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Our story

Built in honor of a friend
who didn't make it
through 2019.

In 2019 I lost my best friend Nick to mental health struggles.

In 2020, a pandemic hit, my family's house burnt down, and my girlfriend and I split apart.

I was not doing well.

So I read all the books. I did the work. I built those foundations. And finally, I felt a sense a sense of stability.

But a year later, life got busy again, and I'd forgotten it all. I was back in the swing of everyday life, mentally retracing my steps, asking myself:

"Didn't I already know this two years ago? What happened to that momentum? Where was I?"

This is the journal I built for myself to be more creative, reflective, and satisfied with my life. To maintain my internal momentum. And to reduce the friction for the age-old habit of writing.

Alec, founder of Where Was I
Alec
Founder
Illustration of a small garden — growth and care
Our storyA practice that could survive the noiseI lost Nick in 2019. Morning pages kept me upright; I needed that steadiness to stay when work, grief, and everyday chaos turned the volume back up. That’s why I made Where Was I—and why the name is the question I couldn’t stop asking.Read the full story

A method that works

750 words a day.
That's it.

Not a blog post, not a status update, not a chatbot, not something you'll publish.
Stream-of-consciousness writing that gets you present before the day takes over.

Rubber duck at the edge of a stone well
How it fits togetherThe Duck & the Well

A short story about talking to the duck, tending the well, and four practices — journal, reflect, practice, share — that turn writing into lasting change.

Read The Duck & the Well

Questions

A few questions, kindly answered

The habit in a nutshell — no jargon, no hustle framing, just why each piece is there.

Why 750 words?

It comes from Julia Cameron's morning pages in The Artist's Way — three pages longhand, roughly 750 words typed. Enough to get past surface thoughts and reach what you're avoiding. Not so much it feels impossible.

Why every morning?

You get ahead of the day instead of reacting to it. Before email, feeds, and everyone else's priorities — you hear your own voice first.

Why stream-of-consciousness?

No editing, no performance. The point isn't to write well — it's to write honestly. That's where the unexpected stuff surfaces.

Why does it stick?

Writing only for yourself — no audience, no likes — is one of the last places you can't fake it. The product builds on that with patterns over time so you're not relearning the same lesson every year.

“The way I see it, treats and rewards motivate me to keep going early on — and eventually the joy of writing kicks in and I'm writing without any external motivation at all.”

— The philosophy behind our writing practice

Product promises

Quiet support around a simple daily habit.

And nothing extra between you and the page.

The method stays simple; the product handles the parts that should fade into the background.

Tuesday, March 26

Woke up before the alarm for the first time in months. Stayed in bed listening to the rain.

Didn't check my phone.

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Writing experience

A blank page that respects your attention

No formatting toolbars crowding your view. No buttons you didn't ask for. Just a clean surface with the right typeface, line-height, and your cursor.

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY

“Just landed in Tokyo. The airport is impossibly clean. I feel like I'm in a film.”

March 26, 2025 · Tokyo Journal

Memory

On this day, one year ago

Every morning, quietly surface what you wrote a year ago. No algorithm. No engagement loop. Just a gentle reminder that you've been somewhere.

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