14 languages
Nodl transcribes in 14 languages, with technical terms, dialect, and sentences spoken every which way.
For everyone who wants to (re)start journaling
A journal that writes itself,
A journal that writes itself,
while you talk.
Tell your day: on a walk, on your commute, while cooking. Nodl turns it into a finished entry: coherent, dated, in your voice. Not in robot-speak.
Encrypted on servers in Germany, AI exclusively from the EU
The resolution with the shortest half-life
Journaling never fails on willpower. It fails on sitting down.
You know why you want it: clarity, memory, the feeling that your days don't just vanish. But in the evening, when there's finally quiet, you lack the energy to put it into words. First a day is missing, then a week, and eventually the lovely notebook just sits on the shelf and gives you a guilty conscience.
The hurdle was never the experiencing and never the remembering. It's the step in between: the writing down. That's exactly what Nodl takes over.
With Nodl
From rambling to entry
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Just tell it
Ten minutes on a walk, back and forth, with no beginning or end. Talking it all off your chest is the easy part.
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Nodl writes, like you
Your telling becomes a coherent entry. With your own formats and sample entries, you teach Nodl your tone: terse and factual or sprawling and warm.
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Your day, captured
Dated, searchable, gathered in one place. And the audio stays: in five years you can not only read what happened. You can listen to how you sounded back then.
Example
The walk becomes the entry
What you tell, on a walk
“today was such a strange day … first the stress with the car in the morning, but then the talk with Lena, that really made me happy. We haven't talked like that in months …”
What's in your journal
Journal entry, June 11
A day with two faces. The morning began with frustration, the car, again. But then came the talk with Lena. We talked like we hadn't in months, and only then did I notice how much I'd missed it.
Illustrative example.
A journal is the most private document there is.
That's why at Nodl, without exception: every recording, every transcript, every entry is stored encrypted on servers in Germany, in your private workspace. Processed only by AI from the EU that keeps nothing and trains nothing on your words. No feed, no sharing, nobody reads along, and your journal belongs to you: export or delete everything completely at any time.
Objections
What you're right to ask
Won't the entry sound like a machine, then?
That's up to you. You can give Nodl sample entries and define your format yourself. Every new entry follows that. And your wording stays the source: it's your day, in your words, just put in order.
I only tell fragments. Is that enough?
Yes, that's exactly what Nodl is for. “First the stress with the car, but then the talk with Lena” becomes an entry with a beginning and an end.
How regularly do I have to do this?
Not at all. A journal you only talk to on Sundays is worth infinitely more than an empty one waiting for every day. Nodl turns every telling into an entry, no matter how much time passed in between.
How do I start?
With a walk and ten minutes of talking. The free trial is enough for your first entries.
What is voice journaling?
Voice journaling means keeping a journal by speaking instead of writing: you tell your day as a recording, and Nodl turns it into a fully written, dated entry in your own tone – searchable and stored together with the original audio.
Features
Everything in. Nothing extra.
Nodl isn't a dictaphone with a cloud attachment. From recording to finished document: in your format, on your devices, with your data.
Translation into 70 languages
Have your transcript automatically translated into one of 70 languages on request, with no second pass.
Transcript available instantly
While you speak, you see the live transcript. After the recording, the finished version is ready.
Your own document templates
Create formats with instructions and sample documents, Nodl adopts your style and your structure.
Tell speakers apart
In interviews and conversations, Nodl recognizes multiple voices and keeps them apart in the transcript.
Download audio
The original recording stays in your workspace, playable anytime and savable as a file.
PDF, Word, and Markdown
Export finished documents in the format your day needs, to share or to archive.
Export everything
Copy transcripts, download documents, save audio, your texts, transcripts, and documents are yours.
Desktop and smartphone
Record in the browser or upload audio, with no app install, wherever you speak.
Trust
Your words are yours.
Nodl is built for sensitive content. The short version: everything stays in the EU, everything stored sits encrypted in Germany, nobody trains on your data, and you can delete or export anytime.
Encrypted on servers in Germany
Everything that's stored sits encrypted on servers in Germany. Unencrypted storage is switched off at Nodl, not just unchecked.
AI exclusively from the EU
Every bit of processing runs through AI providers in the EU. Your data never leaves the EU, not for transcription, not for structuring.
Nothing stays with the AI provider
Our AI providers don't store your data. After processing, it's deleted there immediately. No copy is created outside your workspace.
No training on your data
Your recordings and documents don't train any AI models. Not with us, not with our providers. Period.
No secret copies
Nodl stores exactly what you see in your workspace: recording, transcript, document. Nothing more. And when you delete something, it's really gone.
Your data belongs to you
Export or delete everything: anytime, completely, without having to ask anyone. Your words are your property, not our raw material.
Openly documented in detail: Security Privacy AI Transparency Subprocessors
Today would make a good first entry.
Tell it tonight: while tidying up, while walking, on the couch. Tomorrow you'll read it.
Encrypted on servers in Germany, AI exclusively from the EU
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