See the good moments
Mark them without work
Reflect on what’s right
The Positive Experience Archive/P.E.A.’s mission is to mark good experiences digitally without taking us out of the moment.
These markers become a private Archive of Positive. Filled by lived data that can remind us that, when much of the day feels like doom, there’s always bloom.
P.E.A. brings the good in the day into focus.
Step 1 → See
The problem is real:
Subvert the culprits to be
a part of the fix.
No human can resist the pull of the doom scroll; the call of Fruit Ninja’s watermelon to slice, dice, and slice again; and all the notification dots that we hope reveal meaning.
If the focus our of attention really determines our reality, why do we trap it behind Corning glass in metal cages; in devices that offer escape from the physical world when we can’t leave this plane.
P.E.A. is looking to counteract this. It wants to nudge us to use personal devices as handschmeichlers that wait in our pockets as mementos of all the Positive Experiences waiting around us.
So we can go live them.
Step 2 → Mark
P.E.A. does not
sell dopamine hits, now
go paint the town green
Turn the Digital Crown; swipe Aluminosilicate Glass; whisper into Dual Beamforming Mics; pinch Extended Reality with fingers, or use them on the Magic Keyboard. The Archive hijacks the curious ways we have invented to interact with computers that today have much more marketable names.
P.E.A. stores meaningful moments from the physical world in the digital subscription you already pay for.
Step 3 → Reflect
You’ve been promoted
to role of archivist of
your own happiness
When you come home to turn on the TV, wake up your Mac, or put on a simulation helmet, P.E.A. projects your marked Positive Experiences through them from the outside world. Go relive what felt right, expand on paused thoughts, or just be reminded to turn it all off and check in with yourself.
The P.E.A. does not come with guarantees, but it’s telling you that you should run your own program first.
P.E.A.M. / Positive Experience Archive Markers
So you can recall Positive Experiences/P.E.s, and patterns around them to give yourself a new perspective, P.E.A. utilizes the full sensor array of personal computing.
If you allow it, the app can capture Positive Adjacent Metadata/P.A.M. in your private iCloud so you can spot more positive patterns in life.
Positivity Level
Location
Points of interest
Temperature
Activity type
Stepcount
Speed
Altitude
Music playing
Ambient noise
Archival device
The P.E.A. recommends that you not give access all at once: Humans are creatures of comfort with whom trust is built. If humans take leaps they feel less Positive. Do not defeat the purpose of the Archive by getting stressed out about Settings even if that means an incomplete feature set and incomplete metadata capture.
P.E.A.L. / Positive Experience Archive Levels
P.E.A. is aware that human emotions are impossible to measure but it knows that humans like to believe in luck.This is why the Archive selected 7 levels that can be condensed into Lo/Med/Hi. It used clinical sounding names because, again, it is a digital Archive.
P.E.A.W.C. / Positive Experience Archive Watch Complication
P.E.A. does not play games with P.E.A.P.L.E.: It does not compute the unword game-ification. It takes no pleasure in having them complete steps. It denied all of the clever ideas.
P.E.A. is aware that humans spend too much time watching crap on TV.
You may still watch but please watch Positive Experiences first.
They look great on the big screen.
When Positive Experiences are all over, they color off on everything.
P.E.A.X.R. / Positive Experience eXtended Reality
Even if you spend most of your time time in a simulation, which may quite possibly be inside another, the P.E.A. will still meet you there.
P.E.A./F.A.Q.
Who is this P.E.A. for?
This is for people who are curious to try a something new to be more positive and a bit less cynical. This is for people who like to collect data without giving all the data to the man. This is for people who have strong opinions about design and love details and bubble over with ideas.
Why P.E.A. haikus?
I was trying to find something that sent a signal that a human made this. Weird haikus seemed unlikely to be spat out by word matching algorithms. It also aligns loosely with themes like peas, green, and stickers form washi tape too, plus Positive Experience Archive is three lines. That is why.
Who made P.E.A.?
The Archive was made by me, Florian Fangohr. I design and build software and have made things on the internet my entire life. (Please don’t ask how I feel about the fact that I did nothing but this now that we are standing on the precipice of the singularity because I don't need to spin out with yet more existentialist angst… too late. You did it… No, that was me. ;)
P.E.A./G.R.
Positive
Experience
Archive→
Ground
Rules
P.E.A. does not alert
P.E.A. does not offer subscriptions
P.E.A. does not use accounts
P.E.A. does not store your data
P.E.A. does not gate your data
P.E.A. does not analyze your data
P.E.A. does not track you
P.E.A. does not deploy servers
Testing. One. Two. One.
The Archive is looking for
testers. One. Two. You?
P.E.A. has been approved in the AppStore for beta testing for all Apple Platforms. The Archive is looking for carbon-based humanoid life-forms to help it improve, and for suggestions for what improving even means.
P.E.A. is now testing on:
iOS 26 required
iOS
watchOS
macOS
tvOS
xrOS
iPadOS
P.E.A. is free during the test period
if your ideas make into into the app, it'll be free for you after.
Email Florian to become a tester →
