Apple's New 'Journal' App Taps Into Personal Data to Encourage Journaling Over a Lifetime
• Apple introduced a new "Journal" app that provides prompts to encourage personal journaling, utilizing data from one's phone to create "meaningful suggestions" • The author has kept consistent journals since childhood, having received her first diary at age 9 • The author's dozens of old handwritten journals contain details on her life, feelings, dreams, worries, etc. over the past 30+ years • Rereading her old diaries helps the author connect with her past and present selves and see how she's changed and stayed the same • The article cuts off as the author's life is about to undergo major changes - her engagement, marriage, and first pregnancy