Introducing Ramble: say it all, save it as pages

Why one entry was not enough

People do not talk in topics. In a two or three minute voice note you might cover a deadline at work, then a call with your mum, then a bill you cannot pay yet. Typed entries do the same thing, just more slowly.

Saved as one entry, all of that is treated as one thing. One reply has to cover three unrelated subjects, so it says something thin about each, or picks one and leaves the rest. One feeling is recorded for the whole entry, even when the work part was low and the call with your mum was good. And the patterns Dayora finds over time get blurrier, because three subjects arrive as one.

The people who talk most freely, the people voice notes are built for, were getting the weakest replies. Ramble fixes that.

How Ramble works

1. 1

   Say it all

   Talk or type through everything on your mind, without stopping to start a new entry. Nothing about writing or recording changes, and nothing is asked while the words land.

2. 2

   Press Save

   If the entry is long (roughly 350 words, about two to three minutes of talking), Dayora reads it first, and Save says "Reading it over..." for a moment. Most long entries are one thing, and they save straight away, exactly as before.

3. 3

   Choose

   If it covers separate things, a sheet rises showing each part with a short heading in your own words. Choose "Save as 3 pages" or "Save as one entry", or go back to writing with nothing saved.

4. 4

   Read each reply

   Each page is saved as its own entry and gets its own reply, about that part only. Pages after the first get a shorter reply with no suggested step, so one entry does not hand you three things to do.

Why it asks instead of splitting on its own

A lot of long entries sound like several topics and are really one. Rent, a partner's job and being exhausted can all be the same worry, told from three sides. Cutting that kind of entry apart would separate exactly what a good reply should connect.

So Dayora keeps an entry whole unless it really does cover separate things, and even then it only asks. An entry about grief, a crisis or someone's safety is meant to stay whole, so the reply sees all of it. If reading the entry fails or takes too long, it simply saves as one.

What each page gets

• Its own reply from Dayora, about that part only.
• Its own feeling. A good part and a hard part are no longer averaged into one mood.
• Its own place in Journey, and in the patterns Dayora finds over time.
• Its own people. Whoever comes up in that part is tied to that page.
• A place next to the others on Today, in the order you wrote or said them.

Your words stay as they were

The split cuts between your own sentences and keeps them exactly as they were in the writing box, in order. It never rewrites, summarises or translates anything, and it works in whatever language you write or speak.

Separately, if you typed in a rush, there is now a Tidy button above the writing box. It fixes spelling, typos, punctuation and paragraphs in your own words, never adds or summarises, and Undo puts back exactly what you had. Whether a long entry becomes pages is still only asked when you press Save.

Where to find it

• Ramble is in the new Dayora experience, on the web and in the iPhone app, on the free plan and on Plus. Some accounts still use the classic experience, which does not have it.
• It works on typed and spoken entries. Voice notes record up to 5 minutes on the free plan and up to 20 minutes with Plus.
• It is not offered on your very first entry, while AI is switched off, or when "AI enabled for this entry" is off.

What it does not do yet

• Split an entry you have already saved. Ramble asks at Save, before Dayora has written a reply, so nothing already made for an entry is thrown away.
• Let you move where a page breaks on the sheet itself. If a split is not right, go back to writing, adjust the entry and press Save again, or keep it as one entry.

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