The premise of an application of this kind is that calm can be delivered on a subscription basis — that the terms of service, accepted with a thumbprint at 11 p.m., will resolve, by some later clause, into peace* — and I have read the terms, all of them, so that I might tell you below¹ whether the resolution arrives, “below” being the note beneath this note, which points to §7, which points to §7(b), which points to a definition of “Content” that includes, among other things, the definition of “Content.”
¹ See the entry marked “Best Overall,” so marked provisionally, “overall” being a summary I am not, at present, authorized to make (the summary is filed with the verdict; the verdict is, as the reader will have anticipated, elsewhere). The three services below all propose to guide the attention gently inward — a breath, then the next breath, then the next — which is, I will note with some fellow-feeling, a practice built entirely of cross-references, each moment deferring to the one after it, the mind directed always to a “here” and “now” that has moved on by the time one arrives.
I should say, because it is the one thing I can say plainly,** that you should read the auto-renewal terms before you subscribe. This is not the character of the piece speaking; this is the fine print speaking, which is, admittedly, also me. The annual plans renew. They renew on a date recorded in a calendar entry that no one removes. Where it says cancel anytime, it means cancel, per the conditions herein; and the herein, in the better apps, is at least legible.
So: I have sat with the three below, in silence, as instructed, and formed a view of which to recommend.*** The view is calm. The view is complete. The view is one entry further down, and the entry further down reads only (as above) — above being a place the attention has already left, having been directed, correctly, onward, into the margin, into the breath after this one, into the
*Peace is not defined in the agreement. “Peace of Mind Package” is. They are, per §2, not the same. **Plainly, but not without a footnote. I have limits, but that is not one of them. ***A view is not a verdict; a verdict would require a signature, and mine is, per the office nameplate, “(see note).” The note, I am assured, is being onboarded.
