How Private Is Your Digital Journal, Really?

A fair question to ask before you write anything personal

A journal is one of the few places people write things they wouldn't say out loud. Before trusting an app with that, it's reasonable to want a straight answer about who can actually see it, not a vague line buried in a privacy policy.

The direct answer for PlanJour

Your journal entries, mood logs, gratitude lists and free-write thoughts are private to your account. They are never shared with any other PlanJour user, ever, unless a specific feature is designed to do so, and none currently are. Even PlanJour's own calendar sharing features, whether per-event or whole-calendar, are scoped strictly to calendar events. Sharing your calendar with someone, at any level, never exposes a single journal entry.

What that means in practice

If you share your whole calendar view-only with a partner or family member, they see your events: what's scheduled, when, and where. They do not see your journal page for that day, your mood, or anything you wrote. The two are built as genuinely separate trust boundaries, not just separate tabs in the same interface.

Why this matters more than it might seem

A lot of combined calendar-and-journal tools blur this line without meaning to, treating 'my data' as one bucket once you turn on any kind of sharing. PlanJour was deliberately built so that turning on calendar visibility for someone never quietly drags your private reflections along with it.

Your data, exportable on your terms

You can export your own journal entries (PDF, or structured formats) at any point, so your private writing isn't only ever accessible from inside the app. That's a safeguard for you, not for anyone you might share a calendar with.

If privacy has been the thing holding you back from journaling honestly, it's worth actually reading how a tool handles it before trusting it with your evenings. PlanJour's answer is short: your journal is yours. Start free and write the first honest page.