Starting on a new Jerney
by Ameer AyoubThe first of many puns. I'm making Jern because I do a lot of journaling in many different forms.
- "Trauma" or "anxiety" based journaling as described in Huberman Lab Nov 20th
- Narrative journaling about big life events, also described in Huberman Lab
- Free form journaling that mostly centers around answering questions to myself or putting down thoughts
- Free form journaling that centers around defining what I want my life to look like
- Idea journaling, to dump down business or other ideas
- Gratitude journaling every day
- Travel journaling which is detailed narrative in nature mostly only when I travel or do something particularly interesting to me
- Weekly win journaling (which is disposable to some degree, it's mostly to get them down)
- Structured journaling/recollection before EMDR
- Project portfolio and notes
I don't remember my dreams, but if I want to invest time into trying to (which is something you can do if I recall) then I would also have a journal for that.
Some of these have protocols associated with them, that could be facilitated by the platform. Some of them it would just be nice to be able to search or summarize them.
I'm doing this because I've also committed to trialing 3 other ideas (to the bare minimum of a landing page to gauge interest) before the end of the year. I've picked this project because it resonates with me a lot. I want to alleviate a fear that I'm missing out on product/founder fit, or if building feels all the same.
My entry point for this project is likely tackling the more structured but helpful journaling protocols like the Anxiety based one as described in Huberman lab, which has a specific protocol that would be helpful to replicate. The other potential is the EMDR journaling.
Most products in the space are either blank canvases, tools designed to make it easier to log things (like 5 minute journal or daily bean), or lately cooperative AI journaling that guides you. I want something that sits in between. It feels more like google docs, but with specific journal protocol templates and some helpers built on.
