Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your personal life

Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by samiur1204 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:11PM (#18243276)

Hi guys,

Samiur from Journal here (https://usejournal.com). We started Journal with the goal of reducing information overload, and to see what would be possible if our knowledge - about people, projects, and ideas - was connected and easily accessible.

We think of what we're building as a new kind of journal. You write notes in it, save interesting links, and drop in important documents and messages for later. When you need something, ask Journal, and it helps you find it.

Eventually, we see it becoming a connected home to gather and share knowledge. You use the best services for issues, documents, messaging and more — and Journal ties them all together. We currently support integrations to Google (Gmail, Calendar, Drive) Slack, Dropbox (Files and Paper), Evernote, Pocket, and Atlassian (Jira and Confluence).

We're coming out of community beta today, and would love to hear your feedback!

If you'd like an early access code, please reply to this comment.

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by rinchik on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:27PM (#18243450)

Asking users to volunteer their (personal?) email here in comments doesn't look very professional. Shouldn't you have some sort of form with analytics on your site for that?

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by samiur1204 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:32PM (#18243502)

Actually very true, please feel free not to post your email and I will reach out to you =). Also, we have a signup list on our landing page.

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by nambit on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:35PM (#18243537)

How's this different from Evernote? You keep saying "You ask journal, it'll find stuff for you" Can you get a little more technical? Is it just an indexed search on your notes/links?

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by samiur1204 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:44PM (#18243626)

Great question. We didn't go into too much detail, but we've built a conceptual search index which maps all these disparate items into vectors that are then used for searching, similarity, ranking, etc. Here's a talk by me from a while ago about an earlier version of the system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4O42EWfHoo&t=5s

We can go more in depth on the current version of our system if you think that'd be interesting!

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by nambit on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:43PM (#18244090)

Interesting, will check out the talk.

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by ktross on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @06:11PM (#18244293)

I'd like to try it out!

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by hazz99 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @06:29PM (#18244390)

I'd enjoy an access code! This looks vaguely similar to Notion.so, and I love that

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by granda on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:33PM (#18245265)

Hey Samiur! I'm very interested in your product. As a very active GTD user of Things (by Cultured Code) your app seems right up my alley for daily use. Could you send me over an invite code? My email is: [email protected]

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by hannasanarion on Thursday October 18, 2018 @04:05PM (#18251670)

I am interested.

Is there a system for uploading things into collections? Plans for including OCR? I'm looking for a way to manage my library of reference ebooks.

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by d0m on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:03PM (#18243800)

I've been keeping a google doc pinned tab to keep track of everything (todo, what to read, etc.) so happy to give journal a shot. Email in my profile thanks

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by noahdesu on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:15PM (#18243876)

I've been doing the exact same thing. And I think there is a lot of potential with google docs if combined with some of the google docs scripting capabilities to create a personal cms.

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by kermittd on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:23PM (#18243412)

Just read the article. Seems like an awesome product! I have two questions:

1. Can I get a code ([email protected]?

2. The landing page of Journal is great. How did you go about designing it?

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by jonahjoselow on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:48PM (#18243660)

Would love an access code to check out. Are plans for an API to integrate new services already in the works? email: <hnews username>@gmail.com

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by Bioeye on Thursday October 18, 2018 @02:59PM (#18251130)

Hi Samiur,

I'd love an early access code! I filled out the typeform on the usejournal site as well! My email is <hnname>@gardeneast.com

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by zminjie on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @07:46PM (#18244801)

Been thinking about note taking like Journal for a while now. Would love to try it out!

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by mrisoli on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:45AM (#18246659)

I filled out the form, I'd like to try, my email is celorisoli at gmail

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by HereticLocke on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:29PM (#18243994)

Hello,/u/samiur1204 I'd like an early access code please.

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by dternyak on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @08:03PM (#18244908)

I'd love to try this out! My email is my username at gmail.

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by Rainymood on Thursday October 18, 2018 @04:38AM (#18246879)

I'd love to beta test, your app looks like Notion a lot

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by xwsaw on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:35PM (#18244036)

Journal seems super cool. I’d like a code as well

My email is [email protected]

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by mxstbr on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:41PM (#18243598)

I'd love to try it! contact@<myhandle>.com

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by nswanberg on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @06:01PM (#18244247)

I'd like to give it a try: [email protected]

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by philfrasty on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @07:24PM (#18244693)

Would love an early access code, too. [email protected]

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by curryst on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:52PM (#18243709)

I would love an early access code! [email protected]

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by sid6376 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:22PM (#18243390)

Would like one as well, [email protected]

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by abrahamks on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @07:35PM (#18244754)

I would love to get an early access code, thanks!

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by mikeheaton on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @07:09PM (#18244611)

This sounds really interesting, I’d love a code.

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by stratosgear on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:57PM (#18243752)

I'd like to try it: my HN username at gmail

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by apandhi on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:07PM (#18243825)

Would love an early access code :) Email in Bio

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by Immortalin on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @08:14PM (#18244963)

I would love an access code! Email in profile.

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by sjapkee on Thursday October 18, 2018 @12:14PM (#18249542)

Will there be a self-hosted version?

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by hkai on Thursday October 18, 2018 @09:54AM (#18248297)

Great! Email me at [email protected]

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by ajonnav on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @06:41PM (#18244456)

Would love an early access code too!

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by saisundar on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @06:27PM (#18244382)

Hello, would love to try this out!

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by kapnobatairza on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:49PM (#18243680)

Would love an early access code :)

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by dfischer on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:55PM (#18243733)

I’d like to: [email protected]

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by gunnr15 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @07:22PM (#18244688)

Would love to test it out. Thx.

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by honkycat on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:55PM (#18243737)

I'll try early access:

[email protected]

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by rmdashrfroot on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @06:37PM (#18244435)

Please send one over!

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by arthurcolle on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:18PM (#18243359)

hey i'd like a code. [email protected]

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by zethraeus on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @06:12PM (#18244294)

[email protected]

i'd love to try this

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Re:Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your ... by petra on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:20PM (#18243924)

i would like an invite, please. [email protected]

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