Sheets, gathered

A journal that writes plain Markdown into a folder you own.

Quire keeps one file per day, named for the day it holds. Each time you write, a timestamped block is appended. Nothing already in the file is overwritten.

An app you can leave without losing anything is an app you can trust to hold something.

The format is the product

Your folder, after a few days of writing:

your-folder/
  2026/
    08/
      2026-08-30.md
      2026-08-31.md

And a day, opened in any editor:

---
date: 2026-08-31
---

## 07:15

Slept badly. The meeting is at eleven and I am
already rehearsing it.

## 14:32

It went fine. It always goes fine. Note that.

That is the whole storage design. There is no database, no proprietary container, and no second copy of your writing held inside the app. Edit a file in Obsidian and Quire shows the edit. Delete Quire and every word stays exactly where it was.

What it will not do

Reach the network

Quire does not declare the INTERNET permission, so it is incapable of a network call - not merely configured against one. No analytics, no crash reporting, no accounts, no sync. See the privacy policy.

Count you

No streaks, no totals, no notifications, no badges. The archive is a calendar, and a day you did not write is a plain number on the same paper as one you did - tappable, leading to a page that offers to open it. Nothing is greyed out, struck through, or added up. No screen in Quire will tell you how you are doing.

Interrupt you

The home-screen widget shows today's last words and opens straight into writing. That is the only way the app reaches you, and you can remove it by dragging it off the screen.

Write for you

Quire does not draft, prompt, summarise, or reflect on your entries. It is a place to put words, not a correspondent.

Where your folder lives is your business

Quire does not sync. If you want your journal on more than one device, put the folder somewhere that already syncs - Syncthing, a git repo, whatever you already trust with your files. Reimplementing that badly is not an improvement.

Made quietly, for people who want their own words back.