A framework for managing chronic conditions through observation, not optimization. Six layers of privacy-first tracking designed to work when you're at 20% capacity. No wellness culture. No optimization theater. Just visibility into how you actually operate.
The Six-Layer Framework
A geological model of chronic condition experience — from daily physical baseline to collective impact
Each layer captures a different depth of daily experience. None requires improvement from the layer above it. The six layers are a landscape, not a ladder.
Read the Framework
Weekly posts on Substack exploring each layer in depth — the geology, the tools, the practice. Free to read. Voluntary patronage launching May 1, 2026.
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Process over goals
No optimization pressure. No performance metrics. Just observation of what's real without requiring it to improve.
20% capacity design
Works when you're exhausted, brain-fogged, overwhelmed. No decisions you don't have energy for. Simple, clear, immediate.
Privacy-first
All tracking is client-side. Your data stays on your device. No servers, no accounts, no surveillance. Built-in backup so you never lose your data.
Not wellness culture
No toxic positivity. No suffering olympics. No credential worship. Your baseline is your baseline. Dignity without performance.
About Still
Still was built by Drew Hyde — a chronic condition patient, disability rights advocate, and enterprise systems architect who has spent thirty years watching the gap between what technology assumes about human functioning and what daily life with a chronic condition actually requires.
Still emerged from the observation that most condition management tools are built for people who are already doing well. The Six-Layer Framework is designed from the opposite direction: it starts with the assumption that the person using it may have almost nothing left, and builds from there.
Still is published as a Substack and hosted as a free, privacy-first tool suite at still.support. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit application is in progress. Clinical partnerships are open.