Stay present in life.
Mark the positive with ease.
Reflect it later.
The Positive Experience Archive was designed to mark good moments without taking us out of them.
Its markers are a private archive of happiness. They remind us that, when much of the day can feel like doom, there’s always something good in bloom.
Step 1 → See
The problem is real:
Subvert the culprits to be
a part of the fix.
Humans need help in the resistance. The call of the doom scroll; the one more Tok; and all the red notification dots that leave us with less.
The focus our of attention determines our reality. Yet, somehow we forget that we are physical, and trap that focus behind Corning glass in metal cages; in devices that only offer escape from this world.
P.E.A. counteracts this. It reminds you by being there. It claws back distractions on the screen to show your good experiences instead.
So you can go live more of 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.
P.E.A. does not come with guarantees, but it’s telling you that you should run your own program first.
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.
Positive Experience Archive Levels/P.E.A.L.s
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.
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.
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. does not hold happiness hostage
Positive
Experience
Archive→
Ground
Rules
P.E.A. does not alert
P.E.A. does not track
P.E.A. does not use accounts or passwords
P.E.A. does not offer subscriptions
P.E.A. does not gate your data
P.E.A. does not analyze your data
P.E.A. does not sell your data
P.E.A. does not deploy servers or store your data
P.E.A. can not read your data
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 →
P.E.A./F.A.Q.
Who is 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. ;)
