Capture reflections through writing, voice, or a photo of a highlighted page. Marginalia surfaces the themes in your thinking and sends you a relevant quote every morning — drawn from your own reading.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
SocratesFree-form text entry. No prompts, no structure. Just you and the page.
Talk through your day. Transcribed automatically — no typing required.
Snap a page from any book. The highlighted passage becomes part of your entry.
Marginalia reads across your entries and identifies the themes, ideas, and concerns that recur over time. Not an AI therapist — just a quiet mirror that shows you what you keep returning to.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.— George R.R. Martin
Add books you've read — fiction, non-fiction, philosophy, poetry. Each morning, Marginalia sends you a passage relevant to what you've been writing about. Not generic motivational posters. Your books, your words, resonating with where you are right now.
Most journaling apps charge $50–$75 a year for features you'll never use. Marginalia is built for people who actually read and think.
Not the centre of the page — the edges. The annotations. The dog-eared corners. The things you underlined and the notes you scrawled in the margin at 11pm. That's what Marginalia is for.
Your journal. Your books. Your patterns.
Marginalia brings them together.