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How do you create a meaningful connection with your past self?
How do you create a meaningful connection with your past self?
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Dec 14th, 2025. Seattle.
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We reflect on the past to understand our story. Documentation supports this reflection by preserving traces of who we were we can revisit to.
Countless apps today make it easy to record everything. They make documentation effortless, but excessive.
How many photos have you taken that you’ve never looked at again?
We are constantly creating digital artifacts without much intention, piling up memories we don't reflect on, and cluttering not just our phone storage but also our attention.
We reflect on the past to understand our story. Documentation supports this reflection by preserving traces of who we were we can revisit to.
Countless apps today make it easy to record everything. They make documentation effortless, but excessive.
How many photos have you taken that you’ve never looked at again?
We are constantly creating digital artifacts without much intention, piling up memories we don't reflect on, and cluttering not just our phone storage but also our attention.
So what would it mean to create a documentation space that truly invites a meaningful connection with your past?
So what would it mean to create a documentation space that truly invites a meaningful connection with your past?
Connecting with Your Past
Connecting with Your Past
Most of our documentation tools assume time moves in a straight line. Daily journals, weekly planners, yearly wrapups. Point A to point B to point C.
Most of our documentation tools assume time moves in a straight line. Daily journals, weekly planners, yearly wrapups. Point A to point B to point C.
But that's not how we actually experience time.
But that's not how we actually experience time.
Memories resurface unexpectedly. Old feelings echo in new moments. Our experience of time is non-linear.
Memories resurface unexpectedly. Old feelings echo in new moments. Our experience of time is non-linear.
We as human beings grow non-linearly as well. As time moves forward, some parts of us change with it, while other parts stay exactly where they were. We might be confident in our careers but still carry the insecurities of our teenage selves. We might have healed from one loss while still processing another. Everyone is moving through this on their own timeline.
We as human beings grow non-linearly as well. As time moves forward, some parts of us change with it, while other parts stay exactly where they were. We might be confident in our careers but still carry the insecurities of our teenage selves. We might have healed from one loss while still processing another. Everyone is moving through this on their own timeline.
To embrace this non-linear growth, we asked ourselves:
To embrace this non-linear growth, we asked ourselves:
How can we create meaningful ways to interact with our past selves that honor both the space and time between who we were and who we are now?
How can we create meaningful ways to interact with our past selves that honor both the space and time between who we were and who we are now?
Reflection is a Beautiful Mess
Reflection is a Beautiful Mess
We're all just figuring things out here. We're all just floating particles in space… that need different kinds of space. "Head"-space when our thoughts are racing, "soul"-space when we're searching for meaning, and "I-need"-space when everything feels too close.
A reflective space should accept and explore the complexities of our reflections. A documentation space not meant to archive everything, but to let the memories move with you, allowing only what leaves a trace to remain.
We're all just figuring things out here. We're all just floating particles in space… that need different kinds of space. "Head"-space when our thoughts are racing, "soul"-space when we're searching for meaning, and "I-need"-space when everything feels too close.
A reflective space should accept and explore the complexities of our reflections. A documentation space not meant to archive everything, but to let the memories move with you, allowing only what leaves a trace to remain.
The Key is in The Art of Letting Go
The Key is in The Art of Letting Go
People often say you have a “bad memory” when you can’t remember much.
People often say you have a “bad memory” when you can’t remember much.
But is remembering as many things as possible really the point of memory?
But is remembering as many things as possible really the point of memory?
There's a Chinese poem that captures this perfectly:
"欲买桂花同载酒,终不似,少年游" Which says: "I wish to buy osmanthus flowers and share wine, but at the end, it's not the same as youthful wandering."
The physical elements remain: the flowers and the wine. But the feeling, the companions and the carefree spirit of youth are gone forever. Even with everything preserved, the moment itself cannot be retrieved.
There is a tender melancholy in this realization that some memories cannot help but fade, and some experiences are meant to be forgotten.
And that is precisely what makes them beautiful.
All feelings, all memories are transient. When we try to preserve everything, we strip experiences of their meaning. We become lost in a sea of all the moments that we cannot let go of, forgetting how to remain in touch with our present selves.
There's a Chinese poem that captures this perfectly:
"欲买桂花同载酒,终不似,少年游" Which says: "I wish to buy osmanthus flowers and share wine, but at the end, it's not the same as youthful wandering."
The physical elements remain: the flowers and the wine. But the feeling, the companions and the carefree spirit of youth are gone forever. Even with everything preserved, the moment itself cannot be retrieved.
There is a tender melancholy in this realization that some memories cannot help but fade, and some experiences are meant to be forgotten.
And that is precisely what makes them beautiful.
All feelings, all memories are transient. When we try to preserve everything, we strip experiences of their meaning. We become lost in a sea of all the moments that we cannot let go of, forgetting how to remain in touch with our present selves.
Let Time Give Memories Meaning
Let Time Give Memories Meaning
What if, instead of holding on to everything, we created a space for exploring our memories, simply by letting them be?
What if, instead of holding on to everything, we created a space for exploring our memories, simply by letting them be?
We want our documentation tool to be a companion for the waiting. Letting time work its quiet magic, trusting that the memories worth keeping will find their way back to you when you need them the most.
Welcome to Your-Space!
We want our documentation tool to be a companion for the waiting. Letting time work its quiet magic, trusting that the memories worth keeping will find their way back to you when you need them the most.
Welcome to Your-Space!