This originated from me repeatedly being intimate with this feeling of overwhelming gratitude for being alive and wanting to create a time capsule to preserve these feelings. It started off as just recording the date and time and leaving me space to write a little note about it, and increasingly I added more and more metadata to capture as much of the surrounding context as possible to “bottle” up this feeling. I added the location, front and back camera photos (BeReal style), and I really wanted a way to capture the surrounding snippet of audio (in the same way Live Photos do) but that wasn’t technically feasible.
I turned it into an iOS shortcut so I could run it from my home screen and also just tell Siri to run it by saying “i love living” so it was as easy as possible for me to capture without detracting from the moment.
Instructions: Install the shortcut using the link below and then create a note in your Apple Notes app called “I love living” You should be able to immediately start using the shortcut after that by either telling Siri “run I love living” or adding it to your homescreen (if you click into the shortcut there will be an option in there).
Share a note with your loved ones: you can modify the shortcut by just a little to also create tiny social networks around your gratitudes for living. To do so, just add a new “append to note” action, copy + paste the content from the existing one to the new one, and choose the shared note.
if you download it and want to hear from me for things that I add, **fill out your info! ** download link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/8524b99cb6264e62aaeb5c32b18f8d7b
Please email me ([email protected]) if you download this to let me know how it goes for you! I’m tinkering with making this into a better experience :)