Memories
Memories sits on your year: a page of questions about how the year actually went, answered in your own words. Every question can be renamed, rewritten or replaced with one of your own.
- Answer a promptWrite under it. Nothing closes and nothing is ever due.
- Ask your ownThe last card on the page: name it, colour it.
- Pick the formatIn words, or a picture only. Ruled lines are a switch.
- Add a photo+ photo in a card's head, beside what you wrote.
- Remove oneThe × on the card. Its answer goes with it.
- Carry themLast year's questions are offered back. The answers stay with the year they were written in.
Where you'll find it
On the year, as its third view, beside the calendar and the plan.
The calendar is the shape of the year and Plan is what it's for. This is the reading you take once there's enough of it behind you to say.
The month deliberately doesn't have one yet. Looking back needs distance, and what the month gets instead is a day-by-day rating strip, asked while the days are still in reach.
Answering a memory card
Each card is a question ("Places," say, with "that stayed with me" leaning in underneath) and an open space for whatever you want to say back. Just start typing in it. That's the whole of answering one, and it saves as you look away.
Nothing is written until you type. The cards offered on a fresh year are drawn with a dashed edge. Write your first sentence into one and the card is kept, question and answer together; leave it alone and it stays as blank as it was.
The small ruled mark in a card's head turns the lines behind your writing on and off: ruled for a page of prose, unruled for a loose list of names. Throw it halfway through if you like.
Adding your own question
The last card on the page is always the empty one, headed "Your own prompt", on a phone as well as at a desk.
- The question in the top box. Enter, or the + beside it, files it.
- The half-sentence under it, optional, in the handwritten aside: "that stayed with me", "nobody clapped for".
- A colour appears once there is a name to attach it to. Skip it and the card uses the page's own paper, like most cards do.
The two formats: in words, or a picture only
The two chips on the new-prompt card choose what kind of card you're making, and it's the one thing about a card that can't be changed afterwards:
- in words: a question with a box to write in, as much or as little as you like. This is the ordinary one.
- a picture only: just a frame and no words at all, for a year that's better remembered in one photograph than in a paragraph.
+ photo in a card's head adds a frame to a card written in words, so an answer can have a picture beside it.
Asking your own question, answering it, and adding a photo
Rewriting, reordering and removing a card
- Rewrite the question by clicking it. The same form holds its aside and its colour, on a phone as well as at a desk.
- Reorder by dragging a card from the grip at the head of its line.
- Remove with the × at the end of the card's head. It's always visible rather than appearing on hover, so you never have to hunt for it.
Removing a card takes its answer with it, since the question and what you wrote under it are one card. The same × on a card you were merely offered simply sets the suggestion aside, with nothing written and nothing lost.
Three words for the year
Three small boxes sit above everything else, headed "Three words for" the year you're reading: the whole of it in three words of your own.
They're the one part of the page you can't rename, recolour or remove, so the page has a shape before you've written anything into the questions below.
No summaries, no scores
There's no engine totting up your busiest month or your longest streak. What's here is a set of questions and whatever you choose to write under them.
a summary is a judgement whether it means to be or notNothing closes, ever
Last year's page stays as open as this year's. A year ending doesn't close its page, and remembering March while you're standing in August is what this page is for.
At the top, a small figure: "6 of 14 kept". It counts what you've answered, never what you haven't: nothing goes amber and nothing is marked incomplete.
Questions about memories
The details, for when you want them. Nothing here is required reading.Can I ask my own question?
Yes. A card at the end of the run lets you write a new one: name it, colour it if you like, and choose whether it's ruled. It's yours from then on, to rename, restyle or remove whenever.
Where did the first questions come from?
They're Planye's own suggestions, offered as drafts until you answer them. Answering one is what keeps it, and removing one stops it being suggested.
Do my questions carry into next year? What about the answers?
The question carries, the answer never does. Ask "Places that stayed with me" again next year and the card comes back empty: "Lisbon, in the rain" stays with the year you wrote it in.
Opening next year offers back the name, the colour and whether it's ruled, and nothing you actually wrote.
I renamed a carried question and it stopped being offered. Why?
Carrying forward is matched by name, so a rename reads as a genuinely different question, which it usually is. Type the original name again and the old one is back.
What happens if I remove a question?
Its answer goes with it, since the question and what you wrote under it are one card.
Is there a Memories page for the month?
Not yet. Looking back needs distance, and a month asked the same questions a fortnight after it ended would mostly get shrugs. What the month has instead is the rating strip under its plan. See Plan.
How is this different from the journal?
The journal is a page per day, written as the day goes. Memories is a page per year, written from a distance, and it asks questions rather than leaving you a blank sheet. See Journaling.