Dot—
The record of a life, kept one small entry at a time.
What it is
Dot is a private app for recording a life in tiny entries — dots. A thought, a song, a book, a film, a place, a conversation. Each one takes seconds to capture.
What it becomes
Dots gather into a Life Stream. Over years, patterns emerge that no single day could show. The record grows more valuable the longer it is kept.
The six kinds
What a dot can be.
A dot is the smallest unit of a life. Six kinds cover most of one — recorded the moment they happen, in the time it takes to type a line.
01Thought 
02Song 
03Book 
04Film 
05Place 
06Conversation
The cycle
A life, not a content cycle.
Social products manage a content cycle: create, publish, consume, engage. Dot manages a life. Six verbs, in order, returning to where they began.
- Live
The day happens. Nothing is asked of you yet.
- Record
A moment becomes a dot — captured in seconds, before it fades.
- Organize
Dots take their place in the stream. No filing, no upkeep.
- Relive
Return to any day and find it intact.
- Reflect
Patterns surface: what you read, where you went, who you were.
- Live again
The record closes and sends you back out into the day.
06 → 01 — the loop closes.
The stream
Not a feed. Not a timeline.
A feed is content other people push at you. A timeline is your things sorted by date. A Life Stream is neither: it is a life, recorded as it is lived, readable in both directions.
| Property | A feed | A timeline | A Life Stream |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Everyone else | You | You |
| Order | What performs | Date | Lived time |
| Audience | The public | Whoever looks | You alone |
| Value over time | Decays | Flat | Compounds |
Time
Value that compounds.
A social post is worth most the day it is published; every day after, a little less. A dot appreciates. Today it is a small note. In a year, it is a pattern — seven Denis Villeneuve films in one month. In ten years, it is a portrait of who you are.
Privacy
Audience of one.
Dot is not a social network. There are no followers, nothing to share, no feed to perform for. Nothing you record is published anywhere. You write for one reader: the person you are becoming.
Begin
The record starts today.
A hundred thousand dots do not compose a timeline. They compose a person.