Prayer and Journal

Logging a prayer

Tap the Prayer tab and then the plus button. You will see a text field. Write whatever is on your heart. There is no required format. One sentence is enough. A full page is fine.

Optional fields:

• Title. A short label for finding this prayer later. If you leave it blank, the app uses the first line of your entry.
• Pillar tag. Which of the nine pillars this prayer belongs to. On paid tiers the AI can infer the pillar from the content; on the free tier you tag it manually or leave it untagged.
• Scripture reference. If a specific verse is connected to this prayer, you can attach it. It shows inline in the prayer view.
• Status. Active (you are still praying this) or Answered. You can change this at any time.

Tap Save. The prayer appears in your prayer log, ordered by most recent. You can filter by pillar, status, or date range.

Marking a prayer answered

Open the prayer and tap Mark Answered. You will be prompted to add a short note: what happened, what God did, what you want to remember. This note is optional but worth writing. Answered prayers are some of the most faith-building things you can read back over a season.

Answered prayers stay in your log with a visual distinction so you can scroll back and see them. On paid tiers, Smart Recall can surface answered prayers when you are in a moment of discouragement and ask the AI what God has done in your life.

Journaling

The Journal tab works the same way as Prayer, with a few differences. Journal entries are more open-ended. They are not requests; they are reflections. What happened today. What you noticed. What you want to say to God about it.

Journal entries also support longer-form writing. The editor handles multiple paragraphs comfortably. You can use it for an evening examen, a note after a sermon, a record of a conversation that God used, or anything else that belongs in a written record between you and Him.

Journaling prompts

If you open a new journal entry and tap the Prompt button, the app will offer a starting question. Prompts are drawn from categories:

• Where did I sense God today?
• What resisted in me today, and why?
• What am I carrying that I have not handed to God?
• Where did I see God’s faithfulness this week?
• What is one thing I want to thank God for right now?

These are starting points, not assignments. Write past the prompt as soon as you have something to say.

On paid tiers, the AI can generate a prompt drawn from your recent anchor completions, answered prayers, or pillar activity. It will notice patterns you might not have noticed and ask a question that fits this specific season of your life.

Voice journaling

On any entry, tap the microphone icon to record instead of type. The app uses your device microphone to capture audio, then transcribes it using the Whisper model. The Seedling free tier includes a 60-minute transcription trial during your first seven days. Anchored tier and above include ongoing voice transcription as part of the plan.

Voice recordings are stored in encrypted Supabase Storage and linked to the entry. You can play back the original audio or read the transcript. Both are private to your account.

What stays private

Everything in your prayer log and journal is private. That word means something specific in AnchoredTime:

• Row-level security at the Supabase database layer means your entries are readable only by your account. Our admin tooling cannot read the content of individual prayers or journal entries.
• When the AI accesses your entries (to generate a prompt, surface a Smart Recall result, or generate a weekly summary), it does so as your agent. The content is passed to the AI provider for that specific request and is not retained by the provider for training under their current API policies.
• AnchoredTime never uses your prayers, journal entries, or personal content to train any AI model.
• Aggregate data (counts, dates, pillar activity) is used for billing and feature improvements. Individual content is not.

For the full privacy picture, see Your data and privacy and our security page.