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
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
You do not need another folder of things you once liked.
You need a way back to why they mattered—and what they might become now.
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”
Recall by feeling, not filename.
Return through color, atmosphere, source, time, or half-remembered fragments and recover a direction you can use.
Find “that cold green light”
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.