Writing & People
Everything in Ember flows from writing. Type the day as it happened, mention the people in it, and the connections build themselves — no forms, no fields to fill in.
The editor
Ember's editor is plain and calm, with light Markdown-style formatting. Write headings, lists, and quotes as you would anywhere. You can attach photos, and embed a song from the Apple Music catalog to mark a moment.
Scale just the writing area with ⌘= / ⌘−, and reset with ⌘0 — this changes the editor only, not the rest of the app. To scale the whole interface, see Themes & Appearance.
Mentioning people with @
Type @ and start a name. Ember suggests matching people (including nicknames); pick one, or create a new person without leaving the entry. Once mentioned, the entry belongs to that person forever — it appears on their page automatically.
Tags, worlds, and stories inline
While writing, you can reference more than people:
@name— a person#tag— a tag to group entries by theme~world— the world a moment belongs to&story— a story to continue across time
These are covered in depth in Worlds, Stories & Tags.
Logging an interaction
Sometimes you want to remember a moment without writing a full entry — a call, a dinner, a long walk. Press ⌘L to quick-log an interaction: pick the people, the medium (call, text, in person…), and add an optional note.
Interactions count as contact, so they keep a relationship feeling tended (see Feed, Nudge & the Graph). Ember is not a CRM, though — log only what you want to remember.
A person's page
Open anyone to see everything you've ever written about them: journal entries, shared stories, logged interactions, and the details you've added — nicknames, birthday, how you met, the worlds they live in. It's the handprint beside a handprint — a life with someone, in one place.
Finding anything
Press ⌘K to search across every entry, person, story, and tag. Search runs entirely on your device — your queries never leave it. See Searching Your Archive for searching by person, time, and place.