Post the thing you would have posted, to a timeline nobody else can see.
How it works
Text, a photograph, where you were and how you felt. It lands on your own timeline and stays on your machine, which is the entire point.
Bench finally moved, at four minutes past seven, at the gym. Small numbers, big feeling, and enough to find the day again in a year.
No followers, no replies, no number going up. You keep the part of posting that was ever any good, which is writing it down while it still feels like something.
Asked about Social Timeline
Post the thing you would have posted, to a timeline nobody else can see. Text, a photograph, where you were and how you felt. It lands on your own timeline and stays on your machine, which is the entire point.
Yes. The library in Settings has a switch beside Social Timeline, and turning it off takes it out of the sidebar, the search and the Today screen. The other 26 switchable modules work the same way.
Yes, once iCloud sync is unlocked for $14.99, paid once and covering the Mac and the iPhone together. Until then Social Timeline keeps its data on the device you typed it into, and it goes nowhere else.