Settings

General

The intuitive controls, sliders, toggles, and buttons we all have.

35 settings

Accessibility

Adjust your environment so you can succeed — instead of forcing yourself to struggle. Change the setup, not yourself.

41 stories
Colin Gosselin and the Basement Room Marisa Januzzi Thomas and the Ice Cream Truck Myra Flynn and the Hair That Hurt Tom Cruise and the Six-Hour Makeup Problem Oprah Winfrey and the Kindergarten Letter …

Airplane Mode

Knowing when to fully disconnect for safety, clarity, or self-preservation. A total systems safeguard.

21 stories
Christian Estevez and the Rainy Night in Mikey's Car Benny Blanco's Mental Collapse at the Height of His Career Marie Jollette and the Last Shift Bella Thorne and the Night She Left Millie Bobby Brown and the Breaking Point with Public Criticism …

Anti-Alias

Whether you flatten the world into binaries, or allow for nuance, complexity, and blurry edges.

226 stories
Eve Engel and the First Kiss That Wasn't Perfect Tristan Redmond and the Faceless Woman Tim League and the Lawsuit Breakfast Regina Barzilai and the Mammogram Machine Steve Strogatz and the Machine That Does Math Better …

App Permissions

What you allow different areas of your life to access. The boundaries between work, relationships, health, and identity.

77 stories
Jill and the Cornell Campus Police The Person Who Manages Everyone Else's Emotions So the Room Stays Calm Michaela Nogueira and the Marriage to Cody The Caregiver Who Lost Herself While Caring for Her Mother Luann de Lesseps and Finding Her Own Driver's Seat …

Auto-Lock

How quickly you shut down or disengage when not actively stimulated. Your threshold for idle before you check out.

8 stories
G.J. Echternkamp and Learning to Live Without the Chaos Andrew McGill and Mr. Bonavida's Turntables Joey Shama and the House of Cards Morning Amanda Burrell and the Naval Accident Mandy and the Paris Attack …

Background Processes

The fears, survival patterns, and old logic that keep running in your mind whether you notice them or not. Some were installed by you, some by your environment, some by people who raised you. This setting is not about stopping them — it is about whether you even know they are there.

263 stories
Prima Kwagala and the Night Her Father Broke Down the Door Dia and Her Ama's Answer at the Doctor's Office Ivan Lowe and the PTSD He Didn't See Coming Tristan Redmond and the Faceless Woman Colin Gosselin and the Basement Room …

Backup

The systems, people, and practices you have in place to preserve what matters — so nothing critical is ever truly lost.

12 stories
Steph Rogers and the Night Charlie's Phone Died Roy Seiders and the Night Ivan Died Crevon Scott and the Vending Machines Heather Angel and the Old Man The Dallas Cancer Survivor and Learning to Trust Herself …

Battery Level

Energy levels, drive, and what fuels or drains you. How you manage your reserves and when to switch into low-power mode.

112 stories
The Person Who Manages Everyone Else's Emotions So the Room Stays Calm Marisa Januzzi Thomas and the Ice Cream Truck The Caregiver Who Lost Herself While Caring for Her Mother Brian Rudolph and the Kidney Stone Production Run Dr. Becky Kennedy After Her Emergency C-Section …

Brightness

How much light you bring to what you're looking at. Controls whether you see the hopeful side or the dark side of a situation.

180 stories
Juliet Holmes and the Colored Water Fountain Ivan Lowe and the Fear of Actually Having a Future Tim and Carrie League and Making Peace with Failure Before They Started Maya Molina Schaefer and the Singing Toothbrush Nick Green and the Question He'd Ask His Younger Self …

Data Usage

How much mental, emotional, and social bandwidth you consume. Tracking what drains your plan and what's worth the cost.

13 stories
Michael Donovan and the Jungle Cat Garrett Morgan and the Military Ban Spreadsheets Jim Kurzley and the Retail Margin Dilemma John Gabbert and the Ten-Year Estrangement Daniel Levitin and the Mental Bandwidth Discovery …

Date & Time

Your relationship with time — how you track it, honor it, and whether you live ahead of, behind, or inside the present moment.

70 stories
Eve Engel and the First Kiss That Wasn't Perfect Ivan Lowe and the Fear of Actually Having a Future Sabrina Zohar and the Night Her Mom Got Sick The Student and the Cup of Water The CFO Who Found a Brain Tumor and Stopped Chasing More …

Do Not Disturb

Your ability to intentionally block out the world when needed. Used for recovery, focus, or boundary-setting.

