The log
What has been built.
Said Daily is on the App Store, and it is free. A store page tells you what it is. It does not tell you what was actually built, on what day, or whether anybody is still working on it. This page does. Nothing here is a plan.
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4,361 thoughts withdrawn
4,339 of the short lines written for the app since late September were taken out: tips, rules of manners, advice on shopping or posting, and others too small to start a day with. So were 22 quotations that could hurt somebody reading them cold. The library is now 32,259 thoughts: 29,229 written for the app, and 3,030 quotations credited to 152 named people. A thought you had saved or written about stays with you.
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Reply to a thought, and react to the reply
A group’s conversation mostly happens under the thought rather than on it, and until now only the thought itself could be reacted to. Replies take the same four reactions, and the tallies travel with them.
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A thought you wrote can be changed afterwards
Edit the words, add a photograph, swap it, take it off, or delete the thought — from the list of your own writing, and from the thought itself while you are reading it. Before this a thought you had saved was fixed the moment you saved it.
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Saved opens on something different each morning
The card at the top of your library used to be whatever you kept most recently, so it did not move until you saved something else. It is now one of your saved thoughts a day. Your collections sit directly beneath it instead of four sections down.
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Being removed from a group is said to you
Every other outcome was already told to the person it was about — a strike, a strike taken back, a change of role, being let back in. Being removed was the one that was not, so it looked indistinguishable from the group having been deleted.
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Dates you can read, where a sanction is explained
The screen that tells you what you were given, and until when, was printing raw database timestamps in UTC. It now says the date and time the way your phone writes them — and the older dates it showed were wrong as well as unreadable.
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Face ID stops being asked for an empty page
Turning on the reflection lock and then opening your first Daily Pause met a Face ID prompt and the words “Your reflection is locked” — about a reflection that did not exist yet. The lock now waits until there is something written to protect.
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Removing a reflection asks first
Clearing the box and pressing Save was the only way to delete a reflection, and it did it without asking, on the one screen whose writing cannot be typed again. There is a named Remove Reflection now, and either route asks once.
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Onboarding shows a thought before it asks for anything
The first screen used to describe the app in three lines and show none of it. It now opens on a real thought with the question that comes with it, before anything is asked for. The name step has a way back and a way past.
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The Lock Screen says who said it
On the one-line Lock Screen and watch-face tiles the credit sat after the full quotation, where the system cut it off — so another writer’s words appeared with no name on them. The name comes first there now, and the words take the truncation.
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Weather that cannot be fetched says so
When the weather could not be reached, the space under the greeting simply went blank and stayed blank for a quarter of an hour, with nothing to tap. It now says it is unavailable and tries again when you ask it to.
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Reading paths sort themselves around you
The week you are partway through comes first, the ones you have not begun follow, and the ones you have finished move to the end. They used to sit in a fixed order, which put finished weeks at the front of the shelf.
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Groups open faster, and the first save counts properly
A group used to re-read its whole history every time it loaded. And the first thought you kept by hand could be announced as your twenty-fifth, because a starter shelf had already saved forty on your behalf.
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Proper quotation marks, in every thought
The library used straight typewriter marks far more often than curly ones. 13,406 thoughts, 3,634 explanations and 773 questions were corrected, so a thought, its question and its explanation now carry the same marks on the same screen.
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The library reaches 36,620 thoughts
11,368 more thoughts were added, every one written for the app and each with its own category, question and explanation, taking the library from 25,252 to 36,620. The quotations by other people did not change: 3,052 of them, credited to 152 named people.
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Quotations cut back to authors who have been checked
Somebody else’s words are now in the app only if their author is on a checked list of people who died in 1945 or earlier. That left 3,052 quotations by 152 named people, where there had been 7,251 by 2,414, and the explanations written about the 4,199 held back came out with them. Everything written for the app stayed, and the library stood at 25,252.
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Every quotation says who said it
A thought by somebody else now carries their name wherever it appears — the Home Screen and Lock Screen tiles, the watch face, and a thought shared into a group. It used to be credited inside the app and nowhere else.
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A group is told when somebody screenshots it
Taking a screenshot while a group is open lets the other members know it happened, and who. The first screenshot anybody ever takes is explained to them instead and told to nobody, so no one is named for something the app had not yet said it would report.
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Settings is drawn rather than borrowed
Every row in Settings has its own drawing now, in place of the system symbols, and each section is colored from the accent you chose rather than from a fixed set. The moods you can mark a thought with were redrawn the same way.
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Bring a list of your own thoughts in at once
Your Words takes a pasted list or a CSV file, shows you what it read before anything is saved, and tells you plainly about any line it could not make sense of.
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The app is called Said Daily
It was Quotes. The new name is on every screen, in every notification and in everything the app sends, and the thoughts, reflections and groups are untouched by it.
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A shared thought arrives as itself
Sharing a thought now sends a link that opens it, with the thought drawn on the card that appears in the message. Every one of them was drawn before release, so sharing is instant and nothing is made at the moment you tap.
