Sparks from the grate
A quiet cue: let the hour tap you, then let it go
Reminders work when they are a wick, not a siren. Kindling’s chime is meant to be small.
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Spoken here — nothing leaves this device.
A cue is a knock, not a lecture. The hour arrives. The chime is two quiet notes. If the device can buzz, it taps twice, lightly. You look up. You mark the thing, or you name the next window. Then the cue is done. It does not follow you around the house.
This is why Kindling’s Gentle alerts only speak while Kindling is open. They are a clock on the table, not a tracker in the cloud. For a pill, a walk, a glass of water, that is the right volume: enough to notice, not enough to brace.
“Standardize before you optimize.”
Set one time. Hear it for a week before you add another. Standardize the knock. The optimization can wait. The flame likes a familiar sound.