FLORILEGIUM
flor·i·le·gi·um — a gathering of flowers. The medieval word for a book of passages copied out by hand: what one reader chose to keep.
Florilegium is a small free tool that leaves one line a day at the bottom of the window where you work. Reading it takes a few seconds. That's the whole product.
Intelligence got cheap. Most of what you read now came out of a model, and you can tell. Spend all day with that voice and your own sentences start to drift toward it.
There is an old fix. For centuries readers kept commonplace books: notebooks where they copied out, by hand, the passages they wanted to keep. The copying was slow, and that was the point. Choosing a passage word by word taught you what you loved.
Florilegium does the daily part for you. Each morning it sets one thing at the bottom of your screen. Usually a word you have read a hundred times and never once written. Some weeks it is a passage: Marcus Aurelius at dawn, seven mornings in a row, in George Long's 1862 translation, quoted exactly. Once in a while it is a picture, a sudden shower over a wooden bridge cut in 1857, small enough to sit in the corner of your eye. There is no feed underneath, no streak to keep, nothing to sign up for.
None of this makes you wiser by Friday. But the words stay, because they show up next to your own work instead of in a quiz. After a month or two you catch it happening: a sharper word offering itself while you type, or a line from Seneca surfacing in a hard meeting. What you gathered starts to show up on its own.
Taste is how you choose; values are why.
Both are gathered along the way.
bash florilegium/plugin/scripts/install.sh
free · everything stays on your machine · it speaks only when spoken to