# A journal you keep by replying to an email

Each evening an email arrives: how did your day go? You reply the way you would to a friend, and that reply becomes the day's page. There is no app to open and nothing to remember.

This page says how each part works.

## The evening email

ohmylife emails you on the days and at the hour you choose. The email asks one question and says how to answer it.

The emails are part of the service, not advertising. Each one has a link that stops them for that journal.

## Your reply becomes the day's page

Two sentences is plenty. Whatever you write back is kept as that day, and a photo you attach is kept with it.

A reply is taken only when it is proven to be yours. One sent from another address than the one you sign in with, or one your mail provider did not prove came from you, is not put in your journal. It is kept apart for you alone to add or discard.

## A journal on the web as well

You can also write on the web: write or change any day, mark how it felt, and tag a day with a word to find it again.

Write a day by email in the evening and add to it on the web the next morning: the day keeps its earlier versions, each showing when it was written, how, and whether you or your assistant wrote it. Any earlier version can be brought back.

Keep a second journal for something you write now and then, such as letters to a child. Each has its own days, and its own email on the days and at the hour you choose.

## Years later, the day returns

Turn it on, and each email carries something you wrote on an earlier day: one from the same date in an earlier year, or failing that an older one picked at random. Writing today gives you back a piece of your past.

It is off unless you turn it on, because those words then travel by email and stay in your inbox.

## Yours to keep, and yours to take

- Download the whole journal whenever you like, photos and all, as plain files any computer can open.
- Once a year a copy arrives by email without your asking.
- If ohmylife ever closes, you will be told well beforehand and sent your journal first.
- Delete one journal or your whole account from Settings. Nothing is removed for seven days, in case you change your mind. Then all of it goes.

[The privacy page](/privacy/) says exactly what happens to what you write.

## What it costs

ohmylife is free: nothing is charged, and no card is asked for. [The pricing page](/pricing/) lists what is included.

## Questions people ask

### Do I have to install an app?

No. An email arrives and you reply to it. There is no app to open, and there is a journal on the web when you want one.

### Is ohmylife free?

Yes. Nothing is charged, and no card is asked for. [The pricing page](/pricing/) lists what is included.

### Can I write without the email?

Yes. There is a journal on the web as well, where you can write or change any day.

### Can I add photos?

Yes. Attach a photo to your reply, or add it to a day on the web: up to ten a day, 10 MB each, 1 GB in all.

### Can I stop the emails?

Yes. Each email has a link that stops them for that journal, and you choose the days and the hour they come.

### Who can read my journal?

You. ohmylife is not end-to-end encrypted, because the service has to open the text to send you a day from years ago and to take your reply by email. What we promise instead is that we do not read it. There are no ads, nothing is sold, and no AI is trained on what you write. [The privacy page](/privacy/) says exactly what we can and cannot promise.

### Can I get everything out again?

Yes. Download the whole journal whenever you like, as a folder of plain text files with your photos beside the days they belong to. Once a year the same download is emailed to you.

### What happens to my journal if ohmylife closes?

You will be told well beforehand and sent your journal first.

### Can my AI assistant use it?

Yes, if you connect one. It can read your journal and write in it when you ask, within what you allow. See [AI assistants](/ai-assistants/).

Last changed 13 November 2026.

[Start your journal](/app/). Sign in with Google and write your first day tonight.

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Contact: hello@ohmylife.app