Review & journal

Review media, captions, and summaries

Use photos, videos, voice input, written notes, captions, and weekly, monthly, or yearly reviews inside Journal.

Audience: Users who want Journal to reflect real days, not only typed text.

Time: 18 minutes

Level: Intermediate

Scenario

Start with the workflow this guide is designed for before moving into the steps.

As a daily review user, I want photos, videos, voice notes, typed notes, and AI captions to sit in one journal entry so a week or month can be reviewed without reconstructing everything from memory.

You can add media to Journal, review AI captions, voice-fill a photo caption when needed, and generate period summaries from the right source entries.

Complete steps

Add the day first

Start with a daily Journal entry. Add typed notes, a voice diary, photos, videos, or imported Markdown before asking AI to summarize.

The date matches the day you want to review.

Voice, text, and media are not scattered across unrelated entries.

Sync photos and videos

Use the Journal media picker or mobile sync path to attach images and videos. Videos can appear as media cards, while photos can receive captions and categories.

The media appears on the correct day.

Private media opens through an authorized viewer, not a permanent public URL.

Review captions and categories

Photo recognition can produce a caption and a category. Treat the caption as a draft description of activity, setting, mood, or location, then edit it if the detail is wrong.

AI captions are checked before they become review facts.

If a caption matters, edit it yourself or voice-fill the caption from the mobile viewer.

Generate the period review

Use weekly, monthly, or yearly Journal pages when you want a higher-level review. These summaries should draw from the matching lower-level entries.

Weekly review uses daily entries from the week.

Monthly review uses weekly context where available.

Yearly review uses monthly context where available.

Decide what becomes memory or content

After the summary is readable, promote only stable facts into AI Memory and send only source-backed ideas into Content Studio.

Temporary feelings stay in Journal unless you intentionally save them.

Content ideas still point back to the original entry or media.

Details

Input types Journal can combine

A useful journal entry can mix several sources. The point is to keep the day understandable, not to force every source into the same format.

Voice diary: speak a reflection and let Vowise transcribe it.
Written notes: type edits, details, and corrections directly.
Photos: sync images and review generated captions or categories.
Videos: keep short clips as visual context for the day.
Awareness Log: bring actions, habits, practice, and tasks into the same period review.

Monthly and yearly summaries

Weekly, monthly, and yearly pages are for synthesis. They should make patterns visible while leaving the underlying entries editable.

Use weekly review to see decisions, wins, challenges, and next-week focus.
Use monthly review to compare goals, lessons, and repeated themes.
Use yearly review to summarize major wins, growth, lessons, gratitude, and vision.