AI is not in Jernling

In July 2023, I deleted a Jernling app one day with my phone and laptop. This was probably the best thing I have done as a lifelong dishist.

Apple announced his Journal app in WWDC that year. In that keynote speaker, Apple said that it will use “on-device machine learning” to provide signals based on material in your iPhone-things like contacts, photos, music, workouts, podcasts and location data. The idea gave me ick. Mainly because the app was described as a refuge at the convenience of memories in the photo app, which was “wisely” at that time, which resumed a picture of my mother’s open coffin.

I had a flashback in the moment last week when I saw a demo on Google’s new magazine Application. Except for Google’s Journal app, AI is harder than the version of Apple. In addition to the AI-Interested Jernling Prompt, on-device AI will also provide a summary of your entries. There is also a small calendar scene that shows your mood based on whatever was done on that day.

In my demo, Google told me that this idea was to jerry Easy – In such a way that Gemini simplifies other writing works, such as email and document summary. Sometimes, I was told, it can be difficult to know what you should journalists about. It can also be difficult to look back. In this example, Gemini was to make life a little more convenient and helpful.

This is good, except jernling is not considered easy or convenient.

Ask any writer: Wrestling is done with a vacant page. And in Jernling, whatever signs you ever need is “what happened today and how should I feel about it?”

This is a misleading simple question. A few days, it is clearly clear what you should write about. A great tragedy, a joyful opportunity, an event that you are looking forward – anything that reveals a strong feeling is a clear sign. But most of the days pass without doing a lot of days, which forces you to throw you through Mundan Minutia to find anything worth recording. that’s the point. Honoring your conscience, exercising your brain, erasing your vocabulary to find your vocabulary to express your inner world. These are not things that are considered easy.

The book has a quotation Four thousand weeks: time management for mortal It is sung for me. “This is not really an idea that matters, but effort – what to say, discomfort. When you make the process more convenient, you tell it about its meaning.”

I do not always agree with author Oliver Berkman. I have no meaning in working hard on hand washing dishes, and I am always grateful to the inventor of the dishwasher. But as it is related to the never -ending discovery of Big Tech to simplify writing with AI, I fully agree that Conflict Does anything make the process worth anything.

This reminds me of Google’s very much Gemini advertisement in which a father uses AI to write Excellent The Olympian Sydney McLaglin-Learon ends with a fan letter and heart-free milk-slop. There too, Google had forgotten that the attempt to write a letter, to keep themselves out, is the one that makes the fan letters authentic and meaningful.

I have found that it pays to make Jernling “uncomfortable”. When I deleted the first day, I returned to writing in a physical magazine, and it dramatically improved my mental health, important thinking, time management and memory. various studies It has shown that memory is better for retention and learning than typing. There is a lot Because This is inconvenient. When writing with a pen, your hand faster cramps, it is difficult to erase ink, and in my case, my brain thinks that my hand can move faster than in my hand. Those boundaries force me to prioritize whether the information needs to be recorded and sit more intentionally with my thoughts. This means that when I want to see back, I have to remember When? Things happened properly because there is no search bar. Except for accessibility reasons (in the situation, voice recorders can be a good option), I argue that anyone interested in jernling should go analog.

Going analog also confirms confidentiality to you. Jernling is often not about small things in life. (Although no one is preventing you from writing an Ode for a bubble tea that changes the life that you had with lunch.) Many people to struggle with great feelings. Breakup, deaths, concerns, ennui, and practice of finding happiness in a life that is finite, cruel and unfair. These are personal things that are not for anyone’s eyes except the author. It does not matter that Google says that the journal app is completely on-device, locked and removable-nothing related to internet is really.

An AI summary with relevant takeaairs of your journal entries is also fundamentally flawed. You supposed To flip through the entries, flow through the scattered sentences for the nuggets of the meaning. You are going to remember the person you were once and consider who you are now. It is like finding a message in a bottle, or finding $ 20 bill in an old coat pocket. I suspect that I can realize the same by reading the AI ​​summary of a journal entry.

While writing this, I kept thinking back in the summer of 2009. After my first real heart broke, I filled an entire paper journal with tear-pagas, smear ink, and. Bad Kavita will not accept even the most emo tumbller girl. When I could not sleep or eat, I would explode Edel’s album 21 And write to every bit of self-doubt, hatred, rejection, longing, anger, betrayal, and sorrow that not all love can live forever.

Six months after filling that entire book, I sat down to read each page. This was the definition of Cringe, but the hour process finally saw me how I would lose myself in a relationship that had run my course. This helped me to forgive and move forward. When I was, I burnt the book with an old cigarette lighter on the roof of my bright new apartment. Seeing the pages, it became orange, then I never found it free in my youth life. Removing the AI ​​Journal app will never feel quite as Cathartic.