Noonsight: a journal that gives your words back

2026 · Ongoing. I'm building a journal app for my own iPhone. I wrote the first line of code a week ago, and I write in it every day now.

What it is. Noonsight holds a journal, a life log and, later, my quantified-self numbers. You write, and it files the photo and the place with your words. It runs without a signal, and it stores your entry as you typed it, down to the byte.

Why I'm building it. I've written years of journals and read back little of it. The apps I've tried put their design into getting words in. I want reading back to earn its time, through a trip report or a weekly digest. I also want a writing screen calm enough that I open it without needing a reason.

What I'm holding to.

• Your words stay yours. Anything a machine adds lives in its own space, apart from what you wrote.
• You can leave. Entries export as plain text files and/or JSON.
• Each journal sets its own privacy. The most private ones stay on your phone.
• You decide what AI reads. Later, an assistant can read the entries you allow and no others.

Status. I use it every day for writing, photos and places, online or off. Next I'm building export and a weekly digest. Health stats and habits come after that.

What it's revealing so far. The things I want to log happen away from the screen: a walk, a meal, a conversation. So I keep cutting the time I spend on the phone down to a photo, a place and one line before I'm back in the day. Read-back pulls the other way, off the screen and into my hands. The version I most want to try is a trip typeset into a printed book I can pass across a table.