Worlds, Stories & Tags
Life isn't linear, and your memory shouldn't be either. Worlds, stories, and tags are the three ways you give shape to what you write — and Ember never connects anything for you. You decide what belongs together.
Worlds
A world is a life context — Work, Family, Personal, College, the friend from a train platform in 2022. People live in one or more worlds, each colour-coded so the graph and pages stay readable at a glance.
Worlds also configure how relationships fade. Each world has a decay threshold — the stretch of quiet after which someone in it starts to feel out of touch. A person can override it, and if someone lives in several worlds, Ember resolves the threshold using the rule you choose (least strict, most strict, or a custom value). See Feed, Nudge & the Graph for how fading works.
Stories
A story is a narrative you weave from entries across time — the climbing seasons, a launch sprint, Diwali at home. A single story can hold many chapters and several people, spanning years.
- Continue a story from the editor by typing
&and its name, or create one with the command palette. - Add a cover photo to give the story a face on its page.
- Stories are always something you build deliberately — Ember never groups entries into a story on its own.
Which one should I use?
- Reach for a world when it's about who and the rhythm of contact — a group of people you tend together.
- Reach for a story when it's about a thread through time — connected moments you want to read as one arc.
- Reach for a tag when it's about a theme — a feeling or subject that recurs anywhere.