Ordinary Signs

The reply came in later than you'd have chosen. You read it, you answered it, and you put the phone down. A bit later you noticed what you had actually been thinking about, and it wasn't the message — it was the two hours before it. Your system files the alarms in detail and lets the calm evenings go unrecorded, so the evidence of change can end up kept by the part of you least likely to notice it. This one-page guide is somewhere to enter that evidence by hand.

What's inside

A single page for noticing the moments your system doesn't file.

• Six signs that tend to go unrecorded — the delay that isn't a fight, the shorter recovery, naming it mid-moment, asking cheaply, not knowing for a while, their mood staying theirs
• One moment I didn't check — the message not sent, the face not read, the hour not counted
• What I did instead — not what you avoided, what the time actually held
• What the evening was like — plainly, no conclusion required
• A reflection line for what you noticed

Alarm is loud and memorable. Calm generates no signal at all.

The prompts are fillable — type straight into the page on your phone or laptop, and save it.