# Plain guides, no pep talk.

*Guides · https://insenia.app/guides*

Short reads on the questions people ask about reflecting in the evening, written to describe rather than to promise.

- [Evening reflection vs journaling](https://insenia.app/insenia/guides/evening-reflection-vs-journaling.md): A journal asks you to write. An evening check-in asks you to answer five questions on a slider in about a minute. What each one gives you, who each one suits, and why typing is where most people stop.
- [How to reflect without writing](https://insenia.app/insenia/guides/reflect-without-writing.md): A practical method for people who want to reflect but do not want to write. One fixed moment, five questions, a scale instead of a sentence, and a pattern read later rather than a day judged tonight.
- [Why Thursdays feel heavy](https://insenia.app/insenia/guides/why-thursdays-feel-heavy.md): Mid-week, many people cannot name one good day so far. The week has a shape, and the shape is personal. It only becomes visible when evenings are placed side by side in colour instead of remembered one at a time.
- [When every day is "fine"](https://insenia.app/insenia/guides/when-every-day-is-fine.md): Fine is the word people reach for when nothing was wrong and nothing stood out. A flat week looks like calm from the outside. A slider against your own usual shows what the word is covering, in either direction.
- [One question a day, done properly](https://insenia.app/insenia/guides/one-question-a-day.md): The question a day habit is older than any app. What makes it work is that the question changes, follows what you said yesterday, arrives at the same hour and can be answered in ten seconds.
- [A thirty second night routine](https://insenia.app/insenia/guides/a-thirty-second-night-routine.md): A night routine does not have to be a screen full of apps. One notification, five taps, done, and a day that breaks at three in the morning so a late night is not counted against you.

## Insenia next to the apps you know.

- [Insenia vs Daylio](https://insenia.app/insenia/vs/daylio.md): Daylio captures your day without writing a single word, and has done so since 2015. Insenia also skips the typing, but asks five questions that change each evening and follow up on what you said before. The two compared, row by row.
- [Insenia vs How We Feel](https://insenia.app/insenia/vs/how-we-feel.md): How We Feel is a free, non-profit journal for your wellbeing built with Yale researchers. Insenia is a paid-optional evening ritual of five generated questions with no typing and no streaks. Where they overlap and where they do not.
- [Insenia vs Day One](https://insenia.app/insenia/vs/day-one.md): Day One is a full journaling app with photos, end to end encryption and years of entries. Insenia is not a journal at all. If you are choosing between writing your days and answering about them, this table helps.
- [Insenia vs Pixels](https://insenia.app/insenia/vs/pixels.md): Pixels asks how your day was and turns each day into one pixel. Insenia turns each evening into one colour too, but gets there with five changing questions, no streaks and no "never miss a day". The two compared.

Answer tonight’s five in the browser, no email: https://insenia.app/tonight. Free on iPhone (https://apps.apple.com/app/id6780788749) and Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.krnic.insenia.app).

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