How Mark
started.

I wanted something I would actually use.

I’d been journaling for a while, and I had my rituals: the gym, meditation, yoga, reading, getting out for a hike. But they lived in two different places. My journal was in one app and everything else was in my head or on a list somewhere. And the more I thought about it, the more that felt wrong, because the things I do to look after myself are a big part of my story. They belong in the journal.

So I started building Mark.

01What I mean by rituals

A ritual isn’t a task. A task is something you get through, like paying a bill or answering an email. A ritual is something that makes you better. It’s the run you go on even when it’s cold out. It’s ten minutes of quiet before the day starts, or a chapter of a book before bed. Nobody hands you a ritual. You choose it because of who you want to be.

I didn’t want an app that treats those things like chores to tick off. I wanted one that respects them.

02Putting them in the journal

Here’s the idea Mark is built around. When you do a ritual, it moves into your journal timeline on its own. You don’t have to write it up twice. So when you scroll back through a week, you don’t just see what you wrote. You see the yoga on Tuesday, the hike on Saturday, the morning you finally meditated after a rough night, all sitting right next to your thoughts from those days.

That’s when it clicked for me.

Your days aren’t only what happened to you. They’re also what you showed up for.

03Built for me first

Honestly, I made this for myself. I wanted it to be private, so everything is sealed on your phone and the server can’t read a word. I wanted to open it without signing up for anything. And I wanted it to feel calm, not like another app yelling at me.

Somewhere along the way I realized a lot of people probably want the same thing. They’ve got their journal and their rituals, and they’ve never had one place that holds both.

Mark is that place. It’s made by a small studio, and it’s still growing. If you journal, or you have a few things you do to become a better version of yourself, I think you’ll feel at home in it.

Make your mark.