Morning Pages – Daily Journal

This app is a lifesaver! I used to struggle with racing thoughts and anxiety in the mornings, but Morning Pages has helped me tremendously. The simple act of writing down whatever comes to mind for a few minutes each day has made a huge difference in my mental clarity and overall well-being. What sets this app apart is its incredible analysis feature. It not only tracks your word count to help you reach your daily goal (3 pages for me!), but it also provides a detailed breakdown of your writing. It identifies recurring topics, highlights emotional content (even telling you the percentage of negative words!), and tracks your mood based on the sentiment of your writing. I've gained so much insight into my thoughts and feelings that I wouldn't have noticed otherwise. Plus, it's super private with double password protection, which gives me peace of mind. Highly recommend!

I gave this 'MorningPages' app a shot, as I wanted to start a daily writing routine. This app fit the bill perfectly. It's not doing anything fancy , but that's alright. I like having the daily word goals of my entries, and how the entries are organized in a calendar view. It's also nice how it tracks your writing streaks. It's a simple feature, but keeps the writer encouraged to keep writing, which is the whole point. So in my case, it's been effective. My only criticism is the insights section. I decided to pay for the app to get the added insights, but I don't find them particularly useful or accurate. Though I don't reget paying for the app to support the developers, I do not personally gain any value from the added features you get with the paid version. That said, I do love this app, and plan on continuing my daily writing exercises in 'MorngingPages'.

I love the idea of this app and I will continue to use it, but I do have one major factor that’s keeping me from buying a subscription to premium. After you write your set amount of words for the day, the app “analyzes” your text and determines the main topics and the overall tone. It will label your writing either negative or positive depending on what it finds. I thought that was the coolest idea! Not only is the writing alone part of the app a great concept, but to have statistics as well?! I was sold! Until... I wrote a few entries and it continued to get my overall text wrong. It seems to pick random words as your main topics that you have written, not actual focuses of your text. It then told me my overall mood was negative because 33% of my text was negative? Umm, correct me if I’m wrong but wouldn’t that make 67% positive therefore the majority of it should be labeled a positive entry??? It also gave me the same 33% multiple times like it’s just choosing a statistic rather than any actual algorithm at work, especially not one that is close to accurate. I would recommend this app to people, but only the free version as the subscription is so you can continue getting statistics on your writing. If the creators were able to make this app actually analyze the writing somewhat correctly I would definitely pay for a subscription, but not in the meantime.