Jingius · How the tools handle your writing
Your work stays yours
Two different things, kept apart. Your membership account lives in a database, because it has to. What you write into the tools does not, and never has.
The short version
Your account and your writing are two separate things
Almost every tool of this kind keeps both in the same place: you make an account, and everything you write goes into a database beside it. We split them.
Your account — in a database
If you are a member, we store the minimum needed to let you sign in and to know your membership is current. An email address, a password you set, and the subscription record. Nothing more.
Your writing — never in a database
Every answer, every ticked box, every filled-in prompt stays in your own browser on your own computer. It is not attached to your account and it never reaches our server.
A member signs in the way you sign in anywhere. What changes is what happens next: the pages behave identically whether you are signed in or not, and being logged in does not create a copy of your writing on our side. Your account proves you may open the members material. It does not hold what you do with it.
If you are using the eight free tools, there is no account at all — nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign in to.
How the writing part works
The page saves it where you are sitting
The tools are ordinary web pages. When you tick a box or write a line, the page saves it into your browser’s own storage — the same place a site remembers your dark-mode preference. It stays on that computer.
Nothing is uploaded. There is no analytics reading what you typed, and no copy of it anywhere else. We could not show you your own writing if you asked us to, because we do not have it.
That is a deliberate design, not a shortcut.
Specifically
What is stored, and what is not
Stored in your browser
Every answer you write, every box you tick, and every blank you fill in a prompt. Each one is keyed to the page it came from, so the checklist and the planner never mix.
Also stored, but tiny
Two preferences: whether you have dismissed the Save-as-PDF instructions, and whether you have dismissed the note about this page. Nothing else.
Not stored anywhere
What you typed, which tools you opened, how long you stayed, or whether you finished anything. None of it is collected, because none of it is sent — and none of it is attached to your account if you have one.
You can check this yourself.
Open your browser’s developer tools, go to the Network tab, and type into any tool. Nothing leaves the page. This is a claim you do not have to take on trust, which is the only kind worth making.
The honest part
What this costs you
Keeping your writing out of a database means giving up the things a database would give you. These are real, and worth knowing before you fill in twelve weeks of anything.
- Clearing your browsing data erases it
- Not cookies specifically — the option is usually called site data or cached images and files. If you clear that for jingius.com, your answers go with it, and we cannot restore them.
- It does not follow you to another device
- What you write on your laptop will not appear on your phone. There is no sync, because syncing would mean sending it to us first.
- Private and incognito windows forget everything
- Anything written in one is gone the moment you close the window. If you are filling in a workbook, use a normal window.
- A shared computer is a shared workbook
- Anyone using the same browser profile on the same machine can open the page and read what you wrote. On a household computer, use your own browser profile.
- Clear wipes the page with no warning
- The Clear button empties the page you are on, immediately, with no confirmation and no undo. That is intentional — but it means pressing it by accident costs you the page.
The remedy
How to keep a copy
One button, and it works on every tool.
- 1
Press Download PDF
It prints the page with your answers in it, not a blank sheet. What you see is what you get.
- 2
Choose Save as PDF in the print dialog
Set the destination to Save as PDF rather than a printer. The tools show you how the first few times.
- 3
Put it where your own notes live
A PDF is yours in a way a browser cache is not. It survives a new laptop, a cleared cache, and us.
Do this at the end of anything long.
A thirty-day tracker or a twelve-week review is worth exporting once it has something in it. A single morning question is not. Use your judgement rather than doing it religiously.
Membership
What signing in actually involves
Members do have an account, and it works the ordinary way. Signing in sets a login cookie so the site knows the session is yours. Your record holds an email address, a password you chose, and whether the subscription is current.
There is no way around that part — a members-only page has to be able to tell who is a member. What we can control is how little sits beside it, and the answer is: nothing we do not need to run the membership.
Payment is handled by PayPal. We never see your card details.
None of this touches the workbooks. Signed in or signed out, your answers stay in your browser.
Why it is built this way
The tools should not do the thing the essay is about
The argument behind all of this is that your own thinking is worth more when it stays yours — that the problem with living inside other people’s systems is that your attention, and eventually your opinions, end up belonging to them.
It would be strange to make that argument and then ask you to type your private answers into our database so we could hold them for you.
So we did not build one for your writing. It costs us the things companies usually want: no email list built from tool users, no engagement metrics, no idea which questions people answer. That is a fair price. You get a set of tools that cannot be used to study you, and we get to make the argument honestly.
You did the thinking. It is your thinking. It should not live on somebody else’s computer.
If something is wrong
Questions worth asking
- I lost my answers. Can you get them back?
- No. We never had them. This is the honest cost of the design, and it is why the PDF button exists.
- Can I move my answers to a new computer?
- Not directly. Export the PDF on the old one, then fill the new one in from it if you want the page live again.
- Does this work offline?
- Once the page has loaded, yes. Your writing saves with no connection at all.
- Does having an account change any of this?
- No. Your account controls which pages you may open. It holds none of what you write in them.
- Do you use analytics on these pages?
- The site itself may count page views like any website does. What you type into a tool is not part of that and never reaches us.