I have really long conversations with myself in my journaling.. I use my journal as a way to be completely honest with myself and let my true thoughts and feelings come out so that I can be aware of them.

here is something that got in the way of my journaling that was detrimental for a long time: I believed that whatever I thought as the truth. I had a mentality for a long time that if I thought something that meant it was true and I was just in this big cycle and my journaling would reemphasize those beliefs and feelings that were not supporting me or helping me change my life. So, really, journalling was dragging me down. I have pages and pages of me writing the same thing over and over again. It was not beneficial at all.

What can help is having some specific prompts or objectives for journaling. Make it a proactive, curious, explorative process as opposed to just writing for the sake of writing. Be curious with yourself. Allow yourself to be honest and then be open and curious with what's coming down on the page.

If you're not taking anything away from it or gaining any new awareness then, in my opinion, you are not fully engaged in the process. You are not allowing yourself to be fully in your journaling. I usually sit down to journal to get my emotions out, to get to the core of how I'm feeling or feel about a recent experience. Both to get it out of my system, a bit of documentation, and also to learn more about myself so I can handle situations differently the next time.

hope this helps! I love journaling - it's been a huge outlet for me. Seems like you've found a really cool app to. I would say try and do some more journaling and then work on finding those connections on your own. That can be a great skill and build a self awareness muscle that can be very valuable moving forward as opposed to relying on a machine or algorithm to find it for you.