Frequently Asked Questions

Cipher is a personal knowledge management platform designed to help individuals understand themselves better and achieve their goals more effectively. It's a smart journaling system that transforms thoughts into actionable insights by using advanced technology to analyze your journal entries and provide personalized insights. It is designed for anyone looking for self-improvement, from students managing coursework to professionals aiming for career advancement.

Traditional journals are passive repositories for your thoughts, whereas Cipher is an active system. While it allows free writing using markdown for formatting control, it automatically captures contextual metadata such as mood, weather, location, and device information, all without manual input. Cipher also uses semantic analysis and AI to identify relationships and patterns within your entries, creating dynamic "contexts" that evolve with new information.

Cipher uses a combination of semantic analysis, cosine similarity, and vector databases to understand the relationships between your journal entries. It transforms each journal entry into numerical vectors and uses cosine similarity to measure how similar the entries are, identifying connections and patterns that you might not have noticed yourself.

"Contexts" are dynamic narratives that are automatically built from your journal entries. Instead of presenting just a list of separate entries, Cipher groups related entries together based on semantic similarity, creating evolving stories. These contexts are not static; they update automatically as you add more journal entries, allowing you to observe evolving themes and patterns.

Cipher's "Brain" is its sophisticated insights engine that processes your journal entries and their related contexts to generate actionable, goal-oriented insights. It uses natural language processing (NLP) to understand the nuances of your writing and extract relevant information.

Cipher analyzes your past experiences to guide current and future choices by revealing the "why" behind past decisions and actions. The platform can identify patterns in your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that may otherwise go unnoticed, helping you stay focused on what is important to you.

Cipher is designed to be user-friendly. The system automates all the complex tasks such as data organization, semantic analysis, and correlation. You do not need to be tech-savvy to use it; you simply write, and Cipher handles the complex processing in the background.

Cipher's standout features include: Markdown support for rich formatting; automatic contextual metadata capture; semantic analysis using cosine similarity; dynamic "contexts" that evolve with new entries; AI-powered insight engine; goal tracking and refinement; comprehensive search functionality; cross-device accessibility; and innovative content summarization.

The Insight Explorer is an interactive analysis tool that allows you to dive deep into your journal entries and their connections. It provides a visual interface for exploring patterns, relationships, and insights across your personal knowledge base, making complex connections more accessible and actionable.