A reading journal
Quotes with a reason, chapters ticked off, pages turned and a streak that counts itself — all in one leather-ledger book.
khoshra is a digital reading journal built for people who keep marginalia. It holds the line you copied, the page you stopped on, and the day you last opened the book — and it follows you from laptop to phone.
What it is
A reading journal is the place you keep what a book left you — the sentence you slowed down for, the page you stopped on, the disagreement you couldn't let go. It is not a book report. It is the private record that makes a book stay yours after the last page.
The reason most reading journals fail is that they ask for an essay. khoshra is built around the smaller thing that survives a busy week: one line after a chapter, a quote with a reason, a page count. The journal that asks for less is the journal you actually keep — and the one you return to.
Every entry you keep gathers on the journal and the timeline, and once a month the monthly memory page surfaces the books and ideas you kept circling.
What it keeps
Marginalia
A quote on its own goes cold. khoshra keeps the line, the page number, and one sentence of your own reasoning beside it — the note you can actually return to.
Every book on the shelf has room for a quote and a note. The shelf surfaces them again as 'notes from the margin', so a line you copied in March is still findable in November.
See the shelf →Reading streaks
Log minutes or pages and the day ticks itself off. khoshra counts the streak, the longest run, and the days you earned by actually reading — not by remembering to mark a box.
Set the threshold that counts as a reading day — ten minutes, say, or five pages — and any session that meets it lights up the habit tracker automatically.
Open the reading page →Chapter notes
Split a book into chapters and check them off as you go. khoshra shows how far through each book you are, your pace per page, and the last day you opened it.
When a book stalls, the chapter list makes the honest answer visible — and the reading plan turns 'finish this book' into a daily page count you can actually hit.
Set a reading plan →Quotes & ratings
Finish a book and give it stars. The quote you kept travels with it onto the shelf, so the line that stayed is never separated from the book it came from.
The shelf sorts by status — reading, read, want — and the homepage lifts your latest notes and quotes back into view as 'notes from the margin'.
Browse the shelf →Paper vs digital
A paper notebook feels right until you try to find a quote from three years ago. A digital reading journal keeps everything searchable, syncs to your phone, and turns reading into a streak you can see.
From the notebook
Every note in the notebook lives at the notebook.
How it fits
Write the line after a chapter and the quote that caught you — the centre of the journal.
Every book with its rating, quote and note — read, reading, and want-to-read.
Pages turned, chapters ticked off, pace per page and the last day you opened the book.
Set a page goal and a book, then track the pages you owe each day to finish on time.
Prompts for the small, repeatable notes the journal is built around.
Begin
New accounts start blank — a fresh shelf, reading page and diary, ready for your real books. Sign in and the journal follows you to your phone.
