Your journals
Your journals start here
three easy steps
- Name the journals with New journal, one for each notebook.
- Scan the pages of a journal in order, in the Scan section.
- Read them side by side here, or see everything in date order in Timeline.
Journal
Drag pages to put them in the right order. Tick pages to delete them, straighten or turn them, or move them to another journal.
Timeline
Every page of every journal in date order. Undated pages sit between the dated pages around them.
Scan pages
step 1
Which journal are these pages from?
step 2
Add the pages, in order
Photos are added in the order of their file names (IMG_0001, IMG_0002…), which is the order they were taken.
step 3
Claude types them up
Adjust the page
The whole photo is kept in its original colours, so no writing is cut off. Sideways and upside-down pages are turned so the writing reads from top to bottom. Use Turn if one still looks wrong.
Page
Delete this page for good? This can't be undone.
Settings & help
reads the handwriting
Claude reader setup
The key stays on this device. Pages go straight from here to Anthropic to be read, and nowhere else.
for the book
Your pages
keep it safe
Backup
Pages are kept only on this device. Save a backup now and then, and keep it somewhere safe such as iCloud Drive, Google Drive or email. A backup also moves everything to another device, for example from a phone to the Mac.
step by step
How to use it
- Journals. Make one journal for each notebook with New journal, and give each its own colour.
- Scan. In Scan, pick the journal, then take photos or choose them, from the first page to the last. Claude types each page up and finds its date.
- Read. Open a journal to turn through the pages side by side. Use the arrow keys, swipe, or drag the slider at the bottom to jump to a year.
- Dates. Pages without a date are shown as between the dated pages around them, so everything stays in order. Add or fix a date by opening the page with Details.
- Arrange. In a journal, Arrange lets you drag pages into the right order or move them to another journal.
- Timeline. Shows every journal together in date order. Tap the journal names at the top to show or hide them.
- For the book. Tap the star on any page to save it for the book. Search, PDFs and text exports can use just those pages.
Keyboard on the Mac: ← and → turn pages, Home and End jump to the first and last page, T shows the typed text.