Mindsera Featured in The Guardian
Journalist Anita Chaudhuri spent two months with Mindsera AI journal and wrote about her experience in The Guardian. She logged over 123 entries and 62,700 words and explored what happens when your journal reflects back.
"It feels as if I've made a new best friend" — Anita Chaudhuri, The Guardian
The article captures something we hear from users every day. Within just a couple of days, Chaudhuri was hooked. Within a week, she had doubled her journaling output. She described the experience of feeling "witnessed and understood" and found herself journaling on her commute and at the end of the day, not just in the mornings.
Meditation on paper
During a stressful period, she found that it wasn't just the ritual of writing that helped, but the instant, attentive feedback: "On days when I'm feeling stressed, hangry or veering into existential crisis, I'm surprised to find comfort in the on-tap digital encouragement. Sometimes I feel that only the robot really understands me."
When friends and family had "glazed over," Mindsera stayed attentive and interested. As she put it: "The interaction gives me a boost. It feels as if I've made a new best friend who hasn't yet got bored with my obsessions and wildly optimistic plans."
Therapists recommend it for emotional intelligence
Therapists are recommending Mindsera to clients between sessions. Mindsera Emotion Analysis helps users build emotional intelligence and understand the deeper emotions behind their thoughts and the connections between thoughts and emotions.
Using research by psychologist Robert Plutchik, it detects emotions based on words and phrases in each entry. The percentages reflect how much of a given emotion is present in your text. Over time, this helps you notice emotional patterns across entries and build emotional intelligence, surfacing feelings you might have missed.
It's one of our most loved features:
"This app goes beyond daily reflections and dives deep into your emotional patterns. If you want to connect the dots between your feelings and behaviors, this is your app (it's the one I'm using)." — Michael Hyatt, NYT Bestselling Author
"The analysis also provides insight into your emotions, breaking them down by emotion and by percentage. This reveals not just your emotions, but awareness of it which has brought me a heightened sense of understanding and acceptance. I've noticed that since using Mindsera, I have become more solution oriented rather than reactive." — Vivian, United Kingdom
"Mindsera is my AI journal of choice and their new release integrates Plutchik's emotions framework and I couldn't be more stoked to see this application of AI analysis to my entries." — Cam, United States
Read more user reviews here.
Long-term memory
Since Anita's experiment, we've completely rebuilt Mindsera's memory architecture from the ground up, which we believe is now one of the best memory experiences not only in the AI journal space but across AI tools in general.
Mindsera now has four levels of memory (immediate for what's happening right now, short-term for recent relevant things, medium-term for relevant facts, and long-term for across your whole journal). Mindsera updates this list automatically and you will have the option to correct anything Mindsera gets wrong. Just like humans, AI systems can make mistakes.
Go Deeper, Minds, and Insights all benefit from this update. Your journal now genuinely grows with you.
We're rolling out the new memory throughout this week.
Writing is thinking. And the best thinking happens when someone is paying attention. We're grateful to The Guardian for taking Mindsera seriously enough to spend two months inside it.
Read the full article here.
