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. Friday happened, and nothing's written on it. It sits there, quiet, as long as you like.

    glowing Friday, afterward

    First date

    The story

    Nothing's written here yet.

  3. Ember. A photo, a few words, or a voice note, and the day is kept.

    ember Friday, kept

    First date

    The neon sign at Wabi House at night

    The story

    Rosie

    I spotted you the second you walked in, even though it was packed.

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 Friday is over 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 day the map draws, and the one Wander and Ember Frame can find.

When the plans aren't firm

Put an idea on the mantel even when you don't have the day yet. It can hold a photo and a note while the date stays open.

Ideas stay off the calendar until you pick a date. Pick a date and it becomes a plan, the same as any other day you set. Open Add and plan an idea for Someday ahead.

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 and Wander, 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, by hearth, or by what is on a day: photos, video, a voice note, an anthem, or 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 link. Send it 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.