Catch it before you categorize it.
Save an image, a line, a link, or a passing feeling while it is still alive. Meaning can come later.
Paste · Drop · Note
Private aesthetic memory
Keep what
moves you.
Linger is a private aesthetic memory for the images, words, sounds, and moments you want to work with again.
Private beta
A few things
worth keeping.
Illustrative collection
The blue before evening
Light, held still
A familiar rhythm
A memory that works like you do.
Remember in your own language.
Keep the private, imprecise words that make a reference yours—not just the categories a machine can recognize.
“quiet danger” · “thin air” · “old, not nostalgic”
Find it from what you remember.
Describe the details that stayed with you—a horse in the scene, someone in a swimming pool. Start with what you remember, even when the rest is hazy.
“a horse by the water”
“someone in a swimming pool”
Your references stay yours.
Linger is local-first and private by default. Your original files stay where you keep them; your aesthetic memory is not a public performance.