A journal you talk to.

You don't open it. You tell the AI you already use what today was — in the car, at the sink, at 11pm — and it files the entry, dates it, tags it, and hands it back to you when you ask what last spring was like.

$15 a month, and it isn't just this app — every Parsons product is on the same subscription. Cancel any time. Delete asks twice, and reading is free forever: a private journal is only worth keeping if it can't be lost by accident.

Works with ClaudeChatGPTCursorthe built-in chat
The journal's own chat, on a phone.
journal.parsons.ai
The Journal console: the chat, with prompts — what did I write about last week, find the day I mentioned the RV, how many days have I written this month.
The console, for when you want to look. Ask it, or read the timeline — with chat built in. Every button on it is also a tool your AI can call.
How it works

Say what today was. It's kept.

01

Say it.

A sentence or a page. Typed, dictated, or spoken to the console's own chat. No editor, no blank page.

Long day. The RV's water pump finally works. Dinner with Dana, felt like the first real week in months.
Tonight 9:48 pm
Long day. The RV's water pump finally works. Dinner with Dana, felt like the first real week in months.
Kept — Sep 21, tagged rv, dana, good day.
Entry #412 · 2,000 a month included
02

Paste one link into your AI.

Your account comes with one private address. Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor once, and Journal's tools are there. No AI of your own? The console has chat built in.

Your connection MCP Hub
https://mcp-hub.parsons.ai/p/prof_••••••••/mcp
ClaudeChatGPTCursorany MCP client
Paste it once. Tools you haven't granted aren't there.
03

Ask it what you wrote.

By date, by person, by feeling, by anything. It reads your own entries, not a summary of them.

When did I first mention the water pump?
Found 3 entries
AugAug 9 · "pump is dead again"rv
SepSep 3 · "ordered the Shurflo"rv
SepSep 21 · "finally works"rv
Six weeks, three entries. Aug 9 was the first.
04

Let it reflect it back.

"What was September like?" — it reads the month and tells you, in your own words, what you kept noticing.

What kept coming up this month?
September reflection
Three threadsGetting the RV livable (11 entries), Dana (7), and money — mostly relief, twice worry. The good days cluster after the 14th.21 entries · 4,300 words
What you get

A journal that files itself.

Today: shipped the landing page, walked at sunset, slept badly.
Kept — Sep 21, tagged work, walk, sleep.
01

Entries from anywhere

From Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, the console, or a text. No app to open. No blank page to face.

rvdanaworksleepmoney+ 14 more
02

Tags it chooses, and you can change

People, places, moods, projects. Tagged on the way in, so "everything about Dana" is a question, not a search.

This month
21 days
4,300 words · longest streak 9
03

A timeline, if you want one

Days written, streaks, a month at a glance. Or never look, and just ask.

Find the day I decided to leave the apartment.
Mar 3 — "signed nothing yet but I think the RV is the answer." Want the whole entry?
04

Find a day by what it felt like

Search by date, word, person or mood. It reads the entries; it doesn't need you to remember the date.

delete_entry#388 · without confirmrefused — read it first
delete_entry#388 · confirm: truegone
05

Deleting makes you read it first

delete_entry refuses on the first call and shows you the entry. The second call has to confirm. Nothing vanishes on a misread.

JRjournal_reads · this month
JWentries · this month21 / 2,000
06

Reading is free forever

Entries are counted — 2,000 a month included. Reads are metered for visibility and never billed. A journal you can't reread isn't one.

What it can't do

It keeps your words. It cannot lose them by accident.

  • ×Delete an entry on the first askdelete_entry shows you what you're about to destroy and refuses until you confirm.
  • ×Read another project's journalEach journal is scoped to its project. A shared work project's journal never sees the personal one.
  • ×Read your entries to train anythingYour text is read by the tool you called, for the answer you asked. That's all.
  • Write, tag, amend and date entries from any client
  • Search, reflect, count, find a day
  • Export the whole journal, any time
Your AIkeeps · asks
Journalfiles the entry
Your entriesread by you, for you
× delete without reading · no path from here
What we holdYour entries, in your project, encrypted at rest. Nobody at Parsons reads them.
What can change oneYou, or an AI with a granted profile — and amend keeps the history.
What leaving doesExport as text. Delete the project and the entries go with it.

There is no security slogan on this page and no badge we haven't earned. Everything in that list is a thing you can check; the full mechanism and every tool are on the details page.

Pricing

Fifteen dollars a month — and it isn't just this app.

Parsons Cloudmonthly
Every product, one login15.00
Journal · entries, tags, timeline0.00
2,000 entries a month account-wide0.00
Reads uncapped, never billed0.00
Projects unlimited0.00
Seats nobody is billed as one0.00
Total$15.00/mo
or $150 a year — two months free
Start your 14-day trial
Card at checkout · cancel any time · no free tier

Is it worth it? Start where we look worst.

A journal app alone is cheaper than $15. Here's what the well-made ones publish.

Day One Premium$2.92 / mo
Reflectly Premium$9.99 / mo
Apple Journalfree
Parsons — every product$15 / mo

If a journal is the only thing you'll open, buy one of those. Ours is $15 because the same subscription runs Money, Fitness, CRM and the rest — and because the AI you already talk to is the one writing in it. And there is no free tier because a free journal is one whose words are being paid for some other way.

Say what today was, and ask what last month was like.