Getting Started
Onboarding and first-use guidance.
Welcome to Grid Diary!
Grid Diary is a unique journaling app that combines powerful diary functionality with guided writing templates. Whether you want to build a gratitude habit, track your progress, or simply record your life, Grid Diary helps you get started and stay consistent.
The Design Philosophy
Grid Diary is built on a structured framework designed to help you organize your life and track your long-term growth. The system operates on a simple, elegant hierarchy:
- Grids: The atomic writing unit of Grid Diary. Each grid represents a specific question or prompt.
- Templates: The container and structural layout for grids. Templates group multiple grids together, adding a layer of organized layout over raw reflections.
- Dimensions: The time scales (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly) where templates are placed to track life at different scales.
- Journals: The independent notebooks (e.g., Personal, Work, Travel) that house your entries.
By configuring your atomic Grids, arranging them into structured Templates, placing them in different time Dimensions, and organizing them in Journals, you form a complete, continuously evolving, and deeply personalized journaling ecosystem.
Key Features
Guided Writing
Break through writer's block with atomic, prompt-based grids tailored to your daily reflection goals.
Multi-Scale Reflection
Zoom out from daily logs to weekly reviews, monthly checks, and yearly resolutions to track compounding growth.
Local-First & Private
Your journal belongs to you. Your data is stored locally first, completely functional offline, and end-to-end encrypted.
Compartmentalized Journals
Keep your life organized by maintaining unlimited, separate journals for personal thoughts, work, travel, and more.