a morning pages app

shizumu is a morning pages app in the plainest sense: every morning the page is empty, and nothing on it asks you anything.

why the empty page is the point

morning pages work because nobody reads them, including you. three pages of whatever is there, then the day. a screen that keeps yesterday's pages in front of you turns the practice into a record, and a record makes you write for a reader. shizumu starts every day on an empty page. yesterday is in memory, searchable, and it stays out of the way unless you go and look.

no prompt, no timer, no count. the page does not know it is morning. the best morning pages app is the one with the least on it, and that is a thing this app can honestly claim.

what the page does when something surfaces

most of the three pages are fuel. once in a while a sentence turns out to matter. you pin it, and it becomes a pointer back into that morning's page. put the page on a trail, the book, the decision you are circling, and the pins you kept there come back the next time you open that trail. the morning pages journal app people describe on reddit is a diary with a ritual; this is a page with a way back.

on a phone, a laptop, or both

a morning pages app on android for the sofa and the same app on linux or windows for the desk. the writing stays on the device you wrote it on unless you turn sync on, and sync is end-to-end encrypted. people searching morning pages apple will find the app is not on mac or iphone yet; both are on the way, and a browser version runs today.

try it tomorrow morning

the whole app runs in your browser with a few weeks of writing already in it: try it. the page you open will be empty. that is the feature.

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