Privacy & Trust
You can keep a complete digital journal and never let a model read it. Here is what that has to include, and what Daylogue does with AI off.
A lot of people want the convenience of a digital journal — search, a calendar, entries that survive a lost notebook — without an AI reading what they wrote. That is a reasonable thing to want, and it should not mean settling for a stripped-down mode. A journal without AI has to be a complete journal.
Three separate things, and an app can do any one of them without the others:
During setup on web and iPhone, Daylogue asks whether you want AI assistance or not, with neither option preselected. An account that has not chosen stays in No AI mode. With it on, the journal keeps:
What it gives up: conversational check-ins, voice, narratives written for you, automatic themes, and search by meaning rather than by the words you used. Those are real losses, and they are the point of the choice.
No AI mode is not a device-local or end-to-end-encrypted mode. Entries still sync to and are stored by Daylogue, and Daylogue can read them; what changes is that no model does. It is enforced on web, iPhone, and the watch app; the Android app does not yet offer or enforce it. Turning AI back on applies only to future content — nothing protected while the mode was on is backfilled. If end-to-end encryption is a hard requirement for you, Daylogue is not the tool that meets it.
Read how Daylogue uses AI, and how to turn it off, and the five questions worth asking before you let any app read your journal.
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