how annary works

seven steps through annary – what you write, and what grows from it.

diary

a few notes a day, one line each. you can emphasise words and add a photo to a line.

10.06.2026wednesday
12.06.2026friday
14.06.2026sunday

people

a + marks a person. she gets her own page – a memory for your people grows on the side.

- coffee with +anna in the afternoon - +timo dropped by - called +clara in the evening
12.06.2026friday

places

an @ marks a place. it gets its own page too – with everything that happened there.

- lunch at the @old-anchor - a walk down at the @harbour - worked from @home in the evening
12.06.2026friday

kind of contact

after a name, a : says how it was: you met, called, wrote, thought of them or dreamt of them.

- ran into +anna in town - called +timo:c in the evening - sent +ben:t a message - thought of +clara:o all day - dreamt of +david:d last night
12.06.2026friday

mood

five faces for a day. the statistics later show how your mood connects with the people and places around you.

12.06.2026friday
12todayAnna
mood per section
12.06.2026friday

topics

topics are words that keep coming back. you collect them under one name — “sport” may listen to running, gym and swimming. a person or place can trigger a topic too, even without the word.

in the diary - ran in the morning - jogged after work - a short race
topics 🏃3 jogging 4 days ago

finding again

search sits on top of every page – menu entry or shortcut. every person, place and topic also has its own page with all mentions, patterns and years at a glance.

A Anna 24 days O Old Anchor 9 visits 🏃12 jogging 4 days ago harbour 2 days 12.06.2026 03.05.2026

now you

the rest happens by itself: write a few lines, and the pages fill up.

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