Find it again

Looks through the days you've kept, starting with this date in other years.

The storefront of Olde Tyme Grocery, with a snowball sign on the sidewalk

Olde Tyme Grocery

Olde Tyme Grocery in New Orleans

Fri, Jun 10, 2022

Ate the po boys on the curb. Messy, and worth doing again.

Photo by RalphStory by Rosie

One thing Wander turned up, opened the way any other day opens.

How it works

Wander is a tab you open. With notifications on, you also get one line on the date a day you kept comes around again, like "Five years ago today: The long way home." Wander never counts how long it has been since you last opened it.

What it turns up is a real memory, opened the way any other day opens. Nothing about the day changes because Wander found it.

The path it takes

Wander looks at the same date in other years before anything else.

If that date is empty it widens to the days around it, then further back. It only ever lands on a day you kept: faded days, doused days, and anything private to someone else are not in the pool.

On this day, then wider

On this day is the same date in other years. If that date is quiet, Around this date and More to wander go further out.

A favorite is likelier to show, and so is a place you keep going back to. They rank the list. They do not fill it.

A hearth turns up as itself: the whole run of days, not one photo from it.

What it doesn't do

It doesn't rank your memories or decide which year was your best.

Nothing turns up from a memory you faded or doused. A memory private to you stays yours: nobody else on the mantel wanders into it.