Your AI knows YOU.
Every answer cites the sources you brought. Your journals, your surveys, your context — your AI reasons over them. Not the internet. Not yesterday's headlines. You.
Personal Context Intelligence.Private by Default.Trust is the Moat.
A private, source-grounded AI workspace that reasons over your own notes, journals, and surveys — and cites every claim. Never trained on your data.
AI is the most powerful technology since electricity — and Big Tech is building it on you. Your documents, your searches, your private words are harvested to train their models and mined to target their ads. Every breach spills millions more records onto the open internet. The laws meant to protect you are years behind — and not coming in time.
Journal Genie is the opposite bet. You build a private context layer — your sources, your journals, your thinking — and your AI reasons over it, cites it, and remembers it. It is evergreen: it compounds every time you add to it. It is yours: export the whole thing in one click. And it is never trained on, never sold, never used against you.
Free to try. $12/month to keep. No credit card to sign up.
Private by default. Mathematically.
Row-level isolation. Encrypted at rest and in transit. No model training on your work. No ad-targeting. No data sale. The architecture is the privacy claim.
Export anytime. We earn trust by making leaving easy.
One click. Plain markdown. Everything you wrote, everything you cited, everything you taught your AI. Yours, the day you arrive and the day you leave.
What is Journal Genie?
Journal Genie is a private, source-grounded AI workspace — a NotebookLM alternative that never trains on your data. You bring your own sources, journals, and surveys; the AI reasons over them and cites every claim. Private by default, no ads, no data sale, and exportable in one click. Free to start; $12–$24 a month.
How it works
Four steps. Ten minutes. One AI that knows you.
The smallest commitment we can ask is one source and one question. From there, the personal-context layer compounds every time you write, search, or take a Survey.
- Step 01
Bring your sources.
PDFs, URLs, paste. The notebook attaches them. Your AI indexes them so every answer can cite the page it came from.
- Step 02
Ask a grounded question.
Open the chat. Ask. Every claim in the answer cites the source page it came from. If support is weak, your AI says so — no fake confidence.
- Step 03
Write a journal entry. Take a Survey.
Two minutes of writing. Three minutes of answering. Your AI now has durable context it can reason with — only when you say so.
- Step 04
Your AI catches up. Permanently.
The next time you open Genie mode, your full personal context is on tap. Inspect every excerpt. Export the whole account in plain markdown, one click.
What a session looks like
Every claim cites the source. Every excerpt is inspectable.
No mystery context. The right-hand pane shows the actual passages your AI consulted. If the support is weak, the answer says so — instead of inventing confidence. Tap a citation below to see the excerpt it came from.
Quarterly review · notebook
IllustrationNotebook chat
You
Across the two quarterly reports, which segment grew fastest — and what drove it?
Journal Genie
Cloud infrastructure grew fastest— about 36% year over year. The driver was one enterprise contract renewed across the quarters, not broad new-logo growth. Support for a “broad new demand” reading is weak in these two sources, so I'm flagging it rather than asserting it.
Sources
- Q2-earnings.pdf
- Q3-earnings.pdf
Cited excerpts
[1] Q2-earnings.pdf · p.14
“Cloud Infrastructure revenue grew 36% YoY in Q2, outpacing every other reporting segment.”
[2] Q3-earnings.pdf · p.22
“The Acme Corp renewal accounted for the majority of segment growth; net-new-logo contribution was ~8%.”
Saved to Studio · “Segment growth — Q2–Q3 synthesis”
An illustrative walkthrough. In the product, every citation links to the exact page in the source you uploaded.
Six surfaces. One AI that knows you.
The product is the answer to “how do you know I won't forget my own thinking?”
Notebook
Bring your sources. Ask grounded questions. Every claim cites the page it came from. No black-box AI.
Genie
Your full personal context — notebooks, journals, completed surveys — on demand. Inspect every excerpt.
Journal
Write privately. Your AI reads it tomorrow — only if you say so. Permanent context, not surveillance.
Surveys
Quick Polls and Deep Surveys teach your AI what you actually think. Two minutes; permanent memory.
Studio
Save useful outputs as durable artifacts. Editable. Re-citable. Built for thinking that compounds.
Export
Plain markdown. One click. Same export the day you arrive and the day you leave. Yours, forever.
