Chournal - Feature Introduction

Chournal is a chat-based note-taking application that allows users to record inspirations, ideas, to-do items, and financial transactions through conversations. The app integrates AI functionality, supports voice input, image uploads, file sharing, and provides powerful organization and search capabilities.

Core Features

In Chournal, virtual friends/note topics/note categories are called “Inspirations”. To take notes, you need to create an inspiration first. You can also create a general recording inspiration and later transfer selected conversation messages to newly created inspirations.

1. Inspiration Creation & Management

• Inspiration Creation: Users can create unlimited inspirations, each functioning as a virtual friend
• Inspiration Editing: Support for modifying inspiration titles, icons, and content
• Inspiration Pinning: Important inspirations can be pinned to the top
• Inspiration List: Inspirations are displayed as a list for easy access, with sorting rules configurable in general settings
• Quick Record: Desktop widget support allows binding an inspiration to quick record, clicking the widget directly opens the chat window of that inspiration with keyboard ready for input

2. Diverse Content Input Methods

• Text Input: Text recording
• Voice Input: Support for voice recording with automatic transcription to text
• Image Upload: Support for selecting photos from gallery
• File Upload: Support for uploading various file types, downloadable when needed
• Drawing Function: Built-in drawing tools for sketching and adding to chats
• Link Preview: Automatic recognition and preview of URL link content

3. AI Assistant Features

• AI Conversation: Support for conversations with AI assistants to get suggestions and answers
• AI Summarization: One-click AI summarization of fragmented notes
• AI-Generated To-Do Items: AI automatically generates to-do lists based on notes
• AI-Generated Bills: AI generates bills from notes, providing detailed bill information
• AI Text Refinement: Intelligent refinement of voice-recognized text (correcting typos and removing grammatical errors)
• AI Merging: Merge multiple messages into one, using AI to automatically refine and make the combined sentences coherent

4. To-Do Item Management

• To-Do Creation: Multi-select messages to create to-do lists, AI-generated to-do lists, single-select messages to add to existing to-do lists
• Continuous AI To-Do Generation: For existing to-do lists, after adding new notes (chat messages), you can use AI to generate new to-do lists that include uncompleted tasks from previous lists
• Status Tracking: Mark completion status of to-do items
• To-Do Reminders: Ability to add deadlines to to-do items and create a to-do reminder desktop widget that displays upcoming deadlines
• Swipe Actions: Reveal hidden menus through swiping to delete specific tasks in to-do lists

5. Content Management & Organization

• Message Editing: Support for editing sent messages
• Message Deletion: Delete single messages or batch delete multiple messages
• Message Transfer: Transfer selected multiple messages to existing inspirations or newly created inspirations
• Message Merging: Combine multiple selected messages into one
• Clear History: Clear all messages before a specific time point

6. Search & Find

• Full-text Search: Support for searching all inspirations and message content
• Search Result Preview: Intuitive display of search result context with highlighted keywords

7. Multimedia Content Handling

• Image Viewer: Click on images for full-screen viewing, with support for saving images to gallery
• Audio Playback: Support for playing recorded voice messages
• File Preview: Select files to open with other apps
• No Compression: All images and files are stored without compression, preserving original files

8. Data & Cloud Synchronization

• iCloud Storage: All data stored in iCloud and synchronized across multiple devices
• Local Cache: Provides local caching to reduce network dependency and optimize experience
• Data Export: Feature not yet developed

9. User Center

• No account required, no registration or login needed
• Avatar Setting: Customize user avatar
• Theme Setting: Personalize the app’s chat interface theme

10. Settings & Preferences

• General Settings: Basic application settings and preferences
• AI Settings: Provides AI assistant parameter configuration for VIP users
• Cache Management: Clean application cache