Private by location
The language model, profile, transcripts, and memory store are designed to run locally. Intimacy does not require a remote account.
A private system for continuity
Kioku
A journal that does more than remember what was said. It keeps the shape of a life available across time.
- Form
- Local application
- Material
- Conversation, memory, time
- Status
- Active development
01 / Premise
Most journals preserve entries.
Kioku preserves continuity.
Kioku began under the extremely practical—and extremely boring—name SmartJournal: a terminal-based reflective companion built around a local language model. Conversations remain on the user’s own machine, alongside a persistent profile, session transcripts, and a long-term memory store.
The system identifies durable facts, patterns, relationships, concerns, values, and goals without treating every sentence as permanent. Each memory retains evidence and provenance, allowing it to be reviewed, corrected, dated, merged, or removed.
02 / Memory loop
A conversation becomes a structure.
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Speak
Write naturally in a quiet terminal conversation. Sessions are saved as readable transcripts.
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Distill
Kioku extracts a small set of durable memories while preserving ambiguity and source context.
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Connect
Related memories gather through semantic, temporal, and thematic affinity.
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Revisit
Search, edit, date, merge, or delete. Memory remains inspectable instead of becoming invisible model state.
03 / Temporal atlas
Memory is not a list.
Kioku’s timeline gives recollection spatial form. Direct notes and AI-distilled memories share one navigable field; time runs through it while related experiences form visible constellations.
- Search across summaries, evidence, tags, and sources
- Separate direct records from interpreted memories
- Inspect provenance back to the original session
- Surface uncertain dates instead of inventing precision
Building fictional memory corridor…
Scroll: travel through time
Drag: orbit the corridor
Hover: separate and inspect
Click: open memory
Public demonstration · all memories, evidence, and sources are fictional
04 / Design position
The archive stays accountable to the person.
Memory you can inspect
Every durable memory is a readable record—not a hidden personalization layer. Its summary, evidence, tags, dates, and sources can be examined.
Continuity without capture
The user can correct, merge, or delete what the system remembers. Kioku supports reflection without claiming authority over a life.
05 / Ongoing
A memory system should not tell you who you are.
It should help you see what has persisted, what has changed, and where uncertainty still belongs.