StoryPad

A timeline diary for your whole life—no folders, no tabs.

Most journal apps force your life into neat little boxes. StoryPad flips that: everything you log lands on one continuous timeline, so you can see your days the way they happened. Notes, feelings, workouts, trips, and to-dos all live in one place—without folders or tabs.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How to keep a daily journal when you hate organizing notes into folders?
Stop sorting. Put every entry into one chronological stream so you never face the “where does this go?” question. Storypad.me is built around a single timeline, so your notes, thoughts, and daily logs land in order and stay easy to revisit.
How to track moods and mental health patterns without using multiple apps?
Best way to keep a photo journal that doesn’t turn into a messy camera roll?
How to journal when typing feels like a chore?
How to combine to-dos and personal notes without losing either one?
Why do I stop journaling after a week?