How it works
A sentence at a time.
Nothing here asks you to journal. A journal is a project, and a project is another thing to be behind on. This is one line and one number, in the moment it occurs to you.
In the week
Something happens on a Tuesday. You write one line and one number, and put your phone away.
- One sentence and a number out of ten. Under fifteen seconds.
- Works with no signal. It saves to your phone first and syncs later.
- Or say it out loud, if typing is more than you have in you.
The day before
Ten minutes, the evening before your session. The week comes back loudest first, and you choose what is going in.
- Loudest first, not newest first. The Tuesday you half-forgot comes back.
- Keep it or set it aside. Setting aside is not deleting.
- Top five above the line, in your order. Nothing re-sorts what you chose.
In the room, and after
You walk in with a page instead of a blank. The first ten minutes are not spent remembering why you wanted the hour.
- Bring it on your phone, printed, or as a PDF.
- Or send a link that expires, and that you can withdraw at any moment.
- Anything you commit to comes back once, gently, and never as a failure.
Built around your sessions.
Tell it when you usually go. Each session gets a page of its own: what you wrote for it, where getting ready stands, and afterwards, the line you kept.
- Weekly, every two weeks, monthly, or one at a time.
- Move one session or skip it. The rest of the schedule stays put.
- A month at a glance, with the writing between your sessions.
What you end up holding.
One page, in your words and your order. Nothing on it is paraphrased, summarized or softened, and nothing on it tells you what any of it means.
Session prep
Maya
Thursday, March 14 · Mar 7 – Mar 14 · 13 entries
To talk about
- 1The thing my mother said on the phone on Sunday. I keep replaying it.9
- 2I said yes to the extra project again and I do not know why.7
- 3Slept four hours Tuesday. Not anxious exactly. Just awake.6
- 4Good Thursday. Worth saying that out loud for once.3
What came up
Hard to bring up
I think I have been agreeing with you in sessions to be done with the subject.
Months later, if you stay
Progress in therapy is nearly invisible from the inside. The app can show you that conversations about your mother averaged 8.2 in March and 5.1 in August, and it stops there. It does not say improving, it does not say worse, and it never grades a direction. That reading is yours and your therapist’s to make.
Questions people ask.
What if I do not write anything for a week?
Nothing happens. There are no streaks, no reminders about how long it has been, and no catch-up prompt when you come back. The page you take to your next session is made from whatever is there, and a quiet week is a real answer about a week.
Do I have to rate everything out of ten?
Yes, and it is meant to be a reflex rather than a judgement. One to ten is how LOUD the thing was, not how bad or how serious it is. There are no labels on the middle numbers, because naming the midpoint makes people deliberate over a figure that should take a second.
Does it work without signal?
Yes. Everything is written to your phone first and syncs when it can. An entry you had to work up to at 2am on one bar is one you will not write twice, so it is never left to a request that might fail.
Can I say it out loud instead of typing?
Yes, using the microphone on your own keyboard, which types for you without the words leaving your phone. We deliberately do not run our own dictation, because ours would have to send the recording somewhere and your keyboard does not.
What does my therapist actually see?
One page: your lines, in your order, word for word. They need no account and there is no signup wall. The link expires -- twenty four hours, a week, two weeks or a month, never permanently -- and you can withdraw it at any moment, which stops it working immediately. You can see whether it was opened, and nothing more specific than that.
Who else can read what I write?
Nobody. Nothing is monitored, nothing you write is used to train anything, and nothing you write is sent to any outside service. There is no setting for this because there is nothing to switch off.
Some of this product is what it refuses. It never tells you what you have, nothing is monitored, nothing you write trains anything, and there is no streak to keep up. Those are lines in the specification the app is built from, not features we have not got to.
How each of those is actually enforcedWrite one line about today.
Write as much as you like and prepare your first page before anything asks for a card, and what you have written stays yours and stays readable either way.
