theme no. 05 — new — herbarium
Pressed
For the journal that collects things. A stone-sage desk, a specimen label for the date, one line-drawn leaf by the title. What you keep comes back as specimen cards, seed packets and taped field notes.
In the app: Settings → Appearance → Pressed. It follows your account to every device, phone included.
Give a year of Haumm →Found maidenhair growing out of the creek wall, right where the water drips. Took one frond home in the field guide. Repotted the big fern while I was at it.
Not just the page.
(every room, in Pressed.)
The page stays quiet so you can write. The keepsakes and the color live in the rooms. Settings and menus stay plain white.
Collect what you notice.
Every walk is a small inventory.
Commonplace
Specimen cards, seed packets, taped notes, field-book pages and taped photos. As a collage, or as framed posters.
Bookmarks
Grouped by month on a sheet of the theme's paper, each page with its date mark.
Insights
The same calm, readable page as every theme, on the theme's paper. Days and words, never a score.
while you write
The theme steps back when you write.
Start typing and the menus fade, like they always have. Now the date mark and the little ornaments fade with them, to about a third. Paper, ink and your words stay. Stop, and the room comes back.
Found maidenhair growing out of the creek wall, right where the water drips. Took one frond home in the field guide. Repotted the big fern while I was at it.
Share a piece, not your journal.
(framed like a print.)
Any piece you keep can leave as a poster. It's made on your device and goes only where you send it.
Write down the name of the plant.
Oct 12Collect what you notice.
Every walk is a small inventory.
Paper
Warm white paper on a stone-sage desk, deep green-black ink.
Type
Instrument Serif titles, IBM Plex Mono labels, Source Serif writing.
Pieces
Specimen cards, seed packets, taped notes, field-book pages and taped photos.
Works on
Desktop and phone. Follows your account everywhere.
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