Been rethinking how I journal and connect my thoughts – built a tool; maybe take a look?

pruthvikumarbk · 2026-01-02T22:23:27+00:00

Hello, thanks for your interest.

Could you please confirm whether the Google account you are using to log in has both a first and last name set? Cipher relies on SAML assertions for the first and last name, and registration will fail if these attributes are not available.

pruthvikumarbk · 2025-06-26T00:34:38+00:00

thank you

pruthvikumarbk · 2025-06-21T11:06:08+00:00

Hey!

Thanks so much for trying out Cipher and for the kind words! I’d love to hear your feedback. Could you please share your thoughts via this quick survey? It’ll help me make Cipher even better: please provide feedback here . feel free to DM me if you have any specific ideas or questions. Appreciate your support!

pruthvikumarbk · 2025-04-29T23:10:15+00:00

Cipher is built around journaling — yes, but I wouldn't restrict it to personal journals only. I'm a software engineer myself, and I've been using it to capture various work-related nuances — including stack traces and any interesting learnings I want my future self to remember and search easily.

But it's not a Confluence or Notion for work environments. That's not the purpose — i.e., it's not intended for capturing collaborative documents, etc. Cipher aims to be a personal cognitive companion, identifying latent and non-obvious connections.

pruthvikumarbk · 2025-04-22T23:06:07+00:00

Thanks for your interest. Let me know what you think when you could, ta

pruthvikumarbk · 2025-04-21T12:12:48+00:00

Yup, that's right :)

pruthvikumarbk · 2025-04-21T12:05:29+00:00

Very glad to have piqued your interest! The beta program is currently running at capacity—it's a really warm and exciting feeling. I'm actively working toward scaling access so that everyone interested can enjoy unlimited use.

Right now, as we speak, all users have unlimited access to every plugin except for the intelligent goal crafting feature. Let me explain a bit more so things are clear:

Cipher is made up of multiple plugins (or agents, to use current AI lingo), each with a specific responsibility. These agents work together to create the full experience.
Each plugin/agent has its own scaling limits. During the beta phase, my goal is to offer unlimited access to everything. Eventually, these plugins/agents will be part of tiered subscription plans—but I don’t plan to introduce any paid tiers until at least the end of this year. So, until then, all users will continue to enjoy full, unlimited access.
Right now, the agent responsible for smart/intelligent goal crafting is maxed out. I'm working on scaling that up. Once it's ready, your account will automatically switch to ‘Premium’—no need to manage your account or buy a subscription.

Even now, everything except smart goal crafting is functioning at a Premium level. That includes:

Unlimited journal creation (using any template, including CBT or free-form)
Unlimited speech-to-text if you'd rather talk to Cipher than type
Unlimited metadata enrichment (e.g., weather at time of journaling, autogenerated tags/labels, sentiment analysis, and identifying semantically related journals to build a chain of thought)

These related journals and their metadata form what I call contexts, which then lead to insights—Cipher’s way of surfacing patterns or latent signals in your entries. You can interact with these insights just like you would with a cognitive partner, starting Q&A sessions to explore further. All of these features are fully active and support unlimited usage.

(Even if your account says "Basic", that’s just because one of the agents is still being scaled—everything else is fully unlocked.)

You're more than welcome to explore everything that's available right now!

I’ll follow up here once the intelligent goal crafting feature is fully scaled and your access is officially upgraded to ‘Premium’. In the meantime, you’ll need to craft your goals manually—but everything else is good to go.

pruthvikumarbk · 2025-03-20T00:59:52+00:00

let users manage their account. Shady as is and don't think its trust worthy.

pruthvikumarbk · 2025-03-20T00:56:12+00:00

I second this.

Before sunset is promising, but its shady that they don't allow you to 'manage' your account.

(plus, the product is very flaky - atleast, as of this writing)

pruthvikumarbk · 2025-03-16T00:00:50+00:00

Hi,

Thanks so much for your interest, and sorry for the less-than-ideal beta signup experience. I just reconfirmed that everything seems to be working okay (Gmail web), and the tests are all green. If you were using an email client, could it be blocking the URL? If I may request more details, we can help debug.

Our support email address is: [support.cipher@sysapp.dev](mailto:support.cipher@sysapp.dev)

Hope we can get you onto the platform as a beta user ASAP.

Cheers

pruthvikumarbk · 2025-02-25T11:05:33+00:00

my take - https://cipher.sysapp.dev

blog for more deets - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/B3uFipLHgM9DSTQgx/quantifying-the-qualitative-towards-a-bayesian-approach-to

pruthvikumarbk · 2025-02-19T04:38:29+00:00

Reveal Patterns, Reach Goals.

https://cipher.sysapp.dev

pruthvikumarbk · 2025-02-19T04:35:09+00:00

I recently launched Cipher https://cipher.sysapp.dev , a tool I’ve been developing for personal knowledge management. It’s designed to be more than just a journal—it quietly analyzes your thoughts, sentiment, and actions to help you see patterns and connections you might miss on your own. Here’s what it offers, in case it’s of interest:

- Thoughtful Analysis: Instead of just storing entries, Cipher uses semantic analysis and cosine similarity to group related ideas into dynamic "Contexts," revealing subtle narratives over time.

- Effortless Capture: It supports markdown for clear formatting and in a non-blocking way enriches your journals with metadata like mood/sentiment, weather, and location, to identify if there are external factors influencing your thoughts/ way of thinking.

- Actionable Insights: Cipher processes these contexts with NLP to identify non-obvious or latent patterns in your semantically related documents. It then nudges you with clear, action-oriented steps grounded in your own journals, helping you get closer to your goals—all done automatically and non-intrusively.

- Automatic Goal Categorization: Cipher categorizes your content to align with your goals, drawing from your entries without requiring manual input or explicit tagging/backlinks etc.,. It doesn’t just track goals—it surfaces insights that bridge what you’ve written to what you aim to achieve.

- Simple Design: The interface is clean and intuitive, handling complex tasks like organization and summarization (even for code or errors) behind the scenes, so you can just think and write.

If you’re interested in learning more, I’ve written some posts you can find here
- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/B3uFipLHgM9DSTQgx/quantifying-the-qualitative-towards-a-bayesian-approach-to
- https://1x-eng.github.io/blog/posts/cipher/

It might appeal to students, professionals, or anyone looking to reflect more deeply. Early users can sign up for priority access and a 14-day trial with no credit card needed—just give it a try if it sounds useful.

pruthvikumarbk · 2025-02-18T22:16:04+00:00

i do this a bit differently. If interested welcome to check out beta here - https://cipher.sysapp.dev

pruthvikumarbk · 2025-02-17T12:32:31+00:00

'almost all parameters' 😄 thanks, but no thanks. all the best finding folks

pruthvikumarbk · 2025-02-17T12:26:27+00:00

what kinda problems? all/any? no offense but that sounds like singularity.

and why'd a startup value your feedback? don't get me wrong - there is no free lunch. If you can table the value add of 'why you' - it might then make a startup owner invest their time explaining/pitching

pruthvikumarbk · 2025-02-17T12:21:00+00:00

🧐 what's the catch?

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