April 28, 2026
#kids #workEli walked into my office, set down a peanut butter sandwich on a paper towel, said “this is for you because you’re working too much,” and walked out. He’s six. The sandwich was crooked. I ate the whole thing.
A daily journal that takes thirty seconds.
One small story a day.
Most of life slips by uncatalogued. By Wednesday you've already forgotten what made Sunday Sunday. Save Your Days is a quiet daily ritual for the moments that would otherwise be lost — one sentence at the end of the day, kept.
No credit card. No app store. Works on your phone tonight.
Entries look like this
A single page per date. Hashtags if you want them. It auto-saves while you write. Tomorrow you'll have one more.
01
Open today's page
It's already there. The date is the title. There's nothing to configure, no notebook to choose.
02
Save the moment
One sentence is enough. Type a hashtag inline if it helps you find it later. The page saves itself.
03
Watch the archive grow
A year from now, search "the move" and read every entry that touched it. Or generate an AI yearly review of any stretch and read it back.
Why one a day
The first week, you save what you'd remember anyway. By month two, you start noticing what you didn't see before.
Storyteller Matthew Dicks calls it Homework for Life: every day, find the small moment that — if today were the only day you remembered — you'd want to keep. Then write it down.
Try it for two weeks and the practice changes how you spend your time. The archive is a side effect. But it turns out the archive is everything.
What's inside
A page per day
Auto-saves while you write. A streak counter keeps your run visible. A year heatmap shows every day on a single screen.
Hashtag organization
Inline. Pull every #kids entry, every #travel, every #work-was-hard.
Search every word
Full-text. Find the day you wrote about the diner in Spokane, instantly.
AI yearly review
Read any date range and let it reflect back what it saw — people, themes, what you carried, what changed.
Version history
Every edit kept. Restore any prior draft, anytime.
Backups, exports, push reminders
Nightly automated backups. Markdown or JSON export anytime. PWA on iPhone & Android.
On your phone
iPhone
Open saveyourdays.com in Safari. Tap the Share icon, then Add to Home Screen. It opens like a real app — full-screen, your own icon, push notifications if you want them.
Android
Open in Chrome. Most phones show an Install prompt at the bottom; if not, the three-dot menu has Install app. Same full-screen experience, same notifications.
No app store, no review queue, no 30% cut. Just the website, installed as an app.
Pricing
$29 a year. Or, you know, eight cents a day.
30 days free up front, no card required. Cancel anytime — your entries come with you, exported as Markdown or JSON.