Is journaling just hard, or did I find the wrong users?

A few weeks into beta and I have one actively journaling user out of five who signed up.

I'm not embarrassed to say that. It's the reality, and pretending otherwise helps no one.

What I can't figure out is whether journaling is genuinely hard to make a habit, or whether my beta users were mostly friends and family doing me a favour. Probably both. But that distinction matters a lot for what I do next.

WorkBuddy is a work journal for people who work alone. Five prompts at the end of your day, and every Sunday night an AI summary of your week, patterns you missed, what drained you, what moved the needle. The idea came from my own frustration of ending busy days with no sense of whether any of it actually mattered.

The problem felt real to me. Still does. But I'm starting to wonder if the people who feel it strongly enough to actually do something about it are harder to find than I assumed.

So I have one honest question for anyone who works solo:

Do you reflect on your work at all? Not a task list, not time tracking. Actually stepping back and asking whether you spent your week on the right things. And if you don't, is it because you don't see the value, or because you just never get around to it?

Brutal honesty welcome.