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On journaling, mental health, and Indian life.

Guides and prompts written for the specific situation of being an adult in India right now. No manifesting, no morning routines, no advice that assumes a spare hour.

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Overthinking

How to Stop Overthinking at 2am (When You Can’t Tell Anyone)

Why your brain loops at night, why thinking harder never ends the loop, and the one technique that reliably does: writing it down.

Mann Team8 min read
Overthinking

Racing Thoughts: How to Do a Brain Dump When Your Head Won’t Slow Down

When your mind is running twelve things at once and none of them finish, the fix is not to think harder.

Mann Team6 min read
Sleep

Can’t Sleep? Write It Down: A 3am Journal Practice for Nights That Won’t Close

Why the night is when everything gets loud, the five-minute writing practice that gives it somewhere to go, and what a sleep diary is actually for.

Mann Team6 min read
Anxiety

Journaling for Anxiety: What Actually Helps (and What Doesn’t)

A practical guide to journaling for anxiety: the techniques with real evidence behind them, the ones that quietly make things worse.

Mann Team8 min read
Relationships

How to Get Over a Breakup You Can't Tell Anyone About (a Writing Guide)

A practical guide to writing your way through the end of a relationship: the first two weeks, the relapse nights.

Mann Team7 min read
Relationships

Heartbreak: What Helps When You Can’t Talk About It

What heartbreak actually does to you, what the "stages" really look like, what helps and what only feels like it helps.

Mann Team7 min read
Family

How to Deal With Parents' Pressure in India: A Writing Guide

Career, marriage, the flat, the grandchildren: a journaling guide for the weight of Indian parental expectations, and how to tell love apart from pressure.

Mann Team7 min read
Getting started

How to Write a Diary: A Beginner’s Guide That Skips the Rules

How to write a diary (or journal, same thing) when you’ve never kept one: what to write on day one, how to keep going.

Mann Team7 min read
Gratitude

How to Start a Gratitude Journal (With 7 Real Examples)

How to start a gratitude journal that doesn’t feel fake: the three-line method, seven real example entries.

Mann Team7 min read
Overthinking

Overthinking Kaise Roke? Likh Kar Dekhiye

Raat ke 2 baje dimaag mein wahi baat ghoom rahi hai? Overthinking rokne ka sabse purana aur sasta tareeka: likhna.

Mann Team6 min read
How it works

An AI to Talk To About the Things You Can’t Say Out Loud (What Mann Is, and Isn’t)

If you searched for an AI to talk to, here is the honest version: what Mann does when you say the thing, what it deliberately does not do.

Mann Team7 min read
Our story

Why we built Mann

Most journaling apps were built for someone in San Francisco. We built one for someone in Bangalore at 2am.

Mann Team6 min read
Prompts

Journaling ideas for Indian life

20 journaling ideas for Indian life: work, family, money and identity. Specific prompts about the family WhatsApp group, the appraisal and the EMI, plus ideas for beginners.

Mann Team4 min read
How it works

How AI journaling actually works (and where it fails)

A plain-English explanation of what an AI journal sees, what it doesn't, and the specific moments where it gets things wrong.

Mann Team7 min read
Privacy

What "encrypted journaling" actually means

How Mann protects your journal: on-device AES-256-GCM encryption, a biometric app lock, data stored in Mumbai, and an honest account of the two places your words are readable.

Mann Team6 min read
Research

The science behind Mann

Journaling is one of the most well-researched tools for mental wellbeing. Here is the evidence that shapes how Mann is built.

Mann Team4 min read

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