# Jo: The Smart Journal

## TL;DR

Jo is a mobile journaling app that analyzes user entries to provide personalized insights and reminders aimed at improving well-being, demonstrating promising results in a user study.

## Contribution

The paper introduces Jo, a novel journaling app that analyzes entries to offer personalized feedback and well-being suggestions, advancing digital mental health tools.

## Key findings

- Participants found Jo helpful for well-being awareness
- Jo's analysis provided meaningful insights into life balance
- The study showed positive user engagement with the app

## Abstract

We introduce Jo, a mobile application that attempts to improve user's well-being. Jo is a journaling application--users log their important moments via short texts and optionally an attached photo. Unlike a static journal, Jo analyzes these moments and helps users take action towards increased well-being. For example, Jo annotates each moment with a set of values (e.g., family, socialization, mindfulness), thereby giving the user insights about the balance in their lives. In addition, Jo helps the user create reminders that enable them to create additional happy moments. We describe the results of fielding Jo in a study of 39 participants. The results illustrate the promise of a journaling application that provides personalized feedback, and points at further research.