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.
Your memories come back
Write one line tonight and that’s your journaling for the day. Seven days on it turns up again, and after that it keeps turning up.
- a week later
- a month
- three months
- six months
- a year
- every year after
little memory
now
Exactly 1 year ago
Walked the long way home for no reason.
Have it come to you at an hour you pick, or leave notifications off and find them waiting the next time you open the app.
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. Cold snap. Wore the good coat. Everything smelled like woodsmoke. 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.
Oscar Wilde said that our memories are the diaries we carry around with us. I love Oscar, but the diary I carry around with me is the Little Memory.
Komalley, App Store Review
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.
