The Ascent — a week, a month, a year

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The Ascent is your journal seen from four distances:

• Week — close enough to remember the days.
• Month.
• Season — a quarter of the year. Far enough that a season starts to have edges.
• Year.

Move between them and the same life resolves differently, the further back you stand.

What you’ll find at each height

Arcs — the things that ran through the period rather than happening once.

Tensions — the places where two things you wrote sat against each other. Not resolved for you, just noticed.

A refrain — a line you wrote, quoted exactly, that carried the period.

Where it comes from

Everything here is built from your own entries. The counting, the dating, the grouping — all worked out directly from your entries. The only choice Dayspring makes is which of your sentences to show you, and it quotes them word for word.

It won’t tell you what your year meant. It shows you your year and lets you be the one who understands it.

It needs a little time

A week needs a few entries to be worth looking at; a year needs a year. If a height looks thin, it’s usually because there isn’t much there yet rather than because something is broken.

If you’ve imported an old journal, your history gets processed in the background after the import — so the longer views may take a little while to fill in the first time. It carries on without you.