The closest comparison
Journal Genie vs. NotebookLM
NotebookLM is Google's excellent source-grounded notebook — and the closest thing to Journal Genie's workspace. Source grounding and citations are its category-defining strengths; we don't pretend otherwise. Here's where we deliberately differ: a private journal and surveys that compound your context, an export that lets you leave, and a business model that isn't funded by your attention.
| Capability | Journal Genie | NotebookLM |
|---|---|---|
| Grounded answers that cite the source passage | Yes. Core to the Notebook surface | Yes. The category-defining feature |
| Study tools — flashcards, quizzes, and study guides from your sources | Yes. Source-grounded, with cited answers you can click back to | Yes. A strength — plus audio and video overviews |
| A private journal that compounds your personal context | Yes. Private by default; opt-in to AI per entry | No. Source-only — no journal surface |
| Structured surveys + polls that teach your AI what you think | Yes. Quick Polls and Deep Surveys | No. Not a feature |
| Full-fidelity export of your notebooks, journal, surveys & Studio, in plain markdown | Yes. One click. Part of the trust contract. | No. No built-in one-click markdown export |
| Works without a Google account | Yes. Email sign-up; Google sign-in optional | No. Requires a Google account |
| Funded by you — no ads, no data sale, no training on your work | Yes. Twelve dollars a month. That is the whole model. | Part of Google’s ad-funded ecosystem |
| Per-user database isolation, tested adversarially | Yes. Per-user row-level security, adversarially verified | Not publicly documented |
Comparison reflects publicly available information about NotebookLM as of June 2026. NotebookLM is a Google product; “NotebookLM” is a trademark of Google LLC, used here only for identification and honest comparison. If any row stops being accurate, we update it within 7 days — the same standard we hold our own claims to.
What Big Tech does that we don't
The contrarian frame, with receipts.
We earn the right to be loud about privacy by being specific. Every claim below is currently true, substantiated by a public policy or product behavior you can verify yourself.
Big Tech
Google's Gemini privacy policy permits training on your conversations to improve services and personalize ads.
Journal Genie
We do not train AI on your journals, sources, or chats. Period.
Big Tech
ChatGPT forgets you between sessions. Every conversation starts cold.
Journal Genie
Journal Genie remembers your sources, journals, and surveys — permanently, until you delete them.
Big Tech
Big Tech AI products are funded by ad-targeting, attention capture, or training-data extraction.
Journal Genie
Journal Genie is funded by you. Twelve dollars a month. No ads. No data sale. No surveillance.
Big Tech
Most "AI productivity" tools wrap the same OpenAI API everyone else has — with no personal context layer.
Journal Genie
Personal Context Intelligence is the layer they don't have. Your sources, your journals, your surveys — grounded, citable, exportable.
Proof, not promises
We don't rent logos or stage the quotes. We hand you the receipts.
No "trusted by thousands" theater — just the commitments that define the product. Every line below is something you can verify yourself: in the export, in the citations, and in our open code.
$12
A month — the entire business model
No ads. No data sale. No training on your work. You pay us, so you are the customer — not the product being sold to someone else.
0
Ads, data brokers, surveillance
Funded by subscriptions, not surveillance. What you read and write is never the product, and never up for sale.
1-click
Export of your entire account
Plain markdown, any time. Everything you wrote, everything you cited, everything you taught your AI. We make leaving easy on purpose.
100%
Of grounded claims cite their source
Each claim points to the page it came from. When the support is weak, your AI says so — grounded in your context, never guessing.
What people say
We earn the quote. We don’t manufacture it.
We don't run rented testimonials or stock-photo praise. The proof is the product: grounded answers that cite their sources, a one-click export of everything you own, and privacy enforced by the architecture — not a slogan. Real customer words, with explicit permission, land in this exact slot. Try it, and judge for yourself.
Start free
Free is the whole product — at a lower ceiling.
Not a feature-gated trial. The Free plan runs the same code path as paid — every surface, real AI credits, full export. The day you sign up, your AI starts knowing you.
- 40 AI credits every month
- 10 source imports every month
- All six surfaces — Notebook to Export
- One-click, full-account markdown export
- Up to 3 notebooks · 20 stored sources
- No credit card. No ads. No data sale.
Outgrow it and Pro is $12/month, Premium $24 — annual billing is ~20% less. Cancel anytime, end-of-period. No retention dark patterns.
Our promises
Five lines we will never cross.
- We never train AI on your journals, sources, or chats. Not now, not later, not for "service improvement."
- We never sell your data or run ads against what you read and write. You are the customer, not the inventory.
- We never lock your work in. Export the whole account in plain markdown, in one click, any time you like.
- We never bury pricing or hide the cancel button. $12 or $24 a month, cancel end-of-period, no dark patterns.
- We never ship a claim we can't back. Every contrarian line on this page is verifiable in our public code.
No ads, ever. No data sale, ever. No training on your work, ever. That is the entire business model.
Start the way we want to be judged
Bring one source. Ask one question. Decide if your AI should know you better.
That's the smallest commitment we can ask. If grounded answers from your own sources beat a chat that forgets you tomorrow, the rest of the product follows naturally. If not, export everything and walk away. We mean that.