Features

Knoself is designed from the ground up to minimize the time you spend lingering on your phone or engaging in complicated operations. There are no complex mechanics requiring deep learning here, only the purest abstracts of essential functions.

🖌 Basic Recording Operations

How to Start a Record?

Tap the ”+” button at the bottom of the main interface (or if you are currently tracking an activity, simply tap the dynamic countdown timer on the home screen) to quickly create or enter the activity editing center.

Add a description: Briefly write down what you are doing, such as “Reading,” “Working,” or simply “Spacing out.”
Attach thoughts: You can drop your current emotions or thoughts into the notes section, turning it into a micro-journal entry.
Insert an image: If pure text feels a bit thin, just snap a picture or choose an image to visually freeze that exact moment.

How to End a Record?

When you complete an activity or wish to switch to the next state, just tap the Stop button within the app. The action you just saved will generate an independent time block, resting quietly like a card in your history stream.

🏷 Tags and Category Management

To facilitate future recollection, searching, and holistic perception, we can attach lightweight tags to every span of time.

Preset tags: The system has built-in high-frequency basic categories—just tap to assign them.
Custom tags: You can create new tags with your own personalized touch and emojis (e.g., “☕️ Coffee Time” or ”🏃 Morning Run”) at any time. With emojis, they will look incredibly intuitive and visually pleasing in your data charts.

📊 Data Views and Statistical Maps

Sometimes we need to look back on a past journey to see where we fed our precious energy and time.

Timeline macro-view: View the exact proportions of various tags and activities intuitively in pie charts and bar charts, categorized by daily, weekly, or monthly granularity.
Seamless Health Data Integration: If you enable “Read Health” permissions in your system settings, Knoself will automatically fetch your sleep data from Apple Health in the background and seamlessly stitch it into your daily timeline and charts! This spares you the immense hassle of forcing yourself to open the app and manually start a timer every night before falling asleep and upon waking up.

🔒 Privacy and Data Retention

Because what you write concerns your intimate details and most private emotions, we exercise the highest level of restraint and protection regarding data security.

Pure local storage: By default and without requiring any login, all your text and image records are exclusively stored within your iPhone/iPad’s local sandbox. Absolutely no one—not us as developers nor any third-party organizations—can access your journals.
Secure iCloud Sync: If you own multiple Apple devices and wish to back up your data to prevent loss, simply toggle on iCloud Sync in the app settings. All archived data will be encrypted and transmitted through Apple’s official channels to your own private cloud.
Free CSV Export: Prefer to take your data for complex Excel analysis, or want to keep your own archive independently of the software? Tap “Export Data” in settings to generate the universal .csv report format, which you can permanently share with yourself.