Technology shouldn’t replace what it means to be human; it should empower us!
I build apps and software to promote and augment personal reflection, mental and emotional wellbeing.
My objective is to empower the pursuit of meaningful goals and help everyone to better understand themselves, build self-awareness, and align actions with purpose.
Stay Reflective (iOS and Web)
Empowering Introspection, Enabling Self-Awareness
🚀 Try one of our reflection journeys or journaling templates at StayReflective.com.
Stay Reflective is a thinking and reflecting tool. Built around guided reflections and empowered by AI, Stay Reflective helps you reflect and journal in better ways and more regularly. Start with a blank page or answer a few reflection prompts, and after you’lll get personalized follow-up reflection questions. Empower your journey.
First Pilot Launched in Jan 2024 with Foothill College’s Music Technology program, Stay Reflective has helped thousands explore their thoughts and navigate personal, professional and creative challenges with intentionality.
Status: Currently available on Web and iOS (Android Coming Soon).
Contact: hello@stayreflective.com.
Background and Building: I designed and built Stay Reflective using Flutter and a Firebase backend. Based on a multi-year effort to integrate self-tracking and personal development via several open source projects and my own tech explorations, I was excited by LLM/GenAI tech like ChatGPT but I was disappointed with its tendency to give answers and advice.
I wanted an AI journaling and reflection tool to meet me where I was and help me explore and reframe my thoughts.
Stay Reflective combines human editor reflection journeys and journaling templates with AI following questions. Enabling anyone to dive into different topics and questions and get helpful and nudging questions as you reflect.
What’s Next? What’s Ahead?
- More Content and full customizable and personalized reflection journeys
- Empowering Reflection Facilitators: Reflection is largely a solo act but inviting someone to reflect isn’t. Since my first pilot, I’ve been amazed at how a teacher or mentor can bring self-awareness to others. I’m currently working with partners and reflection facilitators to bring reflection and introspection to more situations spanning career and creative moments in music, writing and much more.
- Android and Performance Improvements: On the tech side, I’m working to improve the app’s reliability and performance as well as bring a release to android devices soon.