Ember

Plans and memories on one calendar

Dinner on Friday and the night you kept sit on the same calendar.

  1. Warming. A day still ahead with something on it. A place and a time, or one word you fill in later.

    warming Friday

    First date

    The plan said

    Ralph

    7:00 at Wabi House. I tried to pick a place and you said, "How about here?"

  2. Glowing. The day has been and gone, and nobody has written it up. It sits there as long as you like.

    glowing Friday, afterward

    First date

    The story

    Nothing written yet. It waits.

  3. Ember. A photo, a few words, or a voice note, and the day is banked. The product is named for this part.

    ember Friday, kept

    First date

    The neon sign at Wabi House at night

    The story

    Rosie

    We saw each other instantly as you walked in, even though it was pretty crowded.

You don't press anything for that. Time is what moves the chip.

How it works

A warming day is one you put something on for later. A restaurant and a time, or the word Lisbon on a day in June. The chip warms as the day gets closer, so the month can tell you something is soon without printing a number.

When the day passes with nothing written, the chip turns glowing and stays there. Glowing is a state, not a deadline. A mantel can carry glowing days for a year and Ember won't mention it.

An ember is a day with something in it. A photo, a line, or a voice note: any one of them is enough. That is the version the map draws, Wander turns up, and Ember Frame plays.

When the plan doesn't happen

Fade is for the plan you made and did not use. The day stops glowing and stays on the calendar.

A faded day is still yours to open and still on the map. It is left out of Ember Frame, Wander, and Highlights, because those are for days you kept. Rekindle puts it back.

Search reads the title, the story, the asides, the replies, the tags, the places and the labels you gave them, and the hearth title.

It also reads voice transcripts, and you can correct those. A day nobody wrote up is still findable by something said on it.

Anything marked sensitive stays out of the results until it is revealed, and a reply under a covered entry stays out with it.

Filter the calendar

Filters narrow what the calendar shows. By state, so you can see only the glowing days. By hearth. By what is on a day: photos, video, voice, an anthem. By whether anyone marked it a favorite.

Two of them are about what is waiting on you: days you haven't added anything to yet, and Double Take questions waiting on your answer. Nothing counts them at you.

A filtered view is a URL. Send the link and it opens on the same view.

A month, or a list

The calendar draws as a month by default. Timeline view lays the same days out as a list, which fits a phone and a busy month.

Ember remembers which one you were last in, per device.

What it doesn't do

There are no streaks, no completion scores, and no badge for a month you filled in.

A past day is never marked late, and Ember won't remind you that you've fallen behind.