myjournal
Quiet by design
One page a day, intentionally simple, with no extra clutter competing with your writing.
Sign in again
Sign in with the same account, then return to your original tab and retry. Keep that tab open.
If you have unsaved text, copy it before closing the tab.
A private online journal in your Google Drive
A quiet place to write, one page a day.
myjournal is a personal journal for one plain-text entry per day. Write about today, revisit past entries, browse your calendar, and move entries to trash. Your saved files live in your own Google Drive.
Stored in your Drive
Your journal lives in a plain-text folder in your own Google Drive, not in a proprietary app database.
Easy to recover
Unsaved drafts stay in this browser tab for recovery. Clear save states help you see when your writing still needs attention. An internet connection is required to load and save entries.
Your journal, connected to your Drive
Google sign-in identifies your account. The drive.file permission lets myjournal create and manage the journal files and folders it creates, without access to all the files in your Drive. You can disconnect in Settings and keep your saved files.
Start a daily journaling habit
- Sign in with Google and allow myjournal to manage the journal files it creates in your Drive.
- Open today’s page and write about your day. Save manually or let autosave save your changes after a pause in typing.
- Find your latest entries in Entries, or choose a month in Calendar to return to an older day.
Before you start writing
Where are my journal entries stored?
Saved entries are plain-text files in the myjournal folder in your own Google Drive. Each date has its own file. myjournal processes your writing to load and save it, with temporary server-side caching; it does not keep a separate journal database.
Can myjournal read everything in my Drive?
No. myjournal requests access to the files and folders it creates, not your entire Drive. Google sign-in identifies your account. You can disconnect the app in Settings while keeping your saved files.
Can I write offline?
An internet connection is required to load and save entries. Unsaved text is backed up in the current browser tab when browser storage is available. Keep that tab open until your writing is saved; closing it can remove the draft.
Can I use my writing outside myjournal?
Yes. Your saved entries are UTF-8 text files, which you can download from Google Drive and open in a text editor. There is no proprietary journal format to export.