Welcome

On the days when everything feels like too much, Lettuce asks only one thing: what do you need right now? Not tomorrow, not in an hour — right now.

Some people use it for a quick gratitude note. Others sit with a breathing exercise or a short reflection prompt. There's no right way.

The layout adapts to what you bring to it.

Stillness isn't emptiness. It's the act of choosing, consciously, to stop accumulating input for a moment and let what's already there settle.

Research on attention restoration theory suggests that brief periods of undirected thought — what psychologists call soft fascination — help the prefrontal cortex recover its capacity for directed focus. Lettuce is designed around this idea.

Every session begins with a prompt that's deliberately low-stakes. Not "what are your goals for today" but "what color is your mood right now?" or "name one thing you noticed this morning." Small anchors. Easy entry points.

From there, the space opens up. You might write a few lines. You might not write anything at all. You might simply sit with the background sound and let the timer run. Any of those is a valid use.

Over time, patterns emerge. Not the kind of patterns a productivity app would surface — streaks, completion rates, velocity — but quieter ones. The days you tend to show up. The prompts that consistently land. The moods that cluster around certain times of year.

Lettuce surfaces these gently, without turning them into metrics to optimize. Because optimizing stillness defeats the point.

The third space — between home and work — used to be a physical place. The coffee shop. The park bench. The commute, even. Screens have slowly colonized those gaps. Lettuce is a small attempt to carve one back.