Amure
How it works

We start with the cities you lived in, not the people.

Autobiographical memory is indexed by life context, not by people. That’s why Amure’s first session mentions no one — and that’s why it works.

session 1 · 5 min

The skeleton

Your cities, your flats, your studies, your jobs. Five minutes, no emotional weight, and the page is already not blank: the chapters of your timeline fill themselves in.

Then Amure asks period by period, never person by person. Thirty seconds per entry, six to ten in one session. Depth comes later, one relationship at a time, in an order the app chooses — and the current one comes last.

2019 – 2021 · Nantes
Was there someone?
yes, a relationship
I was on my own
skip, I’ll come back
the reward

Your timeline, whole

Nobody has ever seen their romantic life as an object. Two strands braid during a relationship, run parallel while you’re on your own, and go dotted where something is missing. Gaps aren’t a reproach: they’re the next questions.

a relationship
on your own
a gap · nothing placed
ongoing
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every week

Sixty seconds, six items

It’s the only thing Amure asks you to keep up. It starts the moment session one ends: a habit forms in the first seven days, or never.

Nothing you see later is ever asked of you directly. The five indicators — unspoken words, initiative asymmetry, peripheral erosion, escalation speed, volatility — are derived from these six answers.

the weekly check-in
1
Did I say what I thought?
2
Who reached out first?
3
Did I feel like myself?
4
Any unease between contacts?
5
My friends and activities: seen, reduced, dropped?
6
One sentence. Yours.
every month

The sitting

Six screens, from the factual to the loaded. The sitting is private and may say uncomfortable things; whatever you share afterwards, if anything, is a separate object containing only what you confirmed or wrote yourself.

A month with a break-up drops into reduced mode on its own, with no hypothesis. An empty month is a single screen, without guilt. A month on your own is a full sitting.

The record
What you logged this month, without commentary.
Your words
The four sentences from item 6, verbatim, alone on screen.
The curves
Two, never more, always relative to your own baseline.
The hypothesis
One per sitting, asked as a question, with its evidence.
The bridge
Where you are compared to previous times, at the same marker.
Your line
One sentence for next month. You close the sitting, not the app.
the engine

It stays quiet more often than it speaks

About fifteen hand-written rules, two crossed dimensions at most, one hypothesis per sitting. The reference is never a population: it’s your own distribution. If nine of your twelve meetings came from an app, saying you meet people on apps is noise — so the rule says nothing.

the engine
a recurrence, resting on 3 entries

Your three longest relationships all started at work — yet work accounts for only 3 of your 12 meetings.

2013 – 2014
2017 – 2019
2024 – …
Does that ring true?
yes
partly
no
rephrase

A yes creates a recurrence. A no mutes the rule, durably. A rule that can’t show the entries behind it has no right to exist — and on a timeline with no pattern, the engine must stay silent. An engine that always finds something is broken.