for recording a life
a dot for every moment.
Dot is a private app for recording your life in tiny entries called dots — a thought, a song, a book, a film, a place, a conversation. Each takes a few seconds to write down. Together, over years, they become the most complete record of you that exists anywhere.
private by design · audience of one
the parts
six things a dot can be.
The smallest unit of a life is not a post. It is a moment, written down. A dot holds exactly one.
a thought
The sentence in your head you almost let slip away.
a song
Whatever was playing when the evening mattered.
a book
Finished on a slow Sunday, still turning in your mind.
a film
The one that stayed with you on the walk home.
a place
A corner of the world you want to find again.
a conversation
Words worth keeping exactly as they were said.
Capturing one takes about three seconds. No caption to compose, no audience to consider.
assembly
how a life fits together.
Social products manage a content cycle — create, publish, consume, engage. Dot manages something else entirely: a loop that begins with living and ends there too.
- live
- record
- organize
- relive
- reflect
- live again
Step 6 returns you to step 1. The app is the middle of the loop, never the point of it.
definitions
not a feed. not a timeline.
Three words that look alike and are nothing alike.
- feed, the
- Content other people push at you, ordered by whatever holds your attention longest. Dot doesn’t have one.
- timeline, the
- Your entries sorted by date. Accurate, but only an index — it tells you when, never who.
- life stream, the
- Every dot you have ever kept, flowing in one private current. The longer it runs, the more it means.
value over time
the only record that appreciates.
A social post is worth the most on the day it is published. Every day after, it decays. A dot works in the opposite direction.
Chart: the value of a dot rises steadily, from a small note today to a full portrait at ten years.
Most products consume your time. A few save it. Dot preserves it. Time isn’t the enemy here — it is part of the product.
privacy
written for an audience of one.
Dot is not a social network. There are no followers, no likes, no feed and nothing to share. Every dot you write is addressed to the only reader who will ever matter: you, later.