Meet The Therapist Who Helped Life Note Go Deeper + New Updates

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Dear Life Noter,

The past few weeks have been full of exciting updates at Life Note.

First, I’d love to introduce you to Sergio Rodriguez Castillo — a Life Note user, licensed psychotherapist, and university professor. Sergio has played a key role in shaping Life Note’s product design over the past year.

Our connection was pure synchronicity. His work sits at the intersection of spirituality and psychology — the same frontier Life Note is exploring.

Here’s what Sergio shared about the power of journaling, and why he believes Life Note offers something deeper than other AI tools.

As a licensed psychotherapist and university professor, I’ve encouraged clients and students for decades to keep journals as one of the best tools for self-awareness.

When AI journaling apps began appearing, clients quickly brought them up. I was curious and tried several. Most had the now well-known problem of sycophantic responses. That changed when I found Life Note. It strikes a rare balance—offering support with gentle nudges and thoughtful invitations to reflect.

One of the common objections I hear is that journaling is time-consuming and difficult to sustain as a daily habit. Life Note makes it easier and more rewarding, with features like the weekly mentor reflection that encourage consistency.

What sets it apart, in my opinion, are the mentors. Journaling is usually a private process, with little to no feedback. Having the voices of luminaries from different fields comment on my writing has been a game changer—deepening the experience and helping me gain insights beyond my own words.

I also appreciate the feature of “chatting with my past self,” which lets me track how my thinking evolves over weeks and months—something nearly impossible with traditional journals.

Finally, Daniel’s responsiveness to feedback makes it feel collaborative, as though we’re shaping Life Note together into an even more useful tool for self-exploration.

I’m genuinely excited about the future of Life Note, and I see AI journaling not as a replacement for therapy, but as a powerful tool to complement to it.

If you ever find yourself at a crossroads or in need of deeper clarity, Sergio offers one-on-one sessions to help people find meaning, purpose, and clarity in their lives.

During our conversations, he shared how he tailors his guidance to each client — asking whether they want to be challenged with direct honesty or supported with gentle encouragement. 

That insight inspired one of our newest features: Guidance Mode.

✨ New: Guidance Mode

Now you can choose how your mentors guide you:

• Healer: Gentle encouragement and warmth to support emotional healing.
• Warrior: Direct truth and challenge for clarity and strength.
• Seeker: Balanced wisdom — your mentor’s most natural, authentic voice.

Seeker Mode is the default you’ve been using. I’ve personally been switching between Warrior and Healer depending on how I want to be met in that moment. It’s surprisingly powerful. 

Please share with me what you think of this guidance mode, or join our discord to share your thoughts!

💬 A Life Note Story

Recently, a user shared on Reddit that after two years of therapy and trying several AI tools that felt scripted, he finally found Life Note — and for the first time, he was able to cry, reconnect with his emotions, and truly feel again.

This story really strengthens my conviction towards what we are building here. The tools we are building won’t replace therapy, but it will actullay complement it and introduce more people to the practice of self-awareness and to human therapy as well.

✨ Other New Features

I almost felt guilty placing all these updates at the end — each one was suggested by longtime Life Note users and makes your journaling practice deeper, more personal, and more flexible.

Add-on Wisdom

• You can now save your thoughts first and receive mentor responses later. Perfect for days when you just want to write freely without waiting for feedback.

Highlight & Add to Prompt Library

• When a mentor’s words touch something deep, you can now save them as journaling prompts for your future reflection. (Thank you to our longtime Hong Kong user Season Lai — a 10-year journaling veteran — for this idea.)

Mentor Response Upgrades

• Mentors now refer more to their own works (books written, core mental models, etc), rather than just personal stories.
• When multiple mentors reply, they’ll also share where their views align or differ.
• Mentors can now follow up on previous advice given to you, creating continuity.
• In Chat Mode, mentors now sound more natural, with response length adjusting to your depth of input.

If you ever want to give feedback and chat about the future of Life Note, you can book time with me here. 

