Glossary/What we mean by what we say
23 terms
Plain language for
everything we use.
Every site has its own dialect. This is ours, written down so you do not have to guess. If you find a term we use that is not in here, let us know and we will add it.
§ 01Journeys
6 terms- Crisis
- One of three journey categories. For the moments nobody prepared you for: separation, redundancy, a diagnosis. Stabilise first, then rebuild.
- Field note
- A short, stand-alone essay published weekly under /resources. Not part of any journey. Practical, first-person, five to ten minutes.
- Journey
- A finishable sequence of modules read in order. Designed for a specific transition (separation, fatherhood, fitness rebuild) rather than as an open-ended feed.
- Life event
- One of three journey categories. The transitions that redefine you for better or worse: a new baby, a new house, a new role.
- Long game
- One of three journey categories. Slower work that compounds: fitness, money, the mind. Years rather than weeks.
- Module
- A single unit inside a journey. Five to twenty minutes of reading, occasionally with an exercise to do offline. Always finishable in one sitting.
§ 02Tracker
8 terms- Body
- One of the three tracker domains. Holds weight, blood pressure, sleep, training and any other physical metric you choose to log.
- Goal
- A target you set inside the tracker. Rendered against actuals so you can see whether you are on track without having to do the maths.
- Health metric
- Any single body measurement you log over time. Weight, resting heart rate, body fat, blood pressure. Each metric carries its own trendline.
- Mind
- One of the three tracker domains. Mood, sleep quality, journaling, meditation, anything that captures internal weather.
- Money
- One of the three tracker domains. Accounts, balances, net worth, monthly cash flow. Built on a finance graph so every figure is traceable.
- Net worth
- Your total assets minus your total liabilities, calculated automatically from the accounts you connect or log manually. Updated whenever a balance changes.
- Streak
- A run of consecutive days you logged a recurring action. Used for habit tracking without nagging or notifications.
- Today
- Your daily home inside the app once you are signed in. One page that surfaces what to log, what is trending and what to do next. The tracker condensed into a single screen.
§ 03The market
5 terms- Listed
- The lowest of three vetting tiers. Confirmed real entity with valid contact details. No quality claim: we have not personally engaged or peer-checked them.
- Partner group
- A firm that has multiple offices listed separately. The partner_group field links them so a multi-state law firm reads as one organisation, not five strangers.
- Reviewed
- The middle vetting tier. Has public peer recognition (Doyles Guide, charity register entry) or third-party accreditation, with citations on the profile.
- Vetted
- The top vetting tier. Personally engaged by HisJourney. We have spoken to them or worked with them ourselves before listing them.
- Vetting tier
- The three-step honesty system used across the partner directory: listed, reviewed, vetted. Stops us from passing off bulk-imported entries as personally endorsed ones.
§ 04Editorial
4 terms- In this issue
- The editorial framing on the home page. We treat the site like a slow quarterly: a small set of things worth your attention, not an infinite feed.
- Kicker
- The small all-caps label sitting above a heading or section. Used as a visual section marker (§ 01, § Field note) borrowed from print magazine layouts.
- Pull
- A pulled quote or italicised line set bigger than body text to break a long block. Editorial device, not a UI affordance.
- TL;DR
- The summary line at the top of every field note. Both a reading shortcut for humans and a labelled summary for AI extractors.