36 stories
Oprah Winfrey and the Noise of the World Gael and the Solo Night at the LA Warehouse Kayla and the Group Circle at Paragon Camila Mendes and the Hamster Wheel Chuck Surack and Choosing Not to Participate …

Force Quit

When a specific thought, worry, or emotion keeps looping, you intentionally stop feeding it.

91 stories
Tim and Carrie League and Making Peace with Failure Before They Started The Person Who Spends Three Hours Dreading a 30-Minute Conversation Dion Leonard Searches for Gobi in Urumqi Sabrina Zohar and Her Brother's Return Ben Affleck and the Mental Conditioning Disaster …

Haptics

How much you physically feel. Turn it up and every bump, vibration, and ache registers. Turn it down and the pain, tension, and discomfort fade into the background.

52 stories
Ivan Lowe and the Cancer Diagnosis Dr. Becky Kennedy After Her Emergency C-Section Charlie and the Funeral He Almost Skipped A Fearfully Attached Person Realizing Peace Feels Wrong Jay Shetty and the Skydiving Visualization …

Hotspot

When you become the connection for others — sharing your energy, knowledge, or stability so others can get online.

35 stories
Alex Cooper and Becoming a Mother While Covering Sexual Violence Tom Cruise and Letting Actors Play Without Permission Bill Mitchell and the News in the Parking Lot Arava Chakin and the Math Department Bunker Jay Shetty and the Trap of Constant Self-Focus …

Language & Region

Your openness to engaging with other cultures, languages, and perspectives — including those native to someone else's lived experience.

13 stories
Esther McManus and the Call from Julia Child Dave Blanchard and the Kids in the Comments Taylor Swift Learning Football From Scratch Miriam Toews and Her Silent Son Owen Ivan McClellan and the Black Rodeo Discovery …

Location Services

Self-awareness; your ability to track where you are mentally, emotionally, and physically — in time, space, and energy.

259 stories
Ivan Lowe and the PTSD He Didn't See Coming Carrie League and Giving Up the PhD Tim League and the Day-One Office Alex Cooper and Becoming a Mother While Covering Sexual Violence The Person Who Spends Three Hours Dreading a 30-Minute Conversation …

Microphone Sensitivity

How much you hear. Controls whether you pick up on the quiet signals — tone shifts, what someone didn't say, the things most people miss.

55 stories
Tim League and the Me Too Reckoning Alex Cooper and the Boyfriend Who Lost His Watch Alex Cooper and the Hockey Player Visit That Went Wrong Nikole Hannah-Jones and the School Choice Reckoning Courtney and the Wedding Speech She Never Understood …

Mute

Your ability to stop responding, even when provoked. Not about listening, but choosing silence as a control.

28 stories
Jessica Wheeler and the Neighbor from Hell Alex Cooper and Learning That Boundaries Are About You, Not Them Kip Tyndall and His Father's Birthday Party Tim Lopez and the UCLA Tennis Match Chloe Bailey and Learning to Say No …

Notifications

Your ability to filter incoming inputs — choosing what deserves your attention and what can wait.

130 stories
Oprah Winfrey and the Noise of the World John Groener and the Co-op That Almost Closed Travis Kelce and the Training Camp Dad-Body Jokes The Custody Mother and the Question of Good Enough Roy Seiders and the Name Nobody Liked But Everyone Remembered …

Parental Controls

Whether you give yourself the option to choose who you are, instead of just defaulting to how you were raised.

125 stories
Dia and Her Ama's Answer at the Doctor's Office Carrie League and Giving Up the PhD David Smith and the First Communion Sabrina Zohar and the Breakup That Made Her Ask Why Christian Estevez and the Rainy Night in Mikey's Car …

Privacy

How much of yourself you reveal to the people already in your life. Controls what you share, how deep you go, and what stays yours.

159 stories
Masuma Ranalvi and the Question That Broke Her Silence Jill and the Cornell Campus Police The Person Who Edits Themselves Before Sharing Good News Alex Cooper and the Shame of Grieving Her Old Life Jessica Wheeler and the Neighbor from Hell …

Restart

Your ability to pause, reflect, and begin again — not reactively, but with intention.

198 stories
Colin Gosselin and the Decision to Stop Being Angry Sylvester Stallone and Being Told He Was Done Jeffrey Hollander and Being Fired from His Own Company Matthew McConaughey and the 'All Right, All Right, All Right' Origin Daniel Norwood and the Accident That Killed Jessica …

Restore

Your ability to return to a previous version of yourself — recovering lessons, habits, or strengths you once had.

