truJournal began as a theraputic personal journaling tool designed to allow individuals the ability to make a stronger connection to themselves through the process of writing about key moments of life, association of those moments to mementos collected along the way we call “Token Rocks”, and flagging certain moments as “Key Stone Moments” that are added to a virtual timeline.

As we expanded the application, we added a feature allowing users to recognize individuals who shared the special moments they wrote about by gifting to them a memento we called a “Gift Rock”. This action linked journaled moments together in both user’s accounts. If the user didn’t have an account the system was designed to create one for them.

Adding this feature quickly turned the journal applicaiton into a social network. Since that time, we have installed features allowing users to add friends to their personal network and allow them the ability to read journal entries they have written if they choose to share them. In fact, the system allows users to share stories about life with the entire network if they so choose. It is simply a selection of private, friends only, or public that allows for who can view what was written. This activity allows non-friends to search by keyword to find stories others have shared that might provide them insight to overcome a life challenge or simply offer real inspiration.

In this way, we have created what we believe to be a powerful tool for helping oneanother along our personal paths of life in a unified system of friends helping friends. The long range benefits are both individual and universal.

Our motto began as a very powerful message and still is today, “Inspire and be Inspired”.