About Dayfold
Built from a
personal place.
Dayfold is a free reflection journal made by Aarav Sekhri, a 17-year-old student.
Why I care
I’ve experienced periods of anxiety, and journaling has been one way I’ve worked through what I was feeling.
My younger sister’s experience with selective mutism and anxiety also made mental health personally important to me.
From research to Dayfold
I later wrote a research paper on detecting stress in language, with guidance from a professor. The paper is currently under peer review at JHCS.
Dayfold grew from wanting to turn what I was learning into something useful and accessible: a calm place to write, notice what you feel, and look back.
How Dayfold uses models
My stress classifier. Dayfold can run a classifier trained with the method from my paper: MPNet with a small LoRA adapter, trained on Dreaddit, a dataset of Reddit posts labelled as stress-related or not. The weights from the paper’s run weren’t saved, so this is a new training run of the same setup, and its numbers aren’t the paper’s. It runs in your browser and only suggests whether your words contain stress-related language, or says it isn’t sure. It can’t tell how stressed you are.
A separate emotion model. Feeling suggestions come from an openly licensed model made by other people, trained on GoEmotions, a public dataset of English online comments. It’s supplementary, and the two models are never combined into one score.
Your answers. Both models were trained on public online posts, not journals, and neither is clinically validated. So their output is only ever a suggestion. What gets saved and summarized is what you confirm: the feelings you choose and your own answer about stress.
Prewritten activities. The worksheet questions and the “Take a moment” prompts are fixed text I wrote for Dayfold. They aren’t generated, and they aren’t advice tailored by a model. Dayfold is a journal, not therapy, diagnosis or a crisis service.
Sharing Dayfold
Organizations that support people, online or in person, are welcome to share Dayfold with a link, an email or a QR code.
Dayfold stays independent. Everyone uses the same journal, and organizations that share it don’t see anyone’s reflections.
For organizations