A real person, when that matters
Journaling with an optional human perspective.
Sometimes reflection calls for another person. Browse public Guides by topic and location, invite someone you know, or invite a Guide from another journal into a Bubble. A Guide can offer insights and Attend to entries you share with them, but cannot post entries to your journal.
Choose the kind of presence you want
Look for warmth, candor, life experience, or a perspective outside your usual circle rather than broadcasting a vulnerable thought to everyone you know.
Guidance for many kinds of growth
Invite a parent or sibling to witness entries you share, a coach to reflect on fitness goals, a cooking instructor to respond to kitchen experiments, or a teacher to read creative writing. A performance coach can help an emerging creator think through their work, and a business mentor can offer perspective on decisions and setbacks.
Guidance stays in context
A Guide can read the entries you share with Guides and add written or audio insights connected to the entries that inspired them. They cannot post entries to your journal, so your original experience stays central.
Attendance means “I am here”
A Guide can Attend to an entry with a small acknowledgment that they witnessed it. Attend is not liking, loving, hating, disliking, or judging what happened. It is a quiet way to say that someone you trust is here with you, even when they have no insight to add.
The Red Phone and 1-on-1 requests
The Red Phone brings private conversations, comments, and 1-on-1s into your journal. When a Guide is available, you can request time together by suggesting when and how to meet and adding a note. The other person can confirm, propose another time, or decline; pending and confirmed requests stay together in the Red Phone. In a Bubble, it also holds group and member conversations.
A separate choice for each journal
In a personal journal, your Guide relationship and visibility choices determine access. A Guide you know from one journal can be invited into another. In a Bubble, each member separately decides whether that Guide can see their own posts. Bubble members can add entries; Guides cannot.
Peer reflection, not professional care
Human guides offer personal perspective. They do not replace therapists, doctors, attorneys, financial advisors, emergency responders, or other qualified professionals.
Common questions
Good to know before you begin.
What is a human guide on DiaryBam?!
A human Guide offers peer reflection and lived perspective. Guides create their own profiles and can choose to appear in the app directory.
Are DiaryBam?! guides therapists?
No. Human guides provide peer perspective, not therapy or licensed professional services.
What can an accepted Guide access?
In a personal journal, access follows your Guide relationship and visibility choices. In a Bubble, each member separately approves access to their own posts. A Bubble Guide invitation alone shares no member content.
Can a Guide write in my journal?
A Guide can add insights and Attend to entries they can see, but cannot post journal entries. In a Bubble, members can post their own entries; a Guide stays in the guidance role.
Can I revoke a guide’s access?
Yes. You can end a guide relationship and revoke future in-product access through DiaryBam?!