PIA
A diary for the twenty-first century.
A paper diary is a record. It is rarely a tool, because nothing about it helps you look across years at once.
PIA keeps the writing habit and adds the part that was always missing: longitudinal analysis. Ideas that keep resurfacing, positions that have quietly reversed, the concerns of one particular winter — these become things you can actually look at rather than half-remember.
It runs on a personal machine rather than somebody else’s servers, which is the point. A diary is the last thing that should live in someone else’s cloud. Only the capture app reaches beyond the desktop.
It is genuinely in daily use, but it is not a product you can sign up for.
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These all began as a job that kept repeating. If something in your week fits that description, it is worth a conversation.