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A n n a l

A private chronicle of the small data of your life.

Fitness, mood, sleep, the state of a marriage. The fields are yours to define, the entries are yours to keep, the workspace is yours to share — or not.

Free to use.

The word annal means a record of events kept year by year — in plain order, by the person living them. Most journals fall away because they ask you to write paragraphs you don't have in you, or to fit your life into rows someone else designed. Annal asks for neither. You decide the fields. The entries take seconds. The workspace can stay alone or open up to the few people who deserve to see it.

— the editors
On the page

Two pens on one page.

Invite a partner. Each entry remembers who wrote it. The author is a person; the subject is the relationship, or the marriage, or the friendship you're trying to keep.

Annal is a progressive web app — installable, offline-tolerant, mobile-first. The journal travels with you, in your pocket.

Capture form on a phone: New entry under Relationship state — Person: Wife, tags exhausted and fighting, note 'she went to bed early; barely spoke at dinner'.
Journal view on a phone: a few Relationship state entries with mood tags written by two authors.
The fields editor — Person, Tags, Note — followed by the add-field tile grid: Number, Text, Choice, Tags, Person, Date, List, Yes/No.
By design

The fields are yours.

Numbers, text, choices, tags, dates, people, lists, yes-or-no. Add one, rename it, change its type. The log keeps up — and the entries you've already written keep their shape.

No templates to wedge yourself into. Build the log the way you'd sketch one on the inside cover of a notebook.

Articles of the volume

Why this, and not the other one

  1. I.

    A log you actually want to keep.

    Most trackers force a shape on you and call it a template. Annal lets you decide what each log holds — add a field, rename it, change its type. The log keeps up. The entries you've already written keep their shape.

  2. II.

    A workspace shared, not exposed.

    Bring in a partner, a therapist, a close friend. They see what's in this workspace — and only this one. Workspace isolation is a hard line in the code, not a setting in an admin panel.

  3. III.

    Voice, sheets, and the API you'd expect.

    A Siri shortcut for entries by speech. A sync to a Google Sheet you already share with your nutritionist. An API token if you'd like to write a script of your own. All shipped, none gated.

  4. IV.

    Kept in Europe. Yours to export.

    Annal runs on servers in Falkenstein, Germany. Your entries never leave the EU, and the storage layer is code we own — no third-party SaaS sits between you and the chronicle. Export anytime, in a format you can keep.

Open the first page.

The first entry is the hard one. The hundredth is the one you'll be glad you have.

Begin your annal I already keep one