From Journaling to Evidence-Based Reflection: Building InnerTrace, a Self-Growth AI Agent

Not just another chatbot, but a reflection assistant that reasons over your own history. For a long time, I had one frustration with journaling: we write a lot, but very little turns into structured self-understanding. Entries are scattered across notes, hard to retrieve, and even harder to connect over time. So when we ask, “What’s been draining me lately?”, we usually answer from memory bias, not evidence. That is why I built InnerTrace — an AI-powered self-growth system based on LLMs, lon...