Roadmap
What is real, and what is not yet.
Software roadmaps usually blur the line between shipped and hoped-for. These three lists are sorted by how much you should believe them.
Available now
Built, working, and what ships for Mosaic. If it is on this list you can hold it.
- Mark a moment with one button
- A pin, a timestamp, and a koan sealed with it. Nothing else is required of you in the moment.
- Hold-to-record voice notes
- Walkie-talkie style, with the screen dark the whole time. Recorded as MP4 so it still plays back on anything, including inside an exported journal opened on someone else’s phone.
- A photo you do not look at
- No viewfinder, no review, no retake. You see it for the first time during decompression.
- Private journaling, fully offline
- Come back whenever you are ready and write the story. No signal needed at any point, ever.
- Installable, with no account
- No app store, no sign-up, no email. Add it to your home screen and it is yours.
- Export to a single file
- One self-contained page with the photos and audio inside it, that opens in any browser forever. Prints as a zine.
- Back Tap and icon shortcuts
- Double-tap the back of an iPhone, or long-press the icon on Android, to land straight in capture mode without hunting for anything.
Coming next
Designed, understood, and genuinely intended. Not promised with a date.
- Proximity memories
- A semi-private tier visible only to people who were actually near you at the time, surfaced later during decompression rather than at the spot.
- Camp and landmark tagging
- Place a memory by name on the event’s own illustrated map, by search or by tapping. No GPS calibration, works in advance and from home.
- Person tagging, as a request
- Tag someone and they are asked, not told. If they are on the app they can link their own version of the same moment.
- The week of prompts
- One unwritten memory at a time rather than forty at once, handed to you as fast as you will take them, for the week after the event while the feel of it is still there. Then it stops. The only counter in the app counts down to nothing and then leaves you alone. One returns unannounced a year later.
Someday
Direction, not commitment. Some of this needs hardware, some needs a community, and some of it may turn out to be a bad idea.
- A live dot on a calibrated map
- Realistic for events on owned land, where reference points can be surveyed once and reused every year.
- The four-dimensional map
- Space plus time, built only from memories people chose to publish, accumulating across years into a record of what a place has meant.
- Tap two phones together
- NFC to link a shared moment and open the ability to message later, with no contact details exchanged and either side able to withdraw at any time.
- A native Android app
- The only way to get a true screen-off gesture trigger. Browsers suspend JavaScript the moment the screen goes dark, so a web app cannot do it on either platform.
- A Bluetooth talisman
- A small button on a wrist strap or lanyard. Deterministic, works with the screen off, and no false positives from guessing at gestures.
Why there is no map underneath the pins
The playback plots your night as points in relation to each other, with nothing behind them. That is a deliberate choice rather than a missing feature. Offline map tiles are heavy and licence-encumbered, a grey street map of a field is uglier than the void, and neither one tells you anything you did not already know.
Real coordinates are recorded on every capture regardless, so when this does grow an illustrated event map — and eventually the shared map across years — nothing has to be collected again. The data is already there and waiting.