journal app for android

shizumu is a journal app for android that never asks where to file it. you open it with a thought and write. nothing to structure first, nowhere to put it.

install it

an apk from the download section, signed with our key. play store next. the same app on linux and windows, so the page you start on the phone is the page you finish at the desk.

a journal app for android free of the things that get in the way

no account to make. no ads, and nothing that profiles you: the app does not know who you are. the writing is a database on your phone, and it goes nowhere unless you turn sync on. people searching for the best free note taking app for android without ads usually mean this, and it holds here without a catch.

what a page does

every day starts on an empty page. you write to think. when something turns out to matter, you pin it. when a thread continues past today, you put the page on a trail, and the pins you kept there come back onto the page the next time you open it. everything else stays in memory, searchable. a private journal app for android is the smallest way to say it; the pins and trails are why it is worth opening tomorrow.

morning pages, on the phone

three pages before the day starts is the practice a morning pages app android users ask about, and the empty page is built for it: no prompt, no count, nothing to fill in. write, close it, and it stays in memory. the longer version: a morning pages app.

the best journaling app for android is the one you open

shizumu asks nothing on the way in, and that is most of why it gets opened. the writing is the thinking, and the app stays out of it.

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