in.between

Notes

How in.between holds what the night gives you — and how every room in the house works. Write. She sits with you. The nights start to file themselves.

Start here

Start hereGo from the door to your first night in the houseYour first weekWhat the first seven days usually feel likeWhen you remember almost nothingA single image is enough to open the doorWho sits with youNalani is the companion. That is the whole introduction.

What you can do in the house

Writing a nightHow a journal starts, and how it stays one nightImagineA still made from the night, not a portrait of anyoneParadigmThe map — pins, threads, the origin at the centerTrackingThe calendar of nights you actually wroteSpeaking with NalaniWhen talking is closer than typingFoldersRooms you name for the nights that belong together

More resources

TravelerThe free weekly room every account starts inA private roomThere is no audience hereIf the night is heavyShe stays. She also points you toward a person.JourneyHow the house was built, night by nightPricingThe writing rooms, and what each one holdsDownloadsTake the house with you

Every note, room by room

All 63 notes, in the order the house is arranged — starting at the door and working inward.

Get started

From the door to your first night. The composer, first lines for the mornings the night is gone, and when a fragment is its own entry.

The rooms

Every room in the house — Journals and Folders, the Index, Clues, Tracking, Paradigm, Markers, Sleep, and the stills.

Companion

Nalani: who she is, how she talks, what she remembers, and what changes when you speak instead of type.

The house

What in.between is not. No feed, no audience, no verdict — and what happens to a night you decide to delete.

On the go

Phone, desk, and the one account between them. Naming a journal, finding it again, and picking a thread back up.

Staying

Your account, the free Traveler room, the larger writing rooms, spoken minutes, and where the bills live.

About the Notes

Notes is the written manual for in.between, a private dream journal. It is 63 short pages, each about a single thing — writing a night down, reading it back weeks later, or living with what the nights turn out to keep returning to. There is no order you have to follow. Open the one that matches the question you actually have.

What in.between is

in.between is a private dream journal for the hour after waking. You write the night down — typed into the composer, or spoken out loud with Nalani, the companion who sits with you — and the house files it. Journals hold the nights themselves. Tracking is the calendar of the nights you actually wrote. The Index collects the people, places, weather and feelings a night leaves behind. Paradigm is the map, where nights become pins and the threads between them. Markers is the wall of stills. Companion is Nalani out loud. Each of those rooms has its own notes below.

How the notes are organised

Every note belongs to one of six groups, and both the sidebar and the index above follow the same order — the door first, then the rooms, then the things you only wonder about once you have been here a while.

  • Get started — 11 notes on the first night: the composer, starters for the mornings you remember almost nothing, fragments, and when to open a new entry.
  • The rooms — 18 notes, one room at a time. Pictures and Imagine, the Index and what fills it, Clues, Tracking, Paradigm and its pins and threads, Markers, Folders, Sleep.
  • Companion — 9 notes on Nalani: how she talks, why she asks one question at a time, what she remembers, and how a spoken night ends.
  • The house — 9 notes on what this is not. No feed, no audience, not therapy, and what happens when you delete a night.
  • On the go — 9 notes on phone, desk, and one account between them, plus naming and finding a night again.
  • Staying — 7 notes on your account, plans, the free Traveler room, the larger writing rooms, spoken minutes, and bills.

What the notes will not tell you

There is no dream dictionary here, and no note that tells you what a symbol means. Nalani is a companion, not a clinic and not a verdict — she will sit with a heavy night, and she will also point you toward a real person. There is no feed, no audience, and nothing here is scored. Quiet nights count; the house is built for return, not for a streak.

Who they are for

Two kinds of reader. Someone who just opened the door and wants to know what to type at 4am when a single image is all that is left — those notes are in Get started. And someone months in who wants to know why a thread appeared on the map, what fills the Index, or what happens to spoken minutes when they change writing rooms. Most people arrive on one note from a search, read it, and leave. That is what the notes are shaped for.

Where to read them

in.between runs in the browser on both phone and desktop, and there is a signed Mac app for people who want it in the Dock. The iPhone app is on the App Store — same house, same account, in your pocket.

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