How it works

How AI journaling with Gary works.

With Gary, you put a moment into words, explore it with one gentle AI question at a time, and keep what matters as memories, topics and notes for therapy. Here’s each step.

1

Put it into words

Start an everyday reflection, or one before or after a therapy session. Type it, or speak and review the text before sending.

  • Three ways to begin: everyday, before therapy, after therapy
  • Optional speech to text, with no audio kept
  • Correct your words any time
Gary’s “A moment to reflect” screen, with three ways to begin: everyday reflection, before therapy and after therapy.
Illustrative: sample data, from the Gary app.
2

Explore a little further

Gary reflects back what you said in your own words and asks one gentle question at a time. It won’t tell you what you feel, and it won’t pretend to be a therapist.

  • Replies stay close to what you actually wrote
  • Clearly labelled as AI
  • You decide when you’re done
A reflection in Gary. You wrote “I keep saying yes, even when I need a little space for myself.” Gary, labelled AI reflection, quotes it back and asks what feels most important about it.
Illustrative: sample data, from the Gary app.
3

Keep what matters

When something you said feels worth holding on to, save it as a memory. Gary may suggest one, using your exact words. You decide whether to keep it.

  • Saved memories shape future reflections, only if you keep them
  • Reflections grouped into topics like work, family and daily life
  • Revisit your library any time
Gary’s saved memories screen with two memories, each marked “Saved by you”, with options to see the original words, edit or delete.
Illustrative: sample data, from the Gary app.
4

Bring it to therapy, if you want

Choose reflections and memories, review the draft, and download a PDF to share with your therapist. Nothing is ever sent for you.

  • Your words, with dates, exactly as written
  • Edit before you create the PDF
  • Link a before and after reflection for the same session
Gary’s PDF notes screen saying “Your PDF is ready”, with a Download PDF button and the reviewed text below.
Illustrative: sample data, from the Gary app.
5

Small routines, your pace

Set one everyday intention and check in on it. Log a mood if that helps. Get a gentle weekly reminder. All optional, all switchable.

  • One everyday goal, in your words
  • Mood entries stay separate and never go to AI
  • A single, neutral weekly reminder. No streaks, no guilt
Gary’s everyday goal screen with the goal “Make a little more room for myself, even on busy days.”
Illustrative: sample data, from the Gary app.

What makes Gary different.

Compared with other AI journaling apps, here’s what we chose to do, and what we chose not to.

  • Built for therapy weeks.Before and after session reflections, linked pairs, and PDF notes you review before sharing.
  • Your exact words.Memories quote what you wrote. Gary doesn’t invent patterns or labels.
  • EU privacy.Made in Poland under the GDPR. Encrypted, stored in the EU, with no staff access and a separate choice for each use.
  • From Pleso Therapy.Made by the team behind an online therapy platform with 500+ therapists.
  • No streaks or guilt.No scores, no countdowns, at most one neutral weekly reminder.
  • Four languages.English, Polish, Ukrainian and Romanian.

What Gary is

  • A private AI journal for reflection
  • A way to notice what keeps coming back
  • A place to keep words for yourself or your therapist

What Gary isn’t

  • Therapy, or an AI therapist
  • Medical advice or a diagnosis
  • An emergency service. Find urgent support

Your privacy, in plain terms.

Reflections can hold sensitive things. Here’s how Gary looks after them.

  • Encrypted when stored. Gary encrypts the reflections, memories and notes it keeps for you.
  • Kept in the EU. Your reflections and their backups are stored in the European Union, under the GDPR.
  • No staff access. Pleso’s staff tools can’t open your reflections.
  • AI replies processed in the EU. If you turn on AI replies, your messages go to our AI provider in the EU, without your name or email.
  • Never sold, never in ads. We don’t sell your data, and what you write never goes to analytics or advertising.
  • Help comes first. If something you write sounds urgent, Gary shows support options straight away. No payment or setting stands in the way.

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