A Little Diary

for the little things

The word diary tends to arrive with baggage: a thick book, a tiny lock, an obligation to have thoughts worth locking up. A little diary is a gentler thing. One small line about today, and you’re done being a diarist until tomorrow.

That’s Little Memory — a little diary as an iPhone app, quietly collecting little lines since 2011: over 1,000,000 of them, from over 30,000 people, featured by Apple three times.

One little line a day

At the end of the day, write a sentence about the little things: the good parking spot, the text that made you laugh, the smell of rain on the sidewalk. About fifteen seconds, even on the worst day. The big events of your life already get remembered; a little diary is where the small stuff — the actual texture of your days — gets to stay.

The little things come back

A week, a month, and a year later, your lines come back to you. That’s the quiet magic of keeping a little diary here: it turns into a time capsule on its own, and old lines return like small gifts from your past self — often on exactly the right day.

Little, private, yours

Little things tend to be the honest things, so your diary is private by default. No social media login, and support comes straight from the developer. Photos, search, streaks, and nightly backups are all along for the ride; the little tour shows everything.

If the one-line idea sounds familiar from the paper world, there are pages on the one line a day books and the five year journals too.