checkable citations |
| Never trains on your papers or notes | Yes. Never trains on your work; per-user isolation | Many train on inputs by default |
| A durable corpus that compounds across sessions | Yes. Notebooks + notes persist and stay grounded | Context is usually per-conversation |
| Export your corpus and citations in one click | Yes. Plain markdown, any time | Export varies; rarely whole-corpus |
Ask across your literature
Add the papers, reports, and web sources you’re working through, then ask where they agree, where they disagree, and what a specific claim rests on. Every point in the answer cites the source passage, so you can verify it — and when your sources don’t settle a question, the AI says so instead of guessing.
A private working notebook
Keep your half-formed ideas and reading notes in a journal that is private by default — the “sacred bucket.” Nothing you write is read by the AI unless you opt a specific entry in, so you can think out loud without it becoming context, training data, or ad signal.
Your corpus stays yours
Sources and notes are isolated per user with row-level security and encrypted in transit and at rest, never used to train AI, and never sold. One click exports your notebooks, notes, and citations in plain markdown — so the corpus you build is portable, not captive.
Honest limits for research use
- Journal Genie is not a systematic-review platform or a reference manager. It complements a dedicated reference manager or systematic-review tool — it doesn’t replace citation management or formal screening.
- Answers are cited to your sources, which is not a guarantee the source itself is correct. Reading the cited passage is still the researcher’s job.
Questions, answered first.
Can I use Journal Genie to ask questions across my research papers?
Yes. Add your papers, reports, and web sources, then ask grounded questions. Each answer cites the exact passage it came from, and you can click through to read it. Your sources are isolated per user and never used to train AI.
Are my papers and notes used to train AI?
No. Your sources and notes are never used to train AI, never sold, and never shown ads against. They are isolated per user and encrypted in transit and at rest, and you can export or delete them yourself.
What source types can I add?
Text-extractable PDFs, web URLs Journal Genie fetches and parses, and pasted plain text. Scanned or image-only PDFs need OCR first.
Related, and the proof behind it.
Put your literature to the question.
Add a few papers and ask what they actually say. Read the citations. Free to start; export your corpus any time.