Thanks so much for your detailed feedback and for watching my rather unvarnished intro video with too many ums and ahs!

- Calendar is central, but I use a Google calendar which is important to me. Connect it? Dlog will use the default apple calendar which, if is your Google calendar, will display automatically. - Seems like a "dlog" is a calendar entry. So is my "journal" broken up into separate pages, not a sequential document or blog?

Not quite, a calendar event has a title and notes. The title of the dlog will be whatever you call it, the default is (if your name is anon) Anon’s Dlog. The notes of the event are where the journal entry is stored; along with Dlog tags such as goals, journal type, and sentiment scoring. - 2:30 ff, strongly suggest that for your next video you pre-script it to avoid fumbling and mumbling.

Yes, agreed, I made that very quickly yesterday. I’ll re-record it today. I still want to keep it quite unvarnished though as the HN mods told me that this is what Show HN community prefers

- 5:10 side note, interesting that your personality(?) model was from 2018, well before LLMs.

Yes, I never dreamed this would be possible until the introduction of ChatGPT. - 7:50 for an app to produce such output (impact of a friend on mood) you surely must do a copious amount of extremely frank journaling. When, and in what format? As scattered calendar entries? I'm confused how I fuel the app.

Yes, you’d just journal normally, as you have various important experiences you can journal about this in free form, stream of consciousness etc.; or use the guided four rings prompts in the Journal Coach at the top left of the Dlog entry area. It doesn’t have to be copious, or systematic, because the model is time series, it doesn’t require fixed repeated entries. If you use Dlog for a few days or weeks I’d be very interested to see if you found the responses useful. And again, if you send me a DM I’ll provide a free perpetual license so Dlog is always free for you to use.

- 10:40 relating diary entries (reported activities and attitudes) to one's stated goals -- this is what I would expect an AI to do, and tell me about them rather than the reverse.

The feature at 10:40 relates to just summarizing the entries that have been added to that goal; it is not related to the AI coach (which does what you’ve stated that you expect i.e. relates diary entries to activities and attitudes to ones goals) - I'm sorry, I just don't see how I could use or adapt to something like this when I have a well-established diary/blog and calendar, it would mean changing many daily habits and adding what looks like a lot of detail work.

Apologies, I do think the technical intro video is giving a lot of behind the scenes background information which may be overwhelming if you’re simply looking to journal and improve well-being.

I would gently recommend that you try it out for a few days and see that it’s fairly intuitive to use and well worth the process once you start seeing the insights from the coach (which get better over time).

Warm regards, Dr J.