Journal and personal planner on one timeline

Writing is good. But it isn't always enough.

You can write about the same problem for months. Fill pages about that project. Explain perfectly what you want to do. And still do nothing.

It isn't laziness. One step is missing: the one that connects what you write with what you do next.

That's what the idazery method is for. Four steps:

Write. What's happening in your life, with no structure and without judging yourself. What you don't write down gets lost.
Look. One Sunday you reread your last few weeks and you see it: on the days you sleep badly, you put everything off. You'd gone months without noticing. That only shows up once it's written down.
Decide. From what you see, you pull out one concrete intention. Not “I want to be more organized”, but “on Monday I'll do this before opening my email”. It's the step almost everyone skips.
Do. The intention gets a date and a place in your planner. And one day you check it off.

Before “I have to deal with this someday.”

After “On Tuesday at 10:00, I'll do the first part.”

It looks like a small difference. It's the difference between thinking about it and doing it.

Not to produce more. To stop going around in circles about the same thing.

Learn the idazery method in detail

This is how idazery works.

idazery Decide step: a prompt under the day's entry offers to turn something into a task

Journal

Write every day. Everything stays on its date.

Each day has its own space: you write, add photos and mark it as a favorite if it's worth keeping. Right there you also see the reminders that fall on that day and your tasks, pending and done, grouped by topic. You pick how you felt, and with “On this day” what you wrote on that same date in other years comes back.

idazery agenda: your week by the hour, with the duration of each task

Planner

What you decide while writing becomes a task with a date. You see it in your day, your week or your month.

Every task has its date, and you can see them by day, by week or by month, grouped by topic so you know what belongs to what. Pending and done tasks live in the same view, so you see what's left to do and also what you've already closed.

If something repeats (working out, calling home, the weekly review), you set it up once as a recurring task and it shows up on its own whenever it's due.

Need more precision? Give your tasks a time and a duration and look at your week hour by hour in the agenda view.

It can be linked with Google and Outlook calendars.

A note in idazery: notes for planning a trip

idazery timeline with the reminders panel open on the left and a reminder on its day in the journal.

Notes and reminders

For what doesn't belong to a specific day: ideas, reading notes, lists. And for what you don't want to forget: birthdays, deadlines and dates that come back every year.

Your notes on a trip, a book or a project, linked from your journal and at hand when you need them. And each note remembers which days you mentioned it.

Each reminder shows up on its own day in your journal, with the years that have passed. And if you want, it also reaches you by email.

idazery Year in Pixels: every day of the year, colored by how you felt.

Patterns

Look at your last few weeks and see what you couldn't see: which days go better, which go worse and what they have in common.

Every day you save how you felt with a color. Over time, idazery shows you your patterns by day of the week and by month, and which was your best week. And each day reminds you what you wrote on the same day in earlier years. The productivity statistics add how many tasks you finish each month and how your weeks go.

It's all still yours. And it all lives where you do your thinking.

On your phone or your computer, straight from the browser. Or as an app, if you prefer.

Who uses idazery

The people who already benefit from idazery are people who:

When your head is full

They keep turning over a decision they've been putting off for weeks. They write it down, look at it head on and give it a date.
Their head is full of to-dos and they have no list that really works for them. They get everything out of their head and turn it into tasks with a day.
They have an endless task list and don't know which one to start with. They pick one, plan it for a specific day, and the rest stop weighing on them.
There's a conversation they've been avoiding for weeks. They write it down first, just as it comes, and then decide what to do with it.

When things slip away

They forget birthdays, deadlines and calls they meant to make. They save them as reminders with a date, and they come back every year or every month on their own.
They save notes they never open again. Their notes sit next to what was happening in their life, and they link them from their entries.
They have photos of important moments lost on their phone, with no context. They put them in that day's entry, next to what they wrote, and find them later in the gallery.
Something that matters to them (a project, a person, their health) is scattered across months of entries. With a tag they gather every day and note where it appears, in one click.
They write in one place, plan in another and log how they feel in a third, and nothing connects. Entry, tasks, notes, photos and mood for each day, in one timeline, with all their context.

When you want to understand yourself

They feel they repeat the same thing every week and don't know why. They reread their weeks and discover the pattern.
Some days they feel better and others worse, and they don't know why. They log their mood every day and see which tags lift it or lower it.
By December they can't remember how their year went. They see it at a glance, day by day, with their mood in colors.
They feel they're not moving forward, even though they keep closing tasks. They look at what they finished each month and see how far they've come.
Today's worry feels huge, and they can't remember what worried them six months ago. “On this day” shows them what they wrote weeks, months and years ago.
They start with enthusiasm and drop it the first day they skip. One sentence and their mood is enough for the day to count, and they watch their streak grow.

If you don't see yourself in any of these, that's fine: idazery may not be what you need right now.

Questions

What happens when the free trial ends?

You try idazery free for 14 days, with the plan you choose and no card, so you don't pay anything unless you want to. When it ends, you decide whether to keep the plan you tried. If you don't, you can write on up to 5 new days with content each month (always in the current month), and the entries you already have stay available to read, edit and export.

Is my data private? How secure is my journal?

Yes. Everything you write in idazery is encrypted in transit and at rest. Nothing is shared with third parties or used for advertising. Only you can see your content.

You can export or delete everything anytime.

More about how idazery protects your diary

Can I cancel or delete my account whenever I want?

Yes. Your plan doesn't renew by itself: it lasts until the end of the period you've paid for, and then the entries you already have stay available to read, edit and export, and you can write on up to 5 new days with content each month (always in the current month). And you can delete your account and all your data permanently whenever you want.

Does it work on any device?

Yes. It works on your phone, tablet and computer, with nothing to install. If you like, you add it to your home screen and it opens like an app, and on Windows you can also get it from the Microsoft Store. Your data is always up to date on all of them.

Can I export my data?

Yes. Your data is yours, and you can export it whenever you want, in TXT, PDF, JSON and Markdown formats.

Your life, in order