a shared journal for ordinary days
Add today’s tasks, a photo, and one thought. Then watch your people’s days arrive next to yours: who’s stressed, who’s thriving, who finally called the dentist. The stuff you stop knowing when everyone scatters.
free on iPhone and Android · takes about two minutes
Five stars on the App Store
Brett
Today
“The barista remembered my order. Small fame.”
jasper (not my cat)
coffee first, always
the stuff I used to miss
None of it is worth interrupting fourteen people for. All of it is your actual life. And it’s exactly what your people stop seeing when they can’t see you. hodgepodge gives it back: the small window, no catch-up call required.
Jamie K.
Today
“I think I’m actually becoming a morning person?”
Maya R.
Today
“My houseplant is alive and honestly that’s growth”
How it works
A few tasks, one photo, one thought. Not a productivity system. Just the texture of today. “Bought spinach with good intentions” counts.
Tasks
Photo
the plant made it home
not a highlight reel
Thoughts
The stranger who held the elevator even though I was clearly too far away
The train was twenty minutes out, so I got a pastry. The system works.
Joy doesn't have to be sophisticated to count
At heart, hodgepodge is a shared journal app: a small daily record you keep where the people you choose can see it. Who those people are is up to you.
with your partner
Most of a love story is ordinary days. Now you both get to keep them.
a journal for couples →
with close friends
Know who's stressed, who's thriving, and who got a really good haircut.
a journal with friends →
for gentle accountability
Write it down where your people can see it. Somehow that makes you do it.
an accountability partner app →
across the distance
The big news travels on its own. This carries the part you actually miss.
for long-distance friends →
as a photo journal
One photo a day of your actual life: the desk, the lunch, the weird cloud.
a photo journal app →
as a daily ritual
A few tasks, one photo, one thought. Simple enough to survive busy humans.
the two-minute check-in →
A private two-minute journal is a fine thing to have. But the day your person starts checking in next to you, the whole thing warms up: their leftover errands beside yours, their weird lunch, their one good thought about the elevator stranger. That’s the point.
Every check-in becomes a day you can scroll back to: the photo, the list, the thing you couldn’t stop thinking about. Some weeks are full. Some aren’t. Both are you, and both are worth keeping.
the walk home
a whole bird
free sunset
The last few months
no streaks to protect. just days you kept.
this one? napped.
From our App Store reviews
Five stars on the App Store
“I love being able to see the little details of my friends’ days and share my own. It’s the best parts of social media and journaling all in one beautiful lil app”
“I recently moved out of my home country and have really struggled to stay in touch with friends. This app COMPLETELY changed that.”
“I’m not usually a to-do list person, but this app has made it feel so satisfying to write down my tasks and thoughts at the beginning of each day.”
“Feels kind of like Strava for other life stuff haha.”
free, if you want in
This is how people who love each other keep each other: not in the big moments. Just quietly, gladly, one shared ordinary day at a time.
(hi, i’m brett.)
My best friends scattered across the country, and staying close shrank to a group chat. I knew everything they found funny. I knew nothing about their actual days.
So I made hodgepodge: everyone holds up their day (the tasks, a photo, one thought) and nobody has to perform. We got daily again.
A few tasks. A photo. A thought. Your people do the same, and slowly you know them again. That’s the whole ritual, and it takes about two minutes.
you made it all the way down here. that feels like a sign.
