keep
your days.
the voice journal you'll actually keep.
transcribed on your phone. the audio never leaves it.
try to remember last tuesday. really try.
already fuzzy, isn't it?
you just talk.
like catching a friend up on your day. guided journals and routines keep you writing without the blank page, so last tuesday's still there when you go looking for it.
what's today about?
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.Annie Dillard
a minute in the morning, so you walk in already knowing what today's for.
how'd it go?
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.Anaïs Nin
it comes back in your words, not a stranger's. cleaned up, nothing invented.
kept,
not lost.
each day you talk becomes an entry you keep. they pile up, and one day it's the journal you never got around to writing.
a year of
ordinary days.
for anyone who's thought "I should write this down."
you've got a running commentary in your head, and you wish more of it stuck. you'd rather talk than stare down a blank page. that's exactly who this is for.
why I made this.
what scared me was forgetting. not just the ordinary days. the big things too. what I got done, the people I met, stretches of time I'd want back and can't get to.
so I keep a journal, a google doc. I write in it maybe once a month, still today, because by the time I sit down, I have to reconstruct two whole weeks from memory just to figure out what mattered. that's the part that stops me, every time.
and it nagged at me that the doc is the thing under everything else. whatever you're trying to do next, it runs on being able to hold onto what happened and pick it up tomorrow.
so I made the version I'd actually keep. a dozen wrong turns later, it comes out simple. you talk for a minute while the day's still fresh, so there's nothing to reconstruct and no blank page to fill, and it writes the day back in your own voice, not some stranger who skimmed it. that's the whole thing.
— Alan
be there when it lands.
we'll email you the day it lands. but first, I want to hear from the people I'm building this for. one question.
kept.
you're on the list. p.s. I read every note — it's the whole reason I asked.
