A few words before you begin.
Weeks disappear. Months disappear. Whole seasons of life go by — and we only understand them afterwards.
MountainRiver is built on one simple idea: if we notice more, we appreciate more. You don't need to write perfectly, or journal every day, or become someone else. You just need a place where your life can gather a little.
Your whole life, gathering.
Everything you keep flows into one quiet feed — the days you've written, the moods, the photos, the goals you're circling.
And when something matters, you lift it. A line, a photo, a small win — you raise it so it stays near the top, instead of drifting off the way things do. Over time the feed becomes less of a timeline and more of a portrait: the things you decided were worth holding onto.
A place to look back, a place to look forward, and Sky to help you notice the thread between them.
The days
behind you.
Journal, notes, moods, photos. Some days you write a lot. Some days one sentence is enough. Most of life isn't profound — but the ordinary things are often the ones you're glad you kept.
The shape
ahead.
A few goals. A few habits. A few dreams that matter, even if they're still some way off. Not a productivity machine — just a steady place to remember the direction you care about.
It reads your life,
and reflects it back.
Sky reads across what you've kept and reflects it back. It might notice that your calmest entries follow the days you saw friends, or that a dream you set aside last spring keeps surfacing in what you write now.
You can ask Sky questions, and it answers from your own life — not the internet.
It's not there to judge you or motivate you with advice. Just to reflect your own life back, with a little more distance and care.
Sky can turn a week into a short meditation, or a piece of music made from what you've been living through.
Your journal is yours. Your entries are never used to train AI models, and never sold. Sky only reads your life so it can reflect it back — and you can export or delete everything, anytime.
Ready when you are.
You've been invited to the first small cohort. Open MountainRiver, enter your email, and a magic link will arrive to sign you in. To keep it close, add it to your home screen — on iPhone, tap Share then ‘Add to Home Screen’; on Android, tap the menu then ‘Add to Home Screen’.
Open MountainRiver →Questions, or hit a snag? tommyjiduncan@gmail.com — I read every one.