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 # Pile - a reflective journaling app
 
-Pile is a minimalist desktop app designed for reflective journaling. It's all about simplicity, keeping your thoughts secure on your local machine, and enhancing your reflective writing process and creativity with AI insights. **All completely free.** 🤑
+Pile is a desktop app for reflective journaling. It's about simplicity, keeping your data local, and enhancing your journaling experience with AI.
 
 ![Pile App Screenshot](./assets/cover.png)
 
 ## Why use Pile?
 
-- 💾 **Local Storage**: Keep your precious journal entries stored securely on your computer, offering you greater flexibility, security, and manageability compared to paid cloud services.
-- 📝 **Markdown Support**: Entries are stored in markdown format, keeping your journal clean and organized.
-- 🗂️ **Create Piles**: Organize your thoughts by creating separate *Piles* for different topics and aspects of your day-to-day life.
+- 💾 **Local Storage**: Keep your journal entries stored securely on your computer, offering you greater flexibility and ownership.
+- 📝 **Markdown Support**: Entries are stored as markdown files (*currently includes some HTML), keeping your journal clean and accessible with tools other than Pile.
+- 🗂️ **Create Piles**: Organize your thoughts by creating separate *Piles* for different aspects of your day-to-day life, _or_ use one Pile as a general journal for everything.
 
-## Getting Started
+## Getting started
 
 1. ⬇️ Download the latest version of Pile by going to the [Pile releases page](https://github.com/UdaraJay/Pile/releases/).
-2. 📂 Open the `.zip` or `.dmg` file and drag the application to the destination of your choice (*optional*), such as your `Desktop/` or `Applications/` folder.
-3. 😎 Finally open the application, create a `New Pile`, and start your reflective journey.
+2. 📂 Open the `.zip` or `.dmg` file and drag the application to the destination of your choice (*optional*), such as your `Applications/` folder.
+3. 📝 Finally open the application, create a `New Pile`, and start your reflective journey.
 
-### AI Reflections (⚠️ GPT-4 / ChatGPT Premium)
+### AI reflections (requires GPT-4 access)
 
-Enhance your reflective journey by integrating ChatGPT's AI reflections into Pile. If you have a access to OpenAI's GPT-4 ChatGPT, you can use your API key to:
+Enhance your journaling experience by integrating OpenAI's GPT AI reflections into Pile. If you have access to OpenAI's GPT-4 API, you can use your API key to:
 
-- **Reflect on Text**: Click "reflect" on any written text to get AI-generated insights and thoughts.
+- **Reflect on text**: Click "reflect" on any written text to get AI-generated insights and thoughts.
 
 👉 To do this, head over to [platform.openai.com/api-keys](https://platform.openai.com/api-keys) and create a new API key. Click the settings icon on the top-right corner of Pile and enter your secret API key into the API key field.
 
 ## Contributing
 
 If you'd like to contribute to Pile, feel free to fork the repository, make your changes, and submit a pull request. Contributions are always welcome!
 
-For a detailed guide on contributing, read the [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) file. 👀
+For a detailed guide on contributing, read the [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) file.
 
 ## License
 
 This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md) file for details.
 
-## Special Thanks
+## Special thanks
 
-Many thanks and appreciation to all these people and projects for their contributions to Pile. 💪
+Many thanks and appreciation to all these people and projects for their contributions to Pile.
 
 - 😎 [Zach Bogart](https://twitter.com/zachbogart): for the icon design.
 - 💻 [Electron react boilerplate](https://github.com/electron-react-boilerplate/electron-react-boilerplate): for making it easier to launch desktop apps.