Refined through years of experimentation and conversations, Ping Practice encourages you to "take pictures" of placeless thoughts so that you can more easily return to them later.

Like taking a screenshot of your mind

You can think of the Ping Practice app like a camera.

When you feel moved by a thought, idea, feeling, etc., Ping Practice invites you to type it out and let it go. We call these “messages from the universe” — Pings.

No tagging. In these fleeting moments, you are simply creating a breadcrumb for your future self.

A place for placeless thoughts

The app places Pings in time and logs metadata about the moments they emerge within. This way, you can find your way back and navigate around just like you would in your phone’s camera roll.

Decouple sensing and sense-making

When you are ready to revisit, Ping Practice offers a couple of ways to browse…

If you are looking for something specific, you can quickly search across your entire corpus of pings.

If you are wanting to wander, you can swipe through a range of filters the Ping Practice app automatically builds for you.

Regardless of how you arrive, when you happen upon a Ping that speaks to you, the app enables you to:

1. Browse others like it by tapping the Ping's metadata

2. Re-Ping Pings you want to remember

3. Reply to Pings there is more to say about

4. Hide Pings you would like some distance from

Private, offline and always available

The Ping Practice app works entirely offline.

This means Pings are stored, and automatically backed up, to a CSV file on your device.

Wisdom surfaces in our senses

Ping Practice assumes wisdom surfaces in our senses and becomes coherent through reflection.

This app is taking form in a moment where the power of reflection and journaling is known and how to integrate these practices into daily life remains a challenge.

Ping Practice bridges this gap by drawing on our familiarity with cameras and reimagining them as tools for inner exploration.

With support from APOSSIBLE, the Ping Practice Team has been able to transform the first three steps of the Ping Practice Method into an app we can now all try.

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Related Research

In one sense Ping Practice helps us tune into what we are feeling while becoming more mindful observers of our thoughts. But Ping Practice is also a tool for processing experiences and learning about ourselves.

James Pennebaker’s seminal work on the therapeutic effects of expressive writing show that externalizing thoughts and feelings reduces stress and enhances cognitive functioning. White and Epston’s Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends builds on Pennebaker, showing how the expression of inner states in writing gives us perspective and ultimately creative agency in determining what our thoughts and feelings mean and how we will make sense of them.

For more theoretical and practical references, explore Ping Practice's connections below.