Why it matters
We capture more of life
than ever.
Photos. Places. Activities. Plans. Conversations.
But more captured does not mean more remembered.
Most of it disappears into camera rolls, apps and histories we rarely return to.
Paths is built for what you choose to keep.
The gap
Life is spread across too many places.
What you did lives in one app, where you went in another, the photographs somewhere else again. The people and the reason you went are usually nowhere at all.
Why keep it
A day you keep is a day you get back.
You forget more than you think
Not the big days. The ordinary ones, which turn out to be most of them. A record you made on purpose is the only kind that survives.
The people were the point
Who you were with is the part no app records and the first part to go. Kept with the day, it is still there in ten years.
It gets better with time
One day is a note to yourself. A year of them is a season you can see the shape of, and ten is a life you can walk back through.
Keep more of the life you live.