Most journals ask how your day was. This one asks what you turned away from.
A daily practice built on Objectivism, written from scratch. Nothing leaves your phone, because there is nowhere for it to go.
Free. No account, and no email asked for.
Three check-ins, and they are linked
Without the link it is a diary. With it, it is a method.
Morning · the premise
Opens by handing you back the premise last night's audit asked you to check.
Midday · the check
Four questions, while there are still hours left to change the day.
Evening · the audit
Asks what you turned away from, and ends by asking for the premise underneath it.
What is in it
Written out, not quoted.
Every word is original. Nothing paraphrases anyone sentence by sentence, there are no long quotations, and the running order is ours.
The comparison track
Objectivism next to everything else.
Stoicism, Aristotle, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, utilitarianism, effective altruism, postmodernism, the wellness industry — and the arguments Objectivists are still having with each other, with both sides named.
State the other side well enough that someone who holds it would nod.
A strawman converts nobody. If a reader can tell we have not understood the thing we are dismissing, they will assume we have not understood the thing we are selling either.
What it does not do
No account. No server. No feed.
- There is no sign-in, because there is nothing to sign in to.
- Every answer is written to a database on your own phone.
- A button writes the whole thing out as a file you keep.
- No analytics, no advertising ID, no tracking of any kind.
- No streak guilt and no notification you did not ask for.
Status
Not released yet.
Android first. There is no iOS build and none is planned until Android ships.
The content is finished — 97 concepts, 97 daily entries, all 19 comparison sessions. The app runs. What is not done is everything that needs a real device: reminders have never actually fired, and it has only ever run on an emulator.
There is no billing and nothing charges anybody.
Launch notice
One email, on the day it ships.
The app is not out yet. Leave an address and you get one message when the Android build lands, and a second one if iOS ever follows.
Optional. No newsletter, no second list, and no account is made.
Noted. One message, and nothing after it.
Get it
One tap, and nothing to fill in.
No sign-up screen stands between the tap and the first entry.