how it works.
five ideas. that is the whole app — there is nothing hidden behind them.
1 · record one moment
one honest line about something that happened. ten seconds, no forms, no rating how you feel about it out of five. it can be the smallest possible version of showing up — turning up and doing almost nothing still counts, because you turned up.
the days it went the other way go in the same way, in plain grey — no red, no warning, no broken chain, no lecture. a regression is recorded the same as anything else. the app is not working out whether you were good. it is keeping what you were honest about.
2 · threads are parts of your life
writing, running, sleep, spending, mood — anything you want a history of. each keeps its own list and its own clock, so you can look at one thing and see the whole story of it. threads do not end.
the first time you start one, the app asks are you building this, reducing it, or just noticing it? it matters because the same number means different things depending on the answer — and for something you are noticing, it means nothing at all, which is allowed.
then it asks when did this last happen? guess roughly, or skip it. it never asks again, and that one answer is what makes the next part work. come back to something you are building after two years away and the gap becomes the fact — a RESUMED mark that stays in your history for good. you never have to explain the two years. the number already did.
for something you are reducing it works the other way round. the time since you last did it is time you have already held, so the clock starts back there and the moment is marked HELD — six months is six months, whatever day you installed the app. slip a week later and it still reads held 6mo, not held 7d, because that is what happened.
3 · issues are things that end
most things stay threads. an issue is something you want to reach a resolution on — open one when there is an end you can imagine, and close it when you get there. closing is deliberate: you press and hold. the history stays either way.
4 · the chapter writes itself
you do not have to log gaps, and you do not have to keep a second journal. between chapters the app gathers what you recorded, and quiet time appears on its own as a duration. no telling off, no sad face — just the number of days.
a stretch with nothing in it is still a stretch. the app only ever reports what you wrote down, never what it thinks you did.
5 · name the chapter
when a stretch of time feels finished, you look at what was recorded, add anything the log missed, and name it — the quiet year, finding structure. the app supplies the evidence. you supply the meaning.
do that for a year and it reads back as a version history of your life: five lines you can actually read, instead of a number that went up and down.
things it will never do
- buzz you, remind you or nag you. it never messages you first.
- give you a score, a grade or a rank.
- show anything to anyone else. there is no feed and no sharing.
- delete or tidy up your history.
- show your words to another person, sell them, or train anything on them.
your entries are scrambled on your phone before any backup leaves it. we do keep the key, attached to your account, so a new phone can get your history back — the privacy page explains exactly what that means.