Daily photo prompts for couples

A daily photo prompt is the easiest ritual a couple can keep, and the best one for distance. It takes ten seconds, it needs no words, and a year later you have a journal of ordinary days that turned out to matter.

These are the prompts from the we2gether photo deck. Themed prompts are announced in the morning so you can look out for them. Surprise prompts ping at a random moment and you have to shoot whatever is in front of you.

120 on this page, 237 in the app

How to use them

  1. One prompt a day, both of you post, and do not look at theirs until you have posted yours. The app enforces that, but the honour system works too.
  2. Surprise prompts are meant to be answered within a few minutes. Whatever you are looking at is the answer.
  3. Keep everything. The boring ones become the good ones.

Themed prompts

Announced in the morning. You have all day.

  1. The sky right now
  2. What you are eating
  3. Your view from where you sit
  4. Something that made you think of them today
  5. Your shoes today
  6. The last thing that made you smile
  7. Something yellow
  8. Something purple
  9. Your drink of the day
  10. A texture you like
  11. Where you wish they were standing
  12. Your hand doing whatever it is doing
  13. The messiest corner near you
  14. Something older than both of you
  15. A flower, any flower
  16. Your lunch, no styling allowed
  17. The best light in your day
  18. Something tiny
  19. Something you want to show them
  20. Something green
  21. Something blue
  22. Something red
  23. Something orange
  24. Something pink
  25. Something brown
  26. Something silver or gold
  27. The most colourful thing near you
  28. Your bag, emptied out a little
  29. Your desk, honestly
  30. The inside of your fridge
  31. Your bedside table
  32. The contents of your pocket
  33. Your keys
  34. Your phone case
  35. Whatever is charging right now
  36. The pen nearest to you
  37. Your mug
  38. Your water bottle
  39. The last thing you bought
  40. Something you borrowed and never gave back
  41. Something you keep meaning to fix
  42. Something you are hoarding
  43. Your handwriting on something
  44. The most useless thing you own
  45. The most useful thing you own
  46. Something with a story behind it
  47. Something you would grab in a fire
  48. The strangest thing in your bag
  49. Something made of wood
  50. Something you fixed yourself
  51. The junk drawer
  52. Something you have had since school
  53. A pattern near you
  54. Something shiny
  55. Something round
  56. A shadow you like
  57. Something reflective
  58. The closest thing to you that is cold
  59. The closest thing to you that is warm
  60. The clouds today

Surprise prompts

Pinged at a random moment. Shoot what is in front of you.

  1. Wherever you are, right now
  2. What is in your hand
  3. Point the camera up
  4. Point the camera down
  5. The nearest window
  6. Whatever is on your screen (keep it honest)
  7. The nearest human or animal
  8. Something within arm's reach you love
  9. Whatever is in front of you, no tidying first
  10. The floor, exactly where you are standing
  11. The ceiling above you
  12. That wall you are closest to
  13. Spin around and shoot whatever is behind you
  14. The mess you were just about to hide
  15. Whatever is nearest your left foot
  16. The last thing you touched before this
  17. Chase whatever noise you can hear right now
  18. The closest door to you
  19. A light switch, any light switch
  20. Whatever is on the surface nearest you
  21. The thing you nearly stepped on
  22. Whichever chair is closest, sat in or not
  23. Anything within one step of you
  24. A label, the nearest one you can find
  25. Grab whatever you would take in ten seconds flat
  26. The corner of the room behind you
  27. Whatever is lowest to the ground near you
  28. What you are leaning on, if anything
  29. The thing that just caught your eye
  30. A bit of clutter, wherever it is
  31. Straight up above your head
  32. Something near you that is not yours
  33. Whatever your foot is nudging
  34. A surface you have not cleaned in a while
  35. Whatever you are sitting or standing on
  36. The thing near you making the most noise
  37. Whatever is closest to its use by date
  38. Your other hand
  39. Both hands, whatever they are up to
  40. Whatever is in your pocket, pull it out
  41. Your wrist, whatever is on it
  42. Your lock screen, this second
  43. The last app you had open
  44. Whichever tab has been open longest
  45. Your last search, censored or not
  46. That notification you still have not opened
  47. The photo right before this one
  48. Whatever is playing, if anything is
  49. Your charger, wherever it ended up
  50. Your battery percentage, made interesting somehow
  51. A website still open from last night
  52. The last emoji you used, no context
  53. The nearest pet, yours or not
  54. Whatever just made that noise
  55. The last person you spoke to, or an empty chair
  56. Whoever just walked past you
  57. Point the camera left
  58. Point the camera right
  59. Point the camera at your feet
  60. Point at whatever is loudest right now

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Weekly Check In in we2gether hides each answer until you have both replied, keeps score, and draws from the full deck of 237. Free, in the browser, nothing to install.

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Questions people ask

How does the photo reveal work?
In we2gether neither photo shows until both of you have posted. Then they appear side by side in a shared journal that is kept forever, with reactions and comments.
Are the photos private?
Yes. The journal is only ever visible to the two paired accounts, with strict row level access on the server.

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