How Driftwood works

What happens when I capture something?

You open Driftwood and capture is already waiting — the app opens ready to receive. You type, or talk, or point the camera, or sketch. It saves as you go. That's the entire interaction.

Details that matter more than they sound:

• Voice saves every second while you're recording. Live transcription runs as you speak, and the words persist even if the app is killed mid-recording. A four-minute rambling car thought is safe the whole way through.
• Offline works for text and voice. Fragments wait on your device and drift ashore when you're back online — keeping the time you wrote them, not the time they synced. (Photos and sketches need a connection.)
• The 3am screen is a dimmed capture surface for the middle of the night. No bright white flash, nothing to configure.
• Long capture that covers three topics? Driftwood may quietly offer to split it into three fragments — your exact words, never rewritten, and only if you say yes.

Where does it all go?

Everything lands on your shore — one stream of fragments, newest first. You never have to organize it, but light structure appears on its own: each fragment gets a category (Dream, Idea, Memory, Waking Thought…) suggested automatically, and you can file, tag, reply to, or star anything. A reply to an old fragment threads under it, so a thought you keep coming back to builds a history.

How do threads and connections form?

Driftwood computes how fragments relate — the same names, the same themes, language that leans the same way — and surfaces what's drifting together: a "lately" view of what's been on your mind, and cross-time discoveries, like a January dream and a March note that share an image you didn't notice sharing. You can name a thread, or ask Eido about the whole cluster at once.

What is Eido?

Eido is the optional companion that lives in the Tide — Driftwood's conversation space. It has read your fragments, so you don't start from zero. It remembers across conversations. It shows which of your writings it's drawing on under each reply. When you push deeper, it can offer what it sees — as one reading, yours to reject, never a verdict. Full picture, including exactly what's private: the Eido page →

Can I bring in old journals?

Yes — this is one of Driftwood's favorite things to do. Photograph a notebook page and OCR turns it into text; you review it, set the real date, and it lands in your history where it belongs. A 2014 entry files under 2014. Voice memos import the same way. Tarot pulls, astrology charts, and Human Design charts can come in as images too — read into text so they become part of your searchable history.

What if I want to leave?

Export everything as a single zip: your writing as plain text and structured data, every conversation, and a media folder with every photo, recording, and sketch. Delete is just as complete — and both are gated behind your password even on an unlocked phone.