Optimistic writing
Watch how a day gets written down — then read the whole practice, step by step.
The film below walks through the write page. Everything in it is the real app.
The practice
Write in sequence
If you're writing at night, don't start with the evening — start from breakfast. Or from last night: a nice dream you had, or just your good sleep. Then move through the day, place by place, hour by hour.
The directions
You're not alone on the empty page. Inside the editor there's a grey guide that stays under your words and follows your writing, line by line — it retires a line at a time as you write, so you always remember what you're writing toward.
Keep the photo
Add a photo to your entry and it stays with that day, to remember it later. You can open it full size from the journal.
The time strip
If remembering in order is hard, turn on the time strip in preferences — it's off by default. Your last 24 hours stand beside the editor as a strip of colour, from this time yesterday to now. Tap it to turn the day around: write from now back to yesterday, or from yesterday up to now. Either way — keep the sequence.
The questions about your day
While you write, Weave asks small questions about ordinary things — what did you eat, who did you meet, what small thing went well. They're just reminders. Answer the ones that bring something back, and put the rest away.
Your own language
We mean that literally — the words that calm you, your own terms, your own silly jokes, laughing at your own day. We ask only one thing: keep it purely positive.
A genuinely bad day?
We don't believe in that here. Did you eat? Did you feel any cold breeze, or some warmth? Did you have one positive conversation? We document the smallest things. Maybe you can't write as much as on other days — but there is always something good in a day. There's also a theme for this: expanding to the near past or future — yesterday's good things, or your good expectations about tomorrow. And for the bad moments themselves, expressive writing is made exactly for that.
Themes and topics
Themes
Next to your writing there's the rail — your themes. It starts empty, on purpose. A theme is a direction: the best way to remember to write toward something. Browse the themes page and pick the ones that fit you. Some themes come from therapeutic practices, studied and tested in experiments. Others are common ways of thinking that people use to face their daily life. If you have one of your own, suggest it to us.
Topics
A topic is something you want to write about every day — to build a habit, or to make your view more positive about something. Or someone. Maybe lately you only notice what annoys you about someone you see daily: add them as a topic, and write the positive things they actually did. Maybe you want to keep exercising: add a topic and write what went well in the exercise. A topic can also be about something not yet sure — a change of job, a house, a city. Write your positive expectations anyway. Themes and topics can always change, as your life changes.
The practice themes
A few themes belong to the practice itself, and we encourage everyone to keep them: reframing some negative things positively, writing about a thought and not only an event, something I did well, and the best three things.
Analysis, your journal, and safety
Make the page yours
Hide the rail from the write page, or from preferences. The same goes for everything around the editor — the questions, the directions, the time strip. Even the guide is yours to change: write your own directions in preferences, one idea per line.
Minutes, words, and the gentle read
Your minutes lead, because minutes are what the practice asks from you — and the timer only counts while you're actually writing. Words come on their own. When you're done, the analyse button gives your entry a gentle read: how positive you were, and which lines slipped. In preferences you can also make every save analyse itself.
The journal
After you save, your writing lives in the journal — behind your fingerprint, your face, or a password. Safer than your old diary. You remember who read that one.
Built to be safe
Names, emails, and personal details are masked before anything leaves your device for analysis — the model never knows who wrote, or who it's about. And at save time you choose how each entry is stored, from ordinary encryption to a key only you hold. The full story is on the privacy page.