Write one line
It takes about twenty seconds, on the night it happened. There are no prompts or streaks, so you only open it when something is worth keeping.
Think back over last month. A few days probably stand out, and the rest have run together.
Write one line.
Keepsake is a private notebook for the days you want to remember.
If you share a day with someone who was there, they write their own line about it. Between you, you keep more of the evening than either of you would alone.
JanAprJulOctDec
297 days of this year are behind you. 68 are left.
How it works
Share the day with whoever was there
They write their own line about the same evening, and can add their photo of it. You get back the part you didn't write down.
Watch the year fill in
Every day you keep darkens a square, so you can see the shape of your year before you read any of it.
It stays private. Nobody reads an entry unless you share that day with them.
What were you doing last Sunday?
That was Oct 18, a week ago.
A Tuesday in May, written that night.
Tuesday14 May
Long call with Dad tonight.
He just wanted to talk.
I'd been putting it off all week.
Really glad I picked up.
Short enough to write half asleep. Read it again in a year and you’ll remember how the call felt, which a photo of the evening couldn’t tell you.
The half of the evening you didn't write down.
You
Had a few people over for dinner.
Nobody wanted to go home.
Stayed up talking long past midnight.
J.
Dinner at yours. I brought dessert.
We laughed about the old days.
Didn't want the night to end.
You each write your own line, and you can read each other’s.If they took a photo that night, it lands on the same page.
What writing it down does
2×
Your week feels twice as long.
People who note a new experience later estimate that twice as much time has passed. The brain, given a marker, stretches the day around it.
Wittmann & Lehnhoff, 2005
+23%
You get back a quarter more of the day.
Putting words to what happened, even briefly, increases the number of distinct memories you can later recall.
Pennebaker & Seagal, 1999
Denser
Your sleep finishes the job.
A few sentences before sleep strengthen how the day consolidates overnight. The same week, recalled with more texture.
Walker, 2017
Skipping days is fine. The grid only fills in for the ones you wanted to keep.
Start with today
Keepsake is invite-only while it’s early. Asking for an invite puts you on the waitlist.