Leave it empty if this one’s just for sitting with. If you add one, Brainlore will ask how it went tomorrow.
How do you feel now? OptionalClaude reads this entry and writes back a few sentences: what it hears, one thing it notices, one question.
Naming it is part of the work.
Pick up to three words that fit. Precise beats positive.
Get three ways in, shaped by your check-in. Pick one, or ignore them all and write.
Your pack is saved on this device: three prompts for each day, plus questions for when you get stuck. Claude features that need a connection (reflections) will wait and run when you’re back.
If writing about something is making you feel worse rather than lighter, it's fine to stop or change the subject. That's not failing at journaling.
Proof of your week, in your own words: the moments that mattered and the steps you took. Tap a quote to open the entry it came from.
The feelings you've named most often.
Every entry earns XP. Days in a row add a streak bonus, and missing a day only resets the bonus, never your level.
Talk it out asks one question at a time. Writing on your own has the mood check-in, six formats and prompts.
Tome, Protocol and Clean follow your device's light or dark setting. Neon is always night.
Installed, it opens like an app and works with no connection.
What worked, what didn’t, what confused you. Nothing from your journal is attached.
Take a copy of everything, any time. Plain text, newest first, reflections included.
Brainlore is for people who want to journal and freeze at the blank page. The writing is still yours; Claude only gets you started. It offers a way in when you ask for one, asks a question when you're stuck, and reads back what it hears when you've finished. It doesn't grade, fix or advise, and it never writes the entry for you, because the benefit of journaling comes from the writing itself.
Putting a feeling into precise words lowers the intensity of the response to it; that's why the check-in asks for specific words rather than a thumbs up or down. The six formats are the practices with the strongest evidence behind them:
Talk it out can end with one small step, and Brainlore asks how it went the next day. A small, specific step is far more likely to happen than a big intention, and checking back closes the loop. “Not yet” and “let it go” are real answers: nothing is scored, and nothing is taken away.
Nothing goes to Claude until you send it. In Talk it out, each answer you send goes to Claude so it can ask the next question. Sparks send your check-in and, if the box is ticked, short excerpts of your last three entries. “I’m stuck” sends the current draft. “Reflect” sends that one entry. Receipts and offline packs send short excerpts of recent entries. Brainlore is not therapy or medical advice.
Writing helps, and so do people. If what you're carrying feels heavier than a journal can hold, tell someone you trust. In the US you can call or text 988 at any hour.