Your private journal & planner

Your private personal journal to write what you really think.

Without correcting yourself. Without dressing it up. Without wondering who might read it.

That conversation you've been replaying in the shower for days. Write it down tonight, just as it comes, and tomorrow decide what to do with it.

From $4 a month, paying for the year. If within 30 days you see it's not for you, we refund your money. $4/month paying for the year · 30-day guarantee

There are things you don't tell anyone.

Not because you have no one to tell.

Because some ideas aren't ready to leave your head yet.

A decision you've been putting off for weeks.

A message you've written three times and haven't sent.

A project that excites you and scares you in equal measure.

Something that happened, and you still don't know what it means.

That deserves a place too.

A place where you can write it exactly as it comes to you.

Without turning it into a post.

Without sharing it.

Without having to explain it to anyone.

Just so you can understand it.

Your journal isn't public. And it never will be.

Privacy isn't an extra. It's what lets you write for real.

Write as if no one were going to read it. Because no one is.

A journal where you have to hold back isn't a journal. It's a form.

That's why idazery works like this:

  • There's nothing to publish. No profiles, no followers, no share button. What you write can't end up in front of anyone by mistake.
  • No ads. Ever. Your private life is not a product to sell.
  • Your data is never sold or shared. With anyone.
  • We don't use what you write to train any AI.
  • Your data is yours. Export it or delete it whenever you want.

idazery keeps what you write. It doesn't read it.

See how we protect your data →

One place for all of it

You don't need five apps for five parts of your life.

One to write. Another to jot something down. Another to remember a task. Another to track how you feel. And a sixth to try to make sense of what you did with all of it.

In idazery, it all lives in one place. Nothing to set up, no templates, no new system to learn.

idazery timeline: a journal entry with the day’s tasks underneath
Journal

Write every day in your timeline. What you were thinking a year ago is still there, on its date.

Under each entry, the tasks that come out of it. And a color for how you felt: over the weeks you'll start to see your patterns.

idazery monthly planner with tasks by day
Planner

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

Recurring things (workouts, calling home, the weekly review) show up on their own whenever they're due.

A note in idazery: notes for planning a trip
Notes

For what doesn't belong to a specific day: ideas, reading notes, lists. And you can link them from your journal.

Your notes on a trip, a book or a project, at hand when you need them.

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

On your phone or your computer, nothing to install.

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 think with what you do next.

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

  1. Think. Write about what you're going through, with no structure and without judging yourself. What you don't write down gets lost.
  2. See. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

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Learn the idazery method in detail →

For people who already write

idazery isn't trying to convince you that keeping a journal is a good idea. If you've never wanted to write, you probably don't need another app to remind you.

This is for you if you already write (or want to) because you know what happens when you get something out of your head and put it in front of you.

It's for you if you want:

  • A private space where you can be completely honest.
  • To come back to what you wrote without digging through files.
  • Your notes right next to what was happening in your life.
  • To discover that you always feel the same on Mondays, and understand why.
  • To turn a reflection into a decision, and a decision into a task.
  • A personal tool, not another social network dressed up as productivity.

It's not for you if:

  • You want to publish or share what you write.
  • You're looking for a free app and don't mind ads.
  • You need to manage projects with a team.

It isn't made for everyone. And that's fine.

A truly personal space doesn't have to appeal to everyone. It has to fit you.

What's valuable is rarely free

There are free apps for almost everything. There are cheap notebooks too. And you can write down your thoughts anywhere.

But when an app is free, someone pays for it. Usually with your data or your attention. While you write, someone is deciding which ad to show you next.

That's why idazery isn't free: no ads and nothing of yours sold to anyone. You're the only customer.

In return you get:

  • A calm space: no ads, no likes, no one watching.
  • Your thoughts, your notes and your plans, in one place.
  • The freedom to write without looking over your shoulder.

From $4 a month with annual billing. About $0.13 a day.

And if you pay for the year and within 30 days you see it's not for you, we refund your money. All of it. No questions asked.

This is what idazery costs.

Monthly
Annual (you save up to 43%)

idazery Premium

$ 7 / mo
You pay $84 once a year.
For those who want it all.
Everything in Pro, plus:
  • Tag analytics & trends
  • Advanced analytics
  • Auto-lock
  • Export to JSON & Markdown
  • Priority support
  • Early access to new features

If within 30 days you see it's not for you, we refund your money.

How it works:

  • You choose Pro or Premium, and whether you pay monthly or yearly.
  • If you pay for the year and within 30 days you see it's not for you, we refund your money.
  • You cancel whenever you want, with one click. What you write is yours: you export it whenever you want.

You decide

Questions

Why isn't idazery free?

Because the only one who pays is you. A free app is funded by ads or by your data, and idazery does neither. Your subscription pays for the servers, the development and the support. Nothing else.

What if it's not for me?

If you paid for the year, you have 30 days to ask for your money back. It's a button in your account: no explanations, no forms. If you pay month by month, you cancel whenever you want and you don't pay again. And what you wrote is yours: you export it whenever you want.

Is my data private? How secure is my journal?

Yes. Everything you write in idazery is encrypted in transit and at rest. We never share anything with third parties or use it for advertising. Only you can see your content.

You can export or delete everything anytime.

Can I cancel or delete my account whenever I want?

Yes. You cancel your subscription with one click, with no penalties, and keep access until the end of the period you've paid for. After that, we keep your data for 60 days in case you come back, and then delete it. And you can delete your account and all your data permanently whenever you want.

Does it work on my phone?

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. Your data is always up to date on all of them.

Can I export my data?

Yes. Your data is yours. With Pro, as TXT or PDF. With Premium, also as JSON and Markdown.

One last thing

Someday you'll reread what you wrote today.

Maybe that conversation from the shower won't keep you up at night anymore. Maybe you'll understand why you made that decision. Or maybe you'll simply be glad you had a place to write it all down without having to pretend.

That place can be idazery.

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The idazery Practice

Every Sunday, an email to go from thinking to doing.

One idea, one observation, one question and one action. It takes five minutes to read and leaves you with something concrete to do that week.

It's free, you don't need an account and you can unsubscribe with one click.

A real excerpt:

You don't need more time.

You've been thinking about the same thing for days.

You already know what to do.

But you keep thinking.

Because thinking feels easier than deciding.

The question isn't what you should do.

It's: …

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