a small thing,
made slowly.

one tuesday in march i tried to remember how the previous week went, and i could not. not the days, exactly — just the shape of them. whether it had been heavy or light. whether i had felt held or alone. i had used three different apps that year that promised to help me notice my own life, and they had each, in their own way, made me notice them instead.

so i started drawing a flower. one petal a day, in colored pencil, on the inside cover of a paperback. five colors, picked once, never tweaked. by the end of april i had a small messy bloom that told me more about the month than any chart ever had. it lived where i could see it. it asked for nothing. when i looked at it, i remembered.

petal is that, made into something other people can also use. the water lily was hand-modeled from a flower i photographed in a pond outside kyoto in 2024. the colors come from a paint set i still have. the writing area is one line, on purpose — the point is not to journal harder, it is to journal at all.

there is no team. there is no roadmap. there is no investor on a slack telling me to gamify retention. there is one person, a quiet evening hobby, and a wish that you find this useful for a while. if you do, the three dollars a month help me keep the server running and the lights low.

— flo
munich, by the window