Folders are a lie.

Most journal apps make you play librarian.

You don’t live in categories. You live in time.

StoryPad (storypad.me) ships with a blunt premise: your life should scroll like a timeline, not splinter into notebooks, tags, and “systems” you’ll quit in two weeks. You write. It stays in order. That’s the point.

What StoryPad is actually selling

It’s not “journaling”. It’s recall.

StoryPad captures everything on a single chronological feed - notes, thoughts, emotions, workouts, travel moments, and the random stuff you’d usually dump into five apps.

Here’s the deal: when your entries share one timeline, patterns jump out. Your mood dips after late nights. Your best weeks start with training. That trip you forgot? It’s sitting right next to the day you booked it.

Features that match real life

One continuous timeline

No folders. No tabs. No “where should I put this?”

You add an entry and move on. Later, you scroll and find it because it happened.

Write it, snap it, say it

The homepage calls out use cases that feel honest: daily journaling, photo journals, voice journaling, mental health reflection, and keeping notes + to-dos together.

That mix matters. Some days you type. Some days you talk. Some days you just drop a photo and a sentence.

Minimal by design (so you keep using it)

Most diary apps drown you in settings.

StoryPad’s pitch is the opposite: fewer choices, less fiddling, more reps. The timeline becomes the habit.

Open source, and that changes the trust math

StoryPad links its GitHub repo right on the site.

If you’ve ever had a “private” journaling app creep you out with vague claims, you get why this matters. Open code won’t fix everything, but it raises the bar: you can inspect, self-host someday, or at least see a real project instead of a black box.

Where it fits

StoryPad is for people who want a life log, not a scrapbook.

If you’re tired of apps that turn “reflecting” into homework, storypad.me is betting you’ll stick with the simplest shape: time, stacked day by day.

Category "Journaling & Mood Tracking" on Achiv

1. SexTracker

2. StoryPad