questions, answered.

what is this, really?

A quiet diary. One sentence a day, or one entry, or both. Private by default. No AI writing for you. No streaks, no scoreboards, no ads, no tracking. You write, the day closes, you come back tomorrow. That’s the whole thing.

do I need to write every day?

No. The diary waits. There are no streaks to break, no guilt for missing a day. Real diaries have empty pages. So does this one.

what’s the difference between an “entry” and a “line”?

An entry is your day in your own words, up to 2000 words. Pick a feeling, write what stayed with you, publish or keep private.

A line is one short sentence, 120 characters or less. Quicker to write. Easier to share.

You can write both on the same day, or just one, or neither.

what is a “room”?

A room is the feeling of your day: tender, bright, quiet, anxious, sad, angry. You pick one when you write. The diary themes itself around it. In the feed, others’ writing groups by room too, so you can find people who felt today the way you did.

I forgot my password.

On the sign-in page, click forgot password. We’ll email you a reset link. Open it in the same browser you used to request it.

I signed up with Google. forgot password isn’t sending me anything.

That’s expected. Google accounts don’t have a password to reset. Sign in with the same Continue with Google button you used to sign up. If you want a password on this account too, you can add one in settings once you’re signed in.

“Continue with Google” isn’t working.

Chrome and some other browsers silently block Google sign-in if you ever dismissed the Google popup before. The button looks dead, but it isn’t broken. Here’s how to fix it:

1. Click the icon on the left of your address bar (padlock or sliders).
2. Open site settings.
3. Find third-party sign-in and set it to allow.
4. Reload the page, try Google again.

Or use the popup sign-in fallback we show when this happens. It works even when third-party sign-in is blocked.

I have two accounts somehow. Can you merge them?

Yes. Write to uswith both account details and which one to keep. We’ll merge them, preserving every entry. (Going forward, we now match accounts by your email’s canonical form, so this shouldn’t happen again.)

can I sign up with email and also use Google later?

Yes. If you click continue with Google with a Gmail address that already has a password account here, we link them automatically. Same diary, two ways in.

can I change my pseudonym?

Yes, in settings. Past published lines stay attributed to the name they were published under, but everything new uses the new one.

can I edit what I already wrote?

Today’s entry stays open all day. Edit it as many times as you like, published or private, right up until the day rolls over (5am your local time). Once it rolls, that day seals and becomes part of the record, and a fresh blank page opens for the new day.

when does the day roll over?

5am in your local timezone. Anything written before then counts as the previous day. Late-night writing belongs to the night it came from.

can I backdate an entry?

No. Writeyourday is the diary of today, not the past. If you missed a day, that day stays empty. That’s part of what makes it real.

does AI write for me, or edit my writing?

Never.No autocomplete, no suggestions, no “improve this sentence” buttons. Your words are your words. This is the first principle.

who can see what I write?

Only you, unless you publish. Private writing stays in your diary, accessible only by your account. No team member at writeyourday reads your private entries.

what does “publish” actually do?

It places your line or letter in the feed, where strangers (people who don’t know your real name) can read it. They see your pseudonym, not your account or email. You can’t be searched by real name, because we don’t store one.

can I unpublish something?

Yes. From your diary, you can move a published piece back to private at any time. But anything that was already read or saved by someone else is out of your control. Once a stranger has read it, it lives in their memory.

how do I delete everything?

Settings → delete my words forever. You’ll be asked to type a confirmation phrase. Once you do, your entries, lines, and account are erased from our systems within 30 days, including backups. We can’t recover them after that, and we won’t try to.

when does the evening email come?

Around 8pm your local time, on days you haven’t written yet. If you’ve already written today, we don’t email you. The point is the reminder, not the noise.

I’m getting too many emails. How do I turn them off?

Settings → manage notifications. Turn off the evening dispatch, the weekly pulse, or both. Account-related emails (verification, password resets) always send, because you’d be locked out otherwise.

why didn’t I get my email today?

Three usual reasons: you already wrote today, you turned the email off, or we held off because we sent you something else recently. We try not to overflow the inbox. If you’re sure none of these apply, tell us.

do you train AI on my writing?

No. Never have. Never will.Your writing is yours. We don’t sell, share, or feed it to any model. This is non-negotiable.

do you sell my data, or run ads?

No, and no. We don’t have advertisers. We don’t run ads, ever. No third-party trackers, no analytics scripts that build profiles of you. The product makes money from people who want it to exist, not from people watching you use it.

where is my writing stored?

On managed cloud servers in Asia, encrypted at rest. Backups are encrypted too. The connection between your browser and our servers is HTTPS only.

what happens if writeyourday shuts down?

If we ever wind down, we owe you a clean exit. You’ll get at least 30 days notice, a downloadable archive of everything you wrote in plain text, and the time to take it elsewhere before anything is deleted. This is a commitment, not a hope.