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Kinaroo

The journal you talk to that becomes your living story.

Kinaroo

The problem

Writing is the barrier to journaling, so people quit. And memories don't arrive in order; a story told today might have happened in the 1970s. Most tools can't tell the difference.

The approach

Talk-first capture: you speak, it transcribes, then an AI splits the telling into discrete stories and infers when each one happened, keeping both your verbatim voice and a clean, readable version.

AI architecture

Claude runs structured-output extraction over each transcript: it segments a session into Story units and infers each story's date independently (told-date vs. happened-date). When a date is ambiguous, it asks a clarifying question. Deepgram handles speech-to-text.

Highlights

  • ▹Told-date vs. happened-date temporal model
  • ▹Asks a clarifying question when a date is ambiguous
  • ▹Keeps both the verbatim transcript and the cleaned story
  • ▹Built for lifelong accumulation
  • ▹Sample mode with no API key, so anyone can try it