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For The Sleepless

A journal for the year nobody remembers clearly.

Four sentences at 3 a.m. still count.

Buy Once · $24

The first year with a baby is famously the most photographed and least remembered time of a parent's life. Ten thousand pictures, and the texture gone — what the nights actually felt like, what you were afraid of, what was funnier than anyone warned you. Sleep debt eats the memories as fast as they form.

A journal catches some of it, if it's frictionless enough to use one-handed at 3 a.m. and private enough for the whole truth. Because the whole truth of new parenthood includes sentences that don't go on the family feed: the boredom inside the love, the marriage under pressure, the person you were making noises from another room. Written honestly, it's the record your child might someday treasure and the pressure valve you need now. Written for an audience, it's just more content.

The Sealed Journal is built for the honest version: opens fast, saves as you type, works offline during night feeds, and encrypts everything with a passphrase only you know. Four sentences count. So does one.

The Typewriter Experience

The cursor stays. The text moves.

In Write mode, your cursor remains exactly at the centre of the screen. The page rises up to meet it. Past words fade into soft shadow at the edges, leaving the present sentence in clear focus. Switch to Read mode and the entry flattens into an evenly lit document — the fade is for writing; the flat light is for returning.

Radical Privacy & Encryption

AES-256-GCM, in your browser, with a key only you derive.

  • ·PBKDF2 key derivation at 600,000 iterations — the OWASP 2024 recommendation. Existing journals upgrade transparently on first unlock.
  • ·No accounts, no telemetry, no analytics, no cookies, no third-party scripts.
  • ·IndexedDB storage with a localStorage fallback. Encrypted before it touches the disk.
  • ·The file is not minified. You can read the source. We'd rather you trust it than us.

What It Does Not Do

  • ✕No word counts chasing you across the screen.
  • ✕No formatting toolbar wrestling your thoughts into neatness.
  • ✕No cloud sync. No distant servers. Your words stay yours.
  • ✕No social sharing. Your vulnerability is not content.
  • ✕No AI assistant finishing your sentences.
  • ✕No streak counters. No guilt. No gamification.
  • ✕No subscriptions. No mood trackers. No noise.

Licensing & Gift Copy

One purchase covers up to three of your personal devices. It also includes a second untouched copy of the file — meant to be given to one person you trust. Lifetime updates. 30-day, no-questions refund. If you run a clinic, school, or workplace and want a copy for everyone, ask us about a site licence.

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Questions

I'm too exhausted to journal.

Then don't “journal” — write one line when something happens you'd hate to lose. The gaps are part of the record of this year, too.

Is this a baby-tracking app?

No feeds, naps, or charts — plenty of apps do that. This is for you: the parent's interior record, which no tracker captures.

Could I share it with my child someday?

If you choose — a deliberate export is yours to give, on your terms, decades from now. Until then it's sealed, which is exactly what makes the honest version writable.

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