Document your research and writing day by day – in one place where students prove authenticity and teachers can trust.
Mentafy’s Writing Journal is a chronological log of everything that happens in a writing project: text you add, notes you make, and research you bring in. It combines automatic data from Mentafy (e.g. Research Recorder, Writing Process) with your own written, audio, and visual notes.
Writing Journal focuses on your process: what you did, when you did it, and how your project developed.
It:
documents your research and writing activity
groups it into daily entries, and
- gives you a temper-proof record of your performance
Key Features
Integrated research & writing data
Entries can include information from Research Recorder and Writing Recorder, so you don’t have to reconstruct your process later.
Cross-platform sync
View and update the journal on laptop, tablet, or phone. Whether you work in Word, Google Docs, OneDrive or Google Drive, the underlying activity is reflected in the journal.
Chronological daily entries
See your project day by day: new text, uploaded files, notes, source alerts and other activities – all on a single timeline.
Writing Journal In Detail
The Writing Journal acts as a certificate that you actually did the work you were assigned. It helps you learn from your own process and improve with each new project.
For each project, the journal documents:
when you added or changed text,
which research materials you brought in, and
which notes and reflections you created – listed per day in a clear overview.
How that looks in practice:
You keep working in your usual tools.
Mentafy adds activity to your journal automatically.
Whenever you want to look back, you open the journal and see how your work evolved: where you started, when you did most of the research, where you rewrote, and what you noted for next time.
You can also use the journal as a basis for reflective reports and methodology sections.
The Writing Journal gives you insight into a student’s work process. It helps you understand how a text was created and serves as evidence that the student completed the assigned work themselves.
For each student project you can, where permitted:
see a dated log of research and writing activity,
view the student’s own notes and reflections, and
relate this to the final text you are grading.
How that look in practice:
The journal is not intended for exhaustive review in every case.
For most assignments, a quick look at overall activity is enough to inform feedback or grading.
When questions arise (e.g. suspected misconduct, unusually polished text), you can drill down into specific days and entries.
The journal then serves as a tamper-proof documentation of what was added when – useful both for pedagogical feedback and formal integrity procedures.
FAQ
Partly. The journal is based on project activity that Mentafy collects automatically (e.g. text added, files uploaded, research steps). You can then add your own written, audio, or visual notes on top of that. So the “log” is automatic, the “reflection” is yours.
By default, your journal belongs to you. Whether teachers or examiners can view it – and at what level of detail – depends on how your institution configures Mentafy and what you agree to share for a given course or assignment.
No. Research Recorder focuses on what materials you collected and when. The Writing Journal focuses on your overall process – combining research activity, writing activity, and your own reflections into a day-by-day project record.
No. Mentafy does not use keylogging or screen recording. The journal is built from project-related events (e.g. saved document versions, uploaded files, notes you create) – not from general device or browsing activity.
That depends on your institution or course. Some teachers may make the journal a required part of the assignment; others may offer it as an optional support and evidence tool. Mentafy provides the functionality – your programme decides how it is used.
Yes. Mentafy is designed from the ground with GDPR/CCPA principles in mind (data minimization, purpose limitation, user controls). Learn more >