What is Meandre?

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• What is Meandre?

  A quiet place to write about what matters, return to your thoughts and notice how things change.

• Install and set up Meandre

  Find out what to check before installing Meandre and how to complete its first-run setup.

• Create your first journal entry

  Write a title and thought, choose tags and a reminder, then save your first note.

• Navigate your journal

  Find your way around Journal, Reflections and Journey, revisit notes and use filters.

• Write and edit entries

  Create, format, edit and save notes, or keep unfinished writing as a draft.

• Organise your journal using tags

  Use practical tags to organise personal, business, family, faith and gardening entries in one journal.

• Find and revisit older entries

  Use search, tags, stages and month filters to find past notes and read their reflection history.

• Set reminders and review progress

  Choose a review date, find due notes and record a later reflection with your own progress rating.

• Free and Premium

  See what you can use free, what Premium adds, and what happens when a trial ends.

• Understand the Journey screen

  Read your Journey snapshot and see how individual notes become part of a wider picture.

• Understand the insights

  What each of the six Journey insights shows, how to read it, and when it can be useful.

• Protect your journal

  Set a privacy PIN, understand biometric limits and make an informed decision before a forgotten-PIN reset.

• Back up and restore

  Create an encrypted backup, save its unlock material safely and choose merge or replacement with care.

• Understand Google Drive sync

  Understand optional encrypted sync, account and archive choices, conflict handling and the limits of cross-device continuity.

• Export and manage your data

  Make a readable copy and understand the consequences of editing, archiving, deletion and local reset.

• Frequently asked questions

  Find practical answers about local journalling, accounts, tags, backups, privacy and optional sync.

• Troubleshoot common problems

  Check filters, reminders, sync, backup saving and unlock issues while protecting your local journal.

• App versions and platform support

  Understand version and build numbers, choose compatible help, and read the current platform evidence and gaps.

• What can I journal about?

  Explore personal reflections, business ideas, family memories, faith and creative projects, with journal prompts to help you begin.

• Personal journaling

  Start a personal journal with prompts for daily thoughts, gratitude, goals and life changes, then return to your writing to notice change.

• Business and entrepreneurial journaling

  Use business journaling to explore ideas, record decisions and revisit assumptions, with practical prompts for entrepreneurs and freelancers.

• Family history and legacy

  Begin a family history journal with prompts for childhood memories, traditions and life lessons, and consider how to preserve and share your stories.

• Faith and prayer journaling

  Explore prayer journaling with prompts for gratitude, questions, scripture and reflection, at a pace that respects your own faith tradition.