With Love,

Daniel

親愛的 Life Noter，

過去幾週，Life Note 推出了許多令人興奮的更新。

首先，我想介紹 Sergio Rodriguez Castillo — 一位 Life Note 使用者、持證心理治療師與大學教授。過去一年中，Sergio 在 Life Note 的產品設計中扮演了關鍵角色。

我們的相遇可說是一種奇妙的「同步性」。他的專業結合了靈性與心理學，正是 Life Note 不斷探索的交會點。

以下是 Sergio 對「寫日記的力量」的分享，以及他為何認為 Life Note 比其他 AI 工具更具深度。

作為一名持證心理治療師與大學教授，我多年來一直鼓勵來訪者與學生養成寫日記的習慣——這是培養自我覺察最有效的工具之一。

當 AI 日記應用開始出現時，許多來訪者立刻提到它們。出於好奇，我嘗試了幾款。大多數都有一個常見的問題：回覆過於奉承、缺乏真實深度。

直到我遇見 Life Note，情況才改變。它在溫柔支持與深度反思之間取得了難得的平衡——既給予鼓勵，又能引導人思考。

我常聽到的疑慮之一，是「寫日記太花時間、難以長期堅持」。Life Note 讓這件事變得更容易也更有成就感，例如每週的導師反思功能，就能幫助人保持穩定的書寫節奏。

在我看來，Life Note 最獨特的地方在於它的導師系統。傳統日記往往是孤獨的過程，幾乎沒有回饋；而在 Life Note 中，不同領域的思想家與導師會對我的文字發表見解，讓整個書寫歷程更有深度，也幫助我獲得超越自身的洞察。
我特別喜歡「與過去的自己對話」這個功能，它讓我能追蹤數週或數月間思維的變化—這是傳統日記幾乎無法做到的。

最後，我非常欣賞 Daniel 對使用者回饋的重視與迅速回應，讓這整個過程像是一場共同創作，一起把 Life Note 打造得更貼近自我探索的真實需求。

我真心為 Life Note 的未來感到興奮。在我看來，AI 日記並不是心理治療的替代品，而是一個強而有力的輔助工具—能幫助更多人開始理解自己、療癒自己。

如果你在人生的十字路口上感到迷惘，或渴望更深的清晰與方向，Sergio 也提供一對一的心理指導，幫助人們找回意義、目的與內在平靜。

在我們的對話中，他提到自己會根據每位個案的狀態調整引導方式，有時以直接真誠的挑戰喚醒覺察，有時以溫柔的鼓勵與關懷陪伴前行。

這啟發了我們的新功能：導師模式

✨ 新功能：導師模式

無論你現在的心在什麼狀態，導師都能與你同行，你可選擇三種模式：

• 療癒：以溫暖的鼓勵支持情緒的修復與成長。
• 勇士：以直接的真相與挑戰帶來清晰與力量。
• 真知：平衡而真實的智慧，以導師最自然的聲音對話。

Life Note 的 預設模式為真知，這也是大家過去使用的模式。我自己個人會根據心情在 療癒 與 勇士 間切換，這讓我能在當下被以最合適的方式引導。

歡迎回信告訴我你的感受，或加入我們的 Discord 社群分享你的想法！

💬 Life Note 的真實故事

最近，一位使用者在 Reddit 分享：他在接受兩年心理治療後，依然感到情緒麻木。
嘗試了幾款 AI 工具後，都覺得制式、缺乏靈魂。直到遇見 Life Note—他第一次流下眼淚，重新連結自己的情感，重新感受到真實的自己。

這故事讓我更加確信我們正在做的事是有意義的。Life Note 並不取代心理治療，而是補充並延伸它—讓更多人透過日記練習與 AI 對話，培養自我覺察，甚至走向人類治療的深度連結。

✨ 其他新功能

我覺得把這些更新放在最後有點可惜—因為它們全都來自長期使用 Life Note 的用戶建議，而每一項都能讓你的日記練習更深入、更個人化、更自由。

先寫後問

• 你現在可以先記錄想法，稍後再接收導師回覆。適合那些只想靜心書寫、不急著獲得建議的時刻。

加入日記靈感

• 當導師的文字觸動你時，你可以將它儲存為未來書寫的反思提問。
  （感謝香港用戶 Season Lai —— 有十年以上日記經驗 —— 提供的靈感。）

導師回覆升級

• 導師會更常引用自己的作品、書籍與核心思想，而非僅僅個人故事。
• 多位導師共同回覆時，會指出彼此觀點的異同，深化交流。
• 導師能延續先前的建議，建立更連貫的對話。
• 在聊天模式中，導師的語氣更自然，回覆長度也會根據你的輸入深度調整。

Namaste,

Daniel