How a memory gets kept
Remembered AsYou live the whole thing. Memory tends to keep the peak and the end.
Split one experience into moments and rate how each felt and how long it lasted. The page shows the gap between how it was lived (every minute counted) and how it is likely to be kept (its most intense moment and its last one) - and lets you try a different ending.
1 The experience free
The moments, in order. Feeling: -5 awful, 0 neither, +5 wonderful. Minutes: roughly how long it lasted.
Two to ten moments. To import, press Import a list or drop a .txt file onto the list: one moment a line, as what happened, feeling, minutes.
2 The keepsake free
Drag a circle up or down (or focus it and use the arrow keys) to change how that moment felt.
3 The keepsake reading metered
One run reads your moments and the page's numbers. It names what memory is likely to lean on, what the ending does, what memory mostly leaves out, one small change to the ending, and a caption for the globe. It never changes the numbers.
Pricing as soon as the session is ready...
Sign inThe reply could not be read as a keepsake reading. Here it is as it came back:
The page's check
4 Saved keepsakes
How the page reads it
The idea comes from psychology research into how people look back on experiences: we tend to judge one by how it felt at its most intense moment and at its end, and mostly ignore how long each part lasted. It is a rule of thumb, not a law - a useful lens, not a prediction about you.
The numbers, in order. Lived: every moment's feeling weighted by its minutes, averaged. Peak: the most intense moment, high or low (a tie goes to the longer moment, then the later one). Kept: the peak and the last moment averaged - or that one feeling, when the peak is the last moment. The gap is kept minus lived: +1.0 or more reads sweeter in memory, -1.0 or less harsher in memory, anything between true to life. Everything else is roughly what memory leaves out.
The keepsake reading uses the page's numbers as given; the page lists anything in the reading that does not match them.
A thinking aid, not professional advice. It is meant for everyday experiences. If something painful or distressing still weighs on you, talking to someone you trust or someone qualified can help.