Steve Jobs and Taylor Swift Were My Life Coaches Thanks to AI

A Quick Word

Is an artificial experience just as good as hearing from successful and notable individuals in an AI world?—Kevin

Journal with the greatest minds in human history with Life Note.

👟 Getting Started With Life Note

Life Note offers a personalized experience from the start. Enter your birthdate to set the tone for your journey with the app. You can sign up to save your journals, requiring a secure connection to your Google email account.

After logging in, you'll undergo a brief onboarding process to learn about the app's features. You can access this anytime. After onboarding, you'll reach your main dashboard, "Manifest," where you can document your life goals and ambitions for the year. These entries will guide your activities and tracking in the app.

The setup was fast and easy!

🧠 Assessing Life Note’s Usability

The app has a main navigation on a sliding panel to the left of the screen, and journaling is easily accessible from most sections. You can speak your thoughts instead of typing, and the speech recognition works well. With only a few features, navigating Life Note is easy and should be picked up quickly.

Life Note allows you to set different color themes to represent a calming mood. However, accessibility seems to have been an afterthought on some aspects of the app. The biggest culprit is color contrast, which makes reading difficult.

🤖 Life Note’s Standout Features

Life Note boasts that you'll journal with some of the greatest minds in history. This is possible because their AI mimics the personalities of inspiring people from history to the present. You'll find personalities like Taylor Swift and Nikola Tesla.

I used Jim Carrey and Steve Jobs as my writing buddies for journaling, occasionally including Taylor Swift. They analyzed my entries on life/work balance and offered personalized assessments and relatable experiences to encourage and uplift me in their respective tones.

Earlier, I mentioned inputting your birthdate. This is to track your "life" progress compared to the personalities/celebrities' accomplishments at their different ages. Reaching 100% feels like a countdown to the end of your life. Scary.

Your journal entries are stored so you can view the history of your analysis and motivational assessment from each AI personality. And if you need help with what to journal, they have some topics to choose from to help get you started with writing.

🤔 Why Should You Care

Life Note presents an interesting case. On one hand, I see the benefits of such a motivational tool. On the other hand, considering that AI is "simulating" these personalities behind the scenes, how much authentic advice would you accept from it? Your mileage may vary.

I enjoyed the experience and am excited about this technology. It's hard to assess the output quality as I don't know the people personally. Still, based on documented accounts, the AI represents them well with advice and motivation in line with what you typically hear, just with a dash of celebrity personality.

Overall, Life Note can be the confidence booster to get you through the day, but it all depends on your stance on taking advice from AI.

💪 Life Note Facts

• In beta with features not available

• Free trial limited to 10 journal entries

• Gmail login required

• Subscription based

• Desktop only

👇️ Life Note Website