A hard day
When things are hard the app does less, not more. It does not force analysis or pretend to be a therapist — but it does have somewhere to take you.
- 01Today
You talk about something heavy. The recording ends the way it always does — no alarm, no lecture. An ordinary hard day is still an ordinary journal: the entry stays and usually nothing replies.
- 02Journal
If, though, you say something that sounds like a threat to your life, Ondela tries to recognise it and does less, not more: the entry stays in the Journal, flagged, but goes no further — not to the Portrait, not to the Echo. On the Today screen, instead of an Echo, you see a short message and a support card with the numbers of people who can help right now. It is a program and it can be wrong.
- 03Meditations
Below that line, when the Echo speaks — because the entry sounds intense or a subject keeps returning — an offer of a breathing moment appears for a short while after saving: a brief meditation woven from your own words. It comes out of your credit pool, and you can ignore it.
- 04Conversations
If you want to go further, you start a conversation from that entry. The guide knows the context, so you do not start from nothing.
- 05Threads
When the subject keeps returning it stops being one bad day and becomes a thread you return to on purpose. You can stay here.
How the parts connect
Start
- Today
The home screen: the place you speak from, and whatever has come back to you since your last visit.
- Journal
All your entries in full, in the order they were made. Nothing here is ever overwritten.
Mirror
What the system notices in you — hypotheses, not verdicts.
- Echo
Reflection on your entries: a warm look at the day, a calmer one at the week.
- Portrait
What settled out of those days into a picture of you, told in paragraphs — each with its evidence underneath.
Working on yourself
Where you can actually do something with what you have recorded.
- Conversationsoptional part
Sessions with a guide — start a new one, return to one you left, or simply talk about what is hard.
- Threadsoptional part
Lasting themes you keep returning to, with progress told in plain words.
- Processoptional part
The map of the work as the guide sees it: what the guide understands so far, what the plan is, what you agreed on.
- To dooptional part
Commitments you made to yourself inside your entries — to look over and tick off.
Meditations
Guided recordings woven from whatever you have been carrying lately.
- Meditationsoptional part
The recordings you have, and making a new one when you feel the need.
- Downloads
Recordings saved on this device — they stay when there is no connection.
- →Journal·the entry is kept in full
- →Meditations·a breathing moment when you need one
- →Echo·the day and the week come back as reflection
- →Portrait·what repeats settles into the picture
- →Conversations·"let's work on this" — straight from an entry
- →To do·promises made to yourself in an entry
- →Portrait·a pattern you accept becomes an observation
- →Conversations·the guide knows the Portrait before a session
- →Threads·lasting themes grow out of the conversations
- →Process·sessions feed the map of the work
- →To do·what you agreed to do
- →Downloads·saved on the device