Voice journaling

Voice journaling is a Pro+ feature for capturing freeform training and recovery notes by speaking instead of typing. Tap the floating mic on your dashboard, talk for up to a minute, and Honedly transcribes it via OpenAI Whisper. The transcript is indexed into your Coach context — so next Sunday's insight and tomorrow's daily brief know what you noted, without you re-typing it.

Best for the things you'd normally forget by the time you get back to a keyboard: how an exercise felt, why a session went short, what you ate that's not in your logged meals, a recurring pain or fatigue signal, a psychological note about a goal.

1. Open the app on mobile (HTTPS required — the browser microphone APIs are only available in secure contexts).
2. Look for the floating mic button bottom-right of the dashboard, above the bottom navigation.
3. Tap to start. The first tap on a new browser prompts you to grant microphone permission; from then on, taps start recording immediately.
4. Speak — up to 58 seconds. A progress ring around the button shows time remaining; the recording auto-stops right before the cap so a forgotten button doesn't burn budget.
5. Tap to stop. The upload + transcription happens automatically; within ~10 seconds you land on the transcript detail page for what you just said.

iOS Safari, Chrome (Android + desktop), and Firefox (Android + desktop) are supported. The mic button hides itself on browsers that don't expose MediaRecorder.

Every journal you record is stored at /coach/journal with the transcript, audio duration, a sentiment tag, and (optionally) the original audio clip. You can replay any entry, edit the transcript if Whisper missed a word, or delete entries you don't want kept.

Journals automatically thread into the weekly Coach insight and the daily brief — Coach reads them when building the prompt, so observations you record on Tuesday show up in the analysis on Sunday.

Voice is sent to OpenAI Whisper for transcription only — OpenAI retains the audio for 30 days per their data policy, then deletes it. The transcript stays in your Honedly account.

By default Honedly also keeps the audio in a private R2 bucket so you can replay it later. If you'd rather transcribe + discard, flip Retain audiooff from the journal page's settings — Honedly will delete the blob immediately after transcription and only store the text. Already-uploaded clips can be deleted individually from each entry.

• Quiet room is gold. Gym noise, traffic, wind — Whisper handles them but accuracy drops. Walk to a quiet corner if you can.
• Spell out exercise + supplement names. Whisper is good at general English, less so at gym jargon. “R-D-L” instead of just “RDLs” helps; same for supplement brands.
• Short is fine.A 5-second note is just as useful as a 50-second one if it's specific.
• Edit if it matters. Each transcript has an Edit button; correcting names + numbers there also corrects what Coach reads later.