42 stories
Sabrina Zohar and the Near-Kidnapping Nobody Believed Sonia Morgan and Realizing How Strong She Actually Was Sylvester Stallone and Being Told He Was Done Lucy Hale and Getting Sober at 32 Tom Brady and the Gronk Confidence Catch …

Safe Mode

Safe Mode is when you temporarily run only the essentials because your system feels overloaded. Just like a phone that's glitching or slowing down, you close extra applications, reduce background noise, and stop adding new demands so nothing crashes. It's not about solving everything or pretending nothing's wrong — it's about stabilizing. You lower expectations, simplify the day, and protect your energy until your system feels steady again.

55 stories
Bryony Chappell and the Colorado Ski Mix-Up The Caregiver Who Lost Herself While Caring for Her Mother A Young Entrepreneur and the Weight of Everything at Once Jonna Mendez and the Terrorist in the Lobby Dr. Becky Kennedy After Her Emergency C-Section …

Screen Recording

Your ability to capture and remember what happens — journaling, reflecting, and preserving moments for future review.

17 stories
Sayre Quevedo and the Barbershop Across the Street Mike Thexton and the Phone Call from Federal Prison Alex Cooper and the Boyfriend Who Lost His Watch Bridget Marquardt and the Morning After the Mansion Kim Vaccarella and Turning Down $100 Million …

Screen Time

How much of your day is spent on screens versus in the real world.

13 stories
Chris McElroy and the Analog Ritual Opportunity Valerie Sizemore and the Search for What's Still Human Julian and the Rookie Coffee Revelation Mandy and the EMDR Session Mandy and the Self-Hatred Discovery …

Screensaver

A simple on/off control for what your mind returns to when nothing is actively happening. When on, a neutral or steady thought fills the space. When off, whatever is loudest or most repetitive takes over.

25 stories
Maya Molina Schaefer and the Singing Toothbrush Ben Affleck and the Mental Conditioning Disaster Michaela Nogueira and the Online Hate Alex Cooper and the College Boyfriend She Couldn't Let Be Good Jay Shetty and the Fragmented Attention Problem …

Storage

How much you hold onto — thoughts, emotions, relationships, experiences. Can be overloaded or carefully curated.

90 stories
Mercedes Smith and Learning to Stop Doing Everything at Once Bob Milne and the Four Symphonies Tamara and the Exorcism She Couldn't Forget Sonia Morgan and Letting Go of Chasing Status Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollander Coming to Terms with Their Split …

Sync

How well your inner world matches your outer world. The alignment between what you feel, say, and do.

272 stories
Dia and Her Ama's Answer at the Doctor's Office Colin Gosselin and the Decision to Stop Being Angry Carrie League and Giving Up the PhD Danny Walsh and Funding a Mission Without Selling It Out Rhea Jane and Building VoiceBack for Her Grandmother …

Time Zone

Your awareness of where others are in their journey. The ability to meet people in their time, not just yours.

68 stories
Juliet Holmes and the Colored Water Fountain Sayre Quevedo and Connor Quevedo and the Distance Between Them Jeffrey Hollander and Being Fired from His Own Company Woody Harrelson and the Brother He Wasn't Sure He Wanted Dave Blanchard and the Kids in the Comments …

Tone

How your message feels to someone else.

23 stories
Ben Affleck and the Armageddon DVD Commentary Sayre Quevedo and Connor Quevedo and the Distance Between Them Tom Cruise and Keeping a Set Calm Before a Stunt Jay Shetty and the Calendar That Left No Room for Life Meredith Manwaring and the Measles Outbreak in Vernal …

Update

Your willingness to evolve, learn, and install new ways of thinking — even when the current version feels comfortable.

360 stories
Masuma Ranalvi and the Question That Broke Her Silence Prima Kwagala and the Night Her Father Broke Down the Door Ivan Lowe and the Fear of Actually Having a Future Ivan Lowe and the PTSD He Didn't See Coming Tim League and the Me Too Reckoning …

Volume

How strongly you project your thoughts and emotions into the world.

99 stories
Masuma Ranalvi and the Question That Broke Her Silence Kate Manne and the Shift from Shock to Action The Person Who Edits Themselves Before Sharing Good News Sabrina Zohar and Her Brother's Return Sabrina Zohar and the Moment She Stopped Being a Shell …

Wi-Fi

Your relationships and how you connect with others. The invisible networks that keep you linked to community and support.