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Sixty-nine thoughts withdrawn
Sixty-nine thoughts that read as one-liners rather than as something to sit with were taken out, leaving 29,451. A withdrawn thought’s number is never given to another, so a reflection you wrote cannot end up attached to a different line.
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Twelve thousand thoughts for a younger reader
Two sets of 6,000 thoughts written for a younger reader were added a day apart, each thought with its own question and explanation. In the same two days 197 lines were withdrawn: 195 too abstract to picture, eight of them from the first of the new sets, and two fragments of dialogue that meant nothing outside their novels. A thought you had saved or written about stays with you when it is withdrawn. The library reached 29,520.
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880 older quotations, and authors’ names put right
880 quotations were added from authors who died before 1926. 184 author names were merged or respelled — Cicero and Marcus Tullius Cicero are one person now, and Brontë, Søren and Émile have their accents back — and thirty lines by an author no reference work carries were withdrawn. The library stood at 17,717, with 7,343 of them credited to 2,436 named authors.
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Starter shelves you can remove
The six ready-made shelves the app offers during setup can now be taken back off. A thought you remove from one stays removed, even if the shelf is added again later or on another device.
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Contacts, and a privacy screen corrected
The app never had a way to read your contacts, but it still declared the permission, and the Privacy & Data screen listed Contacts among the things it asks for. Both were corrected. The rest of that screen was then read line by line against what the app actually does, and the sentences that no longer matched were rewritten, including the one iOS shows when it asks for Face ID, which now names the lock on your reflections.
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The library reaches 16,867 thoughts
4,356 more quotations were added, bringing the library to 16,867. 6,493 of them are credited to 2,505 named authors, and every single one carries a category, a question to sit with, and a longer explanation written for that line.
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Optional notes about the weather
If you switch it on, the app can send a short note tied to the day’s forecast: at most two a week, only between 09:00 and 17:00, never during severe weather or after dark, and never the same line twice in three weeks. The lines come from a written set of 230, and the forecast is held on the device with no location stored in it.
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A photo with a thought, and a lock
A thought you write can now keep a picture with it, taken with the camera or chosen from your photo library, and it travels to your other devices. Separately, reading your own reflections can be set to ask for Face ID, Touch ID or the passcode first, and it relocks whenever the app leaves the screen.
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Quiet Mode, and a lighter first week
The Daily Pause holds one thought on screen for a length you choose, ten to thirty seconds, with nothing to do but read it and then save, reflect or finish. For the first week, instead of a tour, four things are pointed out once each, quietly, where the thing itself is.
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An iPad layout, and iOS 26
On a full-width iPad the app now uses a sidebar, while an iPhone and a narrow split view keep the tab bar. The app was moved onto iOS 26, where the tab bar floats over the page and the paper runs to both edges behind it.
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An accessibility audit worked through
An audit had listed 48 problems; re-checking each one against the code found 29 still real, and 26 of those were fixed here. Text that had been stuck at one size now grows with whatever size you read at, buttons stretch to fit longer labels, and VoiceOver was gone through screen by screen.
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Search stops lagging the keyboard
Typing in Explore was measured at up to 328 milliseconds per keystroke, slow enough to see while you type. The same search now measures about 30, and results are held back a fraction of a second so a word costs one search rather than one per letter.
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An Apple Watch app, and widgets
A watch app shows the day’s thought edge to edge on the paper card, with complications for the watch face, and it now takes your chosen color from the phone. A save or a reflection made on the wrist waits and arrives when the phone is next in range. On the phone, widgets were added for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen, and they change size and color when iOS shows them in StandBy.
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Every thought explains itself
Every quotation was read and given its own question, and a “What this means” section written for that particular line rather than for the theme it sits in. The library grew from 1,200 to 5,375 thoughts in the same stretch.
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A Sunday note, and a printed book
On Sunday mornings the app can offer back one thought you saved and stopped seeing; nothing saved in the last fortnight counts, because that would be a repeat rather than a rediscovery. Your saved thoughts and reflections can also be laid out as a typeset book, 5.5 by 8.5 inches, with a title page, sections and page numbers.
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Groups, for reading alongside people
A group is a small room where a thought can be passed to a few people and talked about, with replies kept next to the thought they answer. Thoughts are picked from your own library rather than retyped, the Saved tab stays private, and this is the one part of the app that asks you to sign in.
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Where the history starts
The record begins with Today, Explore, Saved and Settings, a bundled library of 600 quotations, saved thoughts, collections, private reflections, iCloud sync and a daily notification. By the end of that day the library was 1,200 and Today had settled on three thoughts, each from a different theme.
The record starts on 3 Sept 2026 because that is where the repository starts, not because that is where the work did. The most recent entry here is 19 Oct 2026. If there is something you want the app to do, tell me — that is the only thing that decides what is on this page next.