Methodology

The guides and the prompts are signed by José, who makes Tagaro at Utropia. He writes them with the help of AI and reviews them sentence by sentence before they are published: no page goes out until he has read all of it.

We are not psychologists or doctors, and we don’t write as if we were. We write about keeping a journal: how to start, what to keep, how to carry on.

What we say about keeping a journal comes from making Tagaro and using it. What comes from a study, a dictionary or a statistic carries its source at the foot of the page, linked and in its exact words, so you can check it.

If a claim has no source, we don’t write it. And we don’t promise what the studies don’t say: keeping a journal cures nothing.

On this website, AI helps with the drafting and José reviews every sentence. The photos were taken by people, not generated by AI: they come from Wikimedia Commons, with their author and licence in the legal notice.

In the app, AI is optional. If you turn it on, it gives a title to what you keep without one, asks you a question at night and writes a line for each week, month and year. Without it, Tagaro keeps everything the same.

The prompts in the library follow the same rules Tagaro asks by every night:

• About something concrete that happened: a place, a person, a meal, a time of day.
• Answered with a word or a short phrase, not with a yes or a no.
• Never “why”, and never about what you felt, what it meant or what you learned.
• No doctors, hospitals, break-ups or hard days. If a day weighs, better not to ask.

Each prompt comes with a one-line example answer. We made the examples up; they are nobody’s answers.

Every page says when it was last reviewed, and that date only changes when what it says changes. The sample days on the home page (the market, the bridge, the concert) are made up, like the ones in the guides.

If you find a mistake, write to hello@tagaro.app and we’ll fix it.

Nothing on this website is medical or psychological advice. If what weighs on you is a lot, talk to someone you trust or to a professional.