Halflight
Halflight is a diary you speak. Tap once, tell it about your day in your own words, and read it back as a clean note under today's date.
Articles and posts
- Should I talk to myself in the third person?
In 2014 studies, people who talked to themselves by name or as “you” handled a stressful speech and a hard conversation better than those who said “I”. - Does everyone notice my mistake?
Usually not. People expect others to notice their slips about twice as often as they really do. Here is what the spotlight effect research found. - Why does naming a feeling help?
Putting a feeling into a word quieted the brain’s threat response in a 2007 study, and people who can tell bad feelings apart tend to cope with them better. - Head too full to sleep?
Writing tomorrow’s to-do list before bed helped people fall asleep faster in a 2018 sleep-lab study. Trying to stop thinking tends to backfire. - Does writing about hard things help?
Often, yes. People who wrote about a painful event on four evenings went to the doctor less in the months after, and a 2006 study found talking it out helped too. - Does a gratitude list actually work?
Yes, modestly. In a 2003 study, people who listed things they were grateful for once a week rated their lives higher. Weekly was enough; nightly wasn’t tested. - After a bad day: think it over, or say it?
After a bad day, most of us replay it in our heads. Researchers asked students to spend fifteen minutes, three days in a row, on the worst thing that… - Does letting it out make anger smaller?
You've probably heard that it's healthy to let anger out. Hit a pillow, scream, blow off steam. In 2002, a psychologist tested it. Angry people hit a… - Will going easy on yourself make you lazy?
Being hard on yourself feels like the way to improve. In experiments, kindness after a failure made people work harder. - After a bad day: think it over, or say it?
On a bad day, putting it into words did more than going over it in your head. On a good day, the opposite. - Does letting it out make anger smaller?
“Let it out” is common advice for anger. In experiments it tends to keep anger going.