Daykept v0.5: Voice Journal — record audio notes inside any story
Record audio notes inside any story. Writing and speaking are different kinds of thinking — Daykept now supports both.
There are moments when typing is the wrong tool. You are driving and have a thought you want to capture. You have just woken up and your hands are not ready to type. You are in the middle of something emotional and words come faster spoken than written. Voice Journal, added in v0.5, covers all of these.
Audio inside your stories
Voice recordings are not a separate screen or a different kind of entry. They live directly inside stories, alongside your written text. You can have a paragraph of writing, then a voice recording, then more writing — all in the same timeline entry. Audio is treated as first-class content.
To record, tap the microphone icon in the editor toolbar. A waveform visualizer appears while recording so you know the microphone is picking up your voice. Tap stop when you are done. The recording appears inline in your story immediately.
Privacy: same as everything else
Voice recordings are stored locally on your device using the same encrypted storage as your written entries. They are included in your Google Drive backup if you have that enabled. They never go to any third-party server.
Searchable
In the Search screen, you can filter by asset type — including voice recordings. This means you can find all entries that contain audio notes, even if you do not remember what you wrote around them.
How it started
Voice Journal started as a weekend experiment. The question was simple: can audio feel natural inside a journaling app, or does it always feel like an afterthought? After building and using it for a few weeks, the answer turned out to be yes — if the audio sits inside the story rather than in a separate tab or screen.
Writing and speaking are genuinely different kinds of thinking. Sometimes you process something better by speaking it aloud. Now you can do both in the same place.