A private AI notebook for writers
Journal Genie is a private AI notebook for writers: keep your research, drafts, and a private journal in one place, and let an AI reason over your own material with citations. It never trains on your writing — your voice and your words stay yours — and everything you create exports in one click as plain markdown.
Journal Genie is a private notebook for writers that reasons over your own research and drafts, never trains on your writing, and exports everything in one click.
Writing is research, then thinking, then more thinking. The AI tools that promise to help usually want the one thing a writer should guard most closely: the words themselves, fed back into a model.
Journal Genie is designed so your material stays yours. Bring your sources, keep a private journal, and let the AI reason over what you give it — grounded, cited, and never used for training.
Research without leaving your desk
Gather the articles, interviews, and references behind a piece as sources, then ask what they say and where they conflict. Answers cite the exact passage, so you can quote and fact-check from the same place you research — and when the sources don’t support a claim, you find out before it lands in a draft.
A journal that never becomes training data
Draft freely 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 the raw, unfinished thinking that good writing needs stays out of any model.
Own your words
Your drafts, notes, and sources are isolated per user, encrypted in transit and at rest, never used to train AI, and never sold. One click exports the whole thing in plain markdown, so your work is portable — a manuscript you can always walk away with.
What it won’t do
- Journal Genie reasons over the material you give it; it won’t invent facts or ghostwrite convincingly from nothing, and it shouldn’t pretend to be your voice.
- It’s a research-and-thinking tool for writers, not a replacement for writing. The best drafts still come from you.
Questions, answered first.
Will Journal Genie train AI on my writing?
No. Your drafts, notes, and journal are never used to train AI, never sold, and never shown ads against. Your journal is private by default; the AI reads an entry only when you opt it in.
Can I keep research and drafting in one place?
Yes. Add your sources to a notebook for grounded, cited research, and keep your drafting and notes in a private journal. Both are isolated per user, and you can export everything in one click as plain markdown.
Is my journal really private?
Yes. The journal is a “sacred bucket” — private by default and excluded from the AI until you opt a specific entry in. Past entries are never bulk-included, and there is no background process reading it.
Related, and the proof behind it.
Research and draft in one private place.
Bring the sources behind your next piece and keep your notes where no model can read them. Free to start; export any time.