Getting started

From creating your account to your first Timeline — the guided path through SandDune.

• What is SandDune?SandDune turns the notebooks on your shelf into a living memory you can search, question, and watch grow — without giving up the pen.
• Create your accountSign up with your email, confirm it, and log in — about two minutes from start to finish.
• Upload and transcribe your first notePhotograph a handwritten page, tap Transcribe, and watch it become searchable text — one button, no filing.
• Explore the Note ViewerThe full-screen reading experience — zoom into your handwriting, swipe between pages, and pull up the transcription.
• Edit your transcriptionTranscriptions are yours to correct — fix a single word right on the page, or edit the whole text.
• Search your notesType a word into the search bar and find the page you wrote it on — across every notebook you've ever filled.
• Ask your first questionAsk a question in plain language and get an answer drawn from your own pages — with citations back to every page it used.
• Organize with NotebooksGroup your pages into collections — a dream journal, a project log, morning pages — and search or Ask within just one of them.
• Star your notesMark the pages that matter most, then filter your dashboard down to just them — alone or combined with a keyword search.
• Create your first TimelineSave a question you care about and re-ask it over time — each answer becomes a dated entry on a growing thread.
• Explore the interactive calendarBrowse your writing month by month — every day shows the page you wrote, and empty days are one tap from being filled.
• Track your writing habitStreaks, milestones, and Monthly Artifacts — a quiet record of your practice that proves the journaling is doing something.
• GlossaryEvery SandDune term in a few sentences — what it means and where to learn more.