Shared journal app
a shared journal for ordinary life.
Most journals are private by design. Most social apps are public by design. A shared journal sits in the gap: you write down your real day, and a small, chosen group of people gets to read it.
free on iPhone and Android · takes about two minutes
hodgepodge keeps the shape of a journal but makes the entry almost effortless. Every day has the same three parts: your tasks (the boring stuff, the hard stuff, the stuff you keep putting off), one photo of your actual day, and a thought (a gratitude, a lesson, a question, whatever surfaced). No blank page staring at you. No word count. Two minutes, most days.
What an entry looks like (illustrative)
The barista remembered my order. Small fame.
oats, again
one photo of the actual day
the shared part is what makes it stick.
A private journal is easy to abandon because nobody notices. A shared one quietly rewards showing up: your person’s Tuesday appears next to yours, you leave a comment about the returns that survived another week, and the whole thing starts to feel less like record-keeping and more like living slightly closer together.
There’s no algorithm deciding what you see, no streaks to protect, no points. Miss a day and nothing scolds you. The record just picks back up when you do.
oats, again
59th st
looked up in naples
The last few months
no streaks to protect. just days you kept.
People arrange it however their life is arranged: couples keep it as a two-person journal, scattered friend groups use it instead of asking “how are you” and getting “good,” and plenty of people start alone and add their people later.
fair questions.
What is a shared journal app, exactly?
It's a journal where the entry is your day, and the readers are people you choose. In hodgepodge, each day has three parts: your tasks, one photo, and a thought. Your partner or close friends keep theirs alongside yours, so you end up with a running record of each other's ordinary life.
Do other people see everything I write?
Only the people you've mutually added as friends can see your days. That's the default. You can also set your journal to fully private (just you) or public. You control it per account, and you can change it any time.
Do we have to write a lot?
No. The whole check-in takes about two minutes. A few tasks, one photo, one thought. "Bought spinach with good intentions" is a complete, valid entry. Long entries are welcome but never required.
start a shared journal today.
Free on iPhone and Android. Takes about two minutes.