MyNotes for journaling

A journal that doesn't try to be your friend

Most "journaling apps" want to be coaches: streak counters, daily prompts, mood-tracking dashboards, weekly summaries by an AI. If that helps you, great — there are good apps for that. MyNotes is the opposite stance. You sign in, you write, you sign out. No badges, no nudges, no algorithm reading what you wrote. The notebook is private, by default, forever.

Two formats that work

• One note per day. Date the title (2026-04-28 — Tuesday), write, save, close. Six months later, full-text search finds the entry where you mentioned the thing you can't quite remember.
• One ever-growing note in append-only mode. Toggle append-only on the editor. New entries can only be added at the end — you can't accidentally rewrite the past. A single note can hold ~250,000 words, which is multiple years of daily entries.

Why writers stick with it

• Nothing breaks the page. No "you're on day 47!" toasts. No suggested prompts. No "review your year" pop-ups.
• Same notebook on every device. Phone in bed, browser at the desk, library Chromebook. Sign in, pick up where you stopped.
• Your text isn't training data. The Terms commit us not to train AI models on your notes or sell them to anyone who would.
• Version history. If you regret something you wrote in a heated mood, edit it in 30 seconds — and if you regret removing something later, the last 5 snapshots are still in History (one per ~10-minute editing session).
• Pin this year's journal. Pinned notes appear as quick-access chips, so today's entry is always one click away from anything else you're doing.

Your archive belongs to you

From Options, one click exports every note as a single .zip — .txt, .docx, and .pdf copies of each. Take it any time. Read + export remain available even after a paid subscription lapses; we don't hold private writing hostage to billing status.

Pricing

Free for 10 notes forever — enough for a few months of "one note per day" journaling, or a single ever-growing note running indefinitely. $19 / year raises that to 1,000 notes — comfortably more than three years of daily entries. No card on the free plan, no trial clock.