How to Use Kin's Journal
Kin's Journal feature can turn your daily thoughts into powerful, personal insights—helping you become more self-aware.
Kin has a dedicated Journal feature, giving you a free space to record your thoughts, or even do things like manage your anxiety. Powered by artificial intelligence, Kin can then use these Journal entries to better support you. But how?
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To help you use it, this article covers:
How to Navigate Kin’s Journal
Maximizing Your Personal AI Journal
Extra Tips for Using Your AI Companion
Get Started Today with Your AI Assistant
So, let’s go.
How to Navigate Kin’s Journal
Here’s how to the Journal feature works:
Step One: Access the Journal
Open the Kin app, and tap on the book icon in the bottom left, then it’s over to you.
💡 Kin will give you the option to either type or speak your Journal entry, to better fit you.
Step Two: Use the Prompt—or Don’t
Every daily Journal contains a randomized prompt for inspiration at the top of the page.
If you’re not sure where to start journaling, writing down what the prompt makes you think about can be a good way to begin. But you can ignore it, too!
💡 Want a prompt, but don’t like the one you’ve got? Hit the refresh button in the top right corner to get a new prompt!
Step Three: Visit the Streaks & Stats Tab
Once you’ve written your entry, return to the homepage with the back button in the top left, and hit the flame icon in the top right. From here, you can track how many days you’ve used Kin in a row (your streak), and see what Kin learned from your Journal entry today.
Maximizing Your Personal AI Journal
Want to make full use of the Journal feature? Here are some extra tips:
Let Yourself Write Freely
Each daily Journal entry is a blank space for you. There is no right or wrong; you can fill it with whatever you choose.
The aim of journaling isn’t to come to a big revelation, or even to write about your daily experience. It’s just to write. The rest comes by itself—so write freely.
Try to Journal Regularly
Regular journaling helps both you and Kin notice patterns in your behavior and relationships. Kin stores these in its personal memory of you, which helps Kin better understand how to guide you in the future.
Regularly doesn’t have to mean every day—though that is often best. Once a week or even once a month is better than nothing!
Discuss Entries with Kin
Unlike traditional journaling, Kin can discuss your Journal entries with you, as well as record them. In its advanced AI chatbot Chat feature, Kin can ask questions to help you elaborate and understand yourself, explain different points of view, and even make suggestions on what is best for you to do next.
This interactive, pressure-free space can be a powerful way to explore your thoughts, at your own pace.
Trust The Data’s Safe
Journal entries are inherently personal. That’s why, along with the rest of Kin’s memory of you, they’re handled securely. You can read more in our privacy blog.
You can also always view or delete what Kin knows about you through the app, too. Not even we can do that.
Extra Tips for Using Your AI Companion
Those aren’t the only things you can do. Here are some more ideas for getting the most from Kin’s Journal:
Get Comfortable: Choose a quiet moment when you won't be interrupted, and decide whether you want to write or speak, so you can just Journal.
Consider Prompts: Look at today’s prompt, and see if it inspires anything. But if you already have something in mind, or feel yourself drifting away from the prompt, that’s okay. Just keep writing.
Anything Goes: It doesn’t matter if you write one word, or 10,000. It doesn’t even matter what words they are. What matters is you wrote what you wanted to.
Add Feeling: That being said, many people find it helpful to consider their feelings as they write, and to include them. It might sound cliche, but it helps.
Don’t Push: If you’re finding it really hard to write anything, don’t force it. Just write that you struggled, and come back to it later—even during your next session.
And, remember—Journaling helps inform Kin's Memory about you. The more you use it, the more personal and valuable Kin’s insights will become. You can always discuss your Journal entries or even your feelings in Kin’s regular chat too, if you’re seeking interactivity.
Get Started Today with your AI Assistant:
Ready to start journaling? Here's a prompt you can send Kin to help it help you through the process:
“Hey Kin, how should I best Journal with you?”