Waking Words
You wake up and you’re out of it. There are things you need to do. There are things you’re trying to remember. You’re hungry and need caffeine. Let those wait.
Waking Words is the place to get the morning chaos out of your head.
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Morning pages, on the thing you already wake up with
Julia Cameron wrote The Artist’s Way in 1992. The first chapter is about Morning Pages which is just three pages of stream-of-consciousness writing right when you wake up. She says to not be precious about what you’re writing in morning pages or what you’re writing them on. You can write on anything so why not write on the thing you already grab for first in the morning.
What’s in it
A blank page. A word count if you want to chase 750 words. A timer if you’d rather chase 15 minutes. A streak counter that doesn’t shame you. A calendar of the mornings you showed up. iCloud sync between iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Entries saved as plain text files in your iCloud Drive — visible in the Files app, exportable, yours.
No formatting toolbar. No prompts. No AI suggestions trying to “improve” what you wrote. The whole point is that nothing edits you, including the app.
A morning, a middle, a night
Waking Words is the morning app. There are two others.
Mantra Mirror
For the middle of the day, when you’ve drifted and need to come back.
Gratitude Guide
For the end of the day, to close on three things and why they mattered.
You don’t have to use all three. They aren’t a system. They’re three small things for three different kinds of moments.
Start tomorrow morning
Open the app. Type until you hit your goal. Close the app. Start your day.
You will write embarrassing things. That’s the practice. No one sees them but you.