75 stories
Ivan Lowe and the Cancer Diagnosis Ben Affleck and the Hollywood Fair-Weather Friends Marisa Januzzi Thomas and the Ice Cream Truck Sayre Quevedo and Connor Quevedo and the Distance Between Them Kemp Powers and His Daughter …
Name Type Stories
Accessibility — Adjust your environment so you can succeed — instead of forcing yourself to struggle. Change the setup, not yourself. selector 41
Airplane Mode — Knowing when to fully disconnect for safety, clarity, or self-preservation. A total systems safeguard. mode 21
Anti-Alias — Whether you flatten the world into binaries, or allow for nuance, complexity, and blurry edges. switch 226
App Permissions — What you allow different areas of your life to access. The boundaries between work, relationships, health, and identity. selector 77
Auto-Lock — How quickly you shut down or disengage when not actively stimulated. Your threshold for idle before you check out. slider 8
Background Processes — The fears, survival patterns, and old logic that keep running in your mind whether you notice them or not. Some were installed by you, some by your environment, some by people who raised you. This setting is not about stopping them — it is about whether you even know they are there. selector 263
Backup — The systems, people, and practices you have in place to preserve what matters — so nothing critical is ever truly lost. command 12
Battery Level — Energy levels, drive, and what fuels or drains you. How you manage your reserves and when to switch into low-power mode. gauge 112
Brightness — How much light you bring to what you're looking at. Controls whether you see the hopeful side or the dark side of a situation. slider 180
Data Usage — How much mental, emotional, and social bandwidth you consume. Tracking what drains your plan and what's worth the cost. gauge 13
Date & Time — Your relationship with time — how you track it, honor it, and whether you live ahead of, behind, or inside the present moment. gauge 70
Do Not Disturb — Your ability to intentionally block out the world when needed. Used for recovery, focus, or boundary-setting. mode 36
Force Quit — When a specific thought, worry, or emotion keeps looping, you intentionally stop feeding it. command 91
Haptics — How much you physically feel. Turn it up and every bump, vibration, and ache registers. Turn it down and the pain, tension, and discomfort fade into the background. slider 52
Hotspot — When you become the connection for others — sharing your energy, knowledge, or stability so others can get online. switch 35
Language & Region — Your openness to engaging with other cultures, languages, and perspectives — including those native to someone else's lived experience. selector 13
Location Services — Self-awareness; your ability to track where you are mentally, emotionally, and physically — in time, space, and energy. switch 259
Microphone Sensitivity — How much you hear. Controls whether you pick up on the quiet signals — tone shifts, what someone didn't say, the things most people miss. slider 55
Mute — Your ability to stop responding, even when provoked. Not about listening, but choosing silence as a control. switch 28
Notifications — Your ability to filter incoming inputs — choosing what deserves your attention and what can wait. slider 130
Parental Controls — Whether you give yourself the option to choose who you are, instead of just defaulting to how you were raised. switch 125
Privacy — How much of yourself you reveal to the people already in your life. Controls what you share, how deep you go, and what stays yours. selector 159
Restart — Your ability to pause, reflect, and begin again — not reactively, but with intention. command 198
Restore — Your ability to return to a previous version of yourself — recovering lessons, habits, or strengths you once had. command 42
Safe Mode — Safe Mode is when you temporarily run only the essentials because your system feels overloaded. Just like a phone that's glitching or slowing down, you close extra applications, reduce background noise, and stop adding new demands so nothing crashes. It's not about solving everything or pretending nothing's wrong — it's about stabilizing. You lower expectations, simplify the day, and protect your energy until your system feels steady again. mode 55
Screen Recording — Your ability to capture and remember what happens — journaling, reflecting, and preserving moments for future review. switch 17
Screen Time — How much of your day is spent on screens versus in the real world. slider 13
Screensaver — A simple on/off control for what your mind returns to when nothing is actively happening. When on, a neutral or steady thought fills the space. When off, whatever is loudest or most repetitive takes over. mode 25
Storage — How much you hold onto — thoughts, emotions, relationships, experiences. Can be overloaded or carefully curated. gauge 90
Sync — How well your inner world matches your outer world. The alignment between what you feel, say, and do. command 272
Time Zone — Your awareness of where others are in their journey. The ability to meet people in their time, not just yours. gauge 68
Tone — How your message feels to someone else. slider 23
Update — Your willingness to evolve, learn, and install new ways of thinking — even when the current version feels comfortable. command 360
Volume — How strongly you project your thoughts and emotions into the world. slider 99
Wi-Fi — Your relationships and how you connect with others. The invisible networks that keep you linked to community and support. switch 75