Introduction
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In this Friday’s issue, I have a calm little journaling app with AI integration. It’s easy to use, heavily customizable, and a perfect way to release your emotions when everything seems to be pressing down on you at the moment. Let’s see what it is 👇.
Joul
🧠 What Is It?
It’s Joul, not Juul 💀 (the opposite of productivity and health). This app is a fun journaling app but with an AI twist to it. Every journal entry you make gets sent to Joul, your friend/mentor/coach/therapist friend living in the app. You get responses that are customized to your liking for all your 2:00 AM brain dumps.
Basic journaling app with an AI friend.
Customize the personality of Joul to what you want.
Search for any of your past entries with a search tool.
Joul is the cleanest way to get writing motivation, reflect, and grow. And it just takes minutes to do so. Watch yourself release all those bottled-up emotions and worries with an AI companion that will understand you the way you want it to.
⚙ How Do You Use It?
Unlike some apps, you won’t get any anxiety from just trying to set up the app itself. I mean, that’ll kinda ruin the point of it 💀. The process is quick, easy, and will leave you wondering why you haven’t used it before.
Download Joul (for iOS only — sorry, Android friends).
Set up the personality of Joul.
Choose from the type of relationship you want, the humor level for responses, vocab level 🤓, and more.
Start journaling. Let Joul describe your mood when even you don’t know. And watch it respond the way just in the voice you want it to.
That’s literally all there is. Simple, but effective. Watch yourself go from stressed out to spilling your troubles for the entire week to Joul.
🧹 What Does it Replace?
Joul will make sure it cares about you, which is a lot more than what some other alternatives can do 💀.
Using ChatGPT as a therapist (Wrong. Tone. Every. Time.).
Telling everything to that one friend (they’ll say “that’s crazy” 50 times, then change the subject).
Using a basic journaling app (c’mon, you don’t want a little friend helping you out?).
Joul does good to be an easy solution for a growing problem, especially for students. If life all of a sudden feels like it’s starting to get heavier and heavier too fast, just write about your day and let Joul help you out. Worrying less about all the other stuff means more time to do work (productivity 😉).
🤫 Tulio’s Tips
The 2-minute Movement Rule: Feeling stuck or sluggish? Every time you feel like doing nothing, stand up and move for 2 minutes. Walk, stretch, maybe put on a song and dance. It’s often enough to reboot your energy.
Don’t Multitask - Context Switch Instead: Working on one thing can fry your brain. Instead of juggling tasks at once, switch to a different task every 30-60 minutes (mental → physical, screen → no screen). Stay fresh without spiraling.
Make “Focus Entry Points.”: Struggling to get started? Leave your next task half-finished on purpose. That way, when you come back later, you don’t start from scratch — you’re already mid-flow.
📆 Weekday Challenge
📕 No-Filter Journal Weekend
This weekend, spend just 3-5 minutes a day writing exactly what’s on your mind.
No structure. No productivity pressure.
Just mental upload mode.
🤣 Tulio Timeout
That’s all for now. Hope you read this,
Tulio.