How it works
Write a little. Get something kind back. Let weeks do the rest.
The loop
Three small things, every day.
- Slept badly, but the walk to work with Sam reset me, then the 3pm meeting drained everything.
01
Write a few lines
Type or dictate a sentence or three about your day. No prompts to fill in, no streaks to protect. A line is enough.
It sounds like the walk with Sam gave the day a real lift, even after a short night. The 3pm meeting seems to have taken a lot, so it makes sense if you feel spent tonight.
What is it about a walk with Sam that helps you reset?
02
It reflects, then asks one good question
Daystrata reads gently and says back what it noticed in a sentence or two, tags mood, energy and themes, and asks one question worth sitting with. Then it draws the entry as a stratum.
Sundays carried work worry three weeks running.
from Sep 6, Sep 13, Sep 20
03
Your patterns appear over weeks
Layers stack into a month. Once there is enough to go on, it surfaces patterns in plain language, and every pattern points to the entries it came from.
Over time
What to expect, and when.
Day 1
You write a line. It reflects what it noticed, tags mood, energy and themes, asks one question, and draws your first stratum.
Week 1
Seven layers stack into the beginning of a month. You start to see which days run warm and which run heavy, by color alone.
Week 3
With enough entries, the first weekly report can find something: an activity and your energy moving together, or a weekday that keeps carrying the same worry.
Month 1
A full column of strata. The monthly report names a handful of patterns, each citing the days it came from. Print the month as a poster if you like.
Month 6
Patterns across months: what changed, what stayed. On Archive, deeper reports and the year as one poster.
Principles
What it will and will not do.
It will
- Reflect what it noticed in one or two kind sentences.
- Ask one question, usually about what helped.
- Cite your own entries for every pattern it reports.
- Draw every entry the same way every time, from its own seed.
It will not
- Diagnose, label you, or give medical advice. It is a reflection tool, not therapy.
- Analyze an entry that shows signs of crisis. It shows support resources instead.
- Train on, share, or sell what you write.
- Nag you with streaks. Skipped days are just thin air between layers.