The Lantern

For a voice still here.

Voice is the person the lantern serves — their words get readings to choose from. Keeper is whoever tends the lantern with them — keeper words go straight into the record, as context, with no readings. Switch before tapping the lantern.

Tap the lantern, speak, then tap again.

The Record

verbatim confirmed-reading chosen keeper

Every line remembers where its words came from: verbatim — their exact words, untouched; confirmed-reading — a reading they chose by tap (it keeps the original fragment underneath, always); chosen — words they picked by hand; keeper — the companion speaking for themself. The lantern never writes a line of its own.

Nothing yet. What gets through appears here.

The Prism

Without these notes, a model falls back on what “a patient” generically wants. The prism bends every reading toward this person instead: their people, their places, their private words. It rides along with each reading and is stored nowhere else — on this device in cloud mode, in prism.json at the hearth. More in the Book →

The prism teaches the lantern this person’s own words and world, so it never falls back on generic guesses. It is the only personalization there is — sent with every reading, remembered nowhere else. Delete a line and it is gone from all future readings immediately.

Name People (one per line, e.g. “Kirsti - wife”) Common needs (one per line — these become the quick words) Favorite words & phrases (one per line) Places (one per line) Notes from family (e.g. “She says ‘the cold thing’ for the refrigerator.”)

Voice & light

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The Record

Records save to a local file on this machine, every word tagged with where it came from. The lantern forgets; the record is yours.

The Book

The story, the working, the rite itself, how to use this, and what is forbidden — all of it, in one place.

Open the Book of the Lantern