A self-awareness tool that helps you notice and move with intention, to fully inhabit the life that you want.
Instead of writing pages about your day, you make a few simple choices about how you’ve been, what you’ve done, and what matters to you.
How it works
- Today. Once a day, a few clicks: what you did, and which way you were facing. No essay. For me that’s two, three minutes and done.
- The Passage. When you’ve come back round, you close a stretch of days, and that’s when the why gets asked: what helped, and what you’d reach for next time.
- Your Goldilocks. The whole picture: your categories, your people, what you’ve been doing and how often. It doesn’t ask you anything. It shows you.
What shapes it
- Papa BearI did something.Directed focus.
- Mama BearI tended myself.Your mind could wander.
- Baby BearI connected with someone.Someone who mattered.
Each bear is a question you ask about your day, and you answer with what you did. Cleaning is Papa Bear when your focus went into the job, and Mama Bear when it grounded you while your mind wandered. It isn’t a productivity score. It shows which parts of you got your attention.
Twenty-two Skies to name the day you had. A Sky isn’t how much energy you had. It’s which way you were facing: inward, outward, or on the way between. And the sky doesn’t judge.
You don’t learn them first: you pick the one that looks like your day, and the compass shows you moving in cycles. Stormy days count too. They’re the push and pull between two directions, and they happen.
Roots are what hold you: the things you already reach for to steady yourself.
Wings are what you reach toward: an intention, not a target.
Your first wing comes from picturing a day you’d recognise as fully yours. Roots you mostly find along the way, in your Passages. You name them in your own words, one thing can be both, and a wing you’ve reached can become a root. Your wings stay on your daily page as a reminder.
For me, stargazing started as a root and became a wing too.
What makes it different
Memory says you’ve been lazy for two weeks. Your days might say something else.
It follows your cycles. Not a