a writing and journal app for windows

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

a writing app for windows, not only a diary

people looking for a writing app for windows usually want somewhere to think in full sentences without setting anything up first. the page has real blocks for tables, outlines and code, so a draft, a plan and a journal entry all start the same way, on an empty page.

install it

one installer from the download section, signed with our key. the same app on linux and android, so a journal app for laptop and phone can be one journal.

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, a book, a job search, a project, 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.

it is keyboard driven: / for a table, a chart, an outline, a block of code. @ to reach a page, a pin, or a trail. ctrl+k for the trail index. ctrl+p to pin from the cursor. ctrl+f to find.

a journal app for pc that keeps the writing on the pc

the writing is a database on your disk. no account, no upload. if you want it on a second device, sync is end-to-end encrypted, and you can run the relay yourself. the source is on github, apache-2.0 on the client and agpl-3.0-or-later on the relay, so what it does with your writing is something you can read.

the best journaling app for windows is the one that stays out of the way

shizumu asks nothing on the way in. the writing is the thinking, and the app stays out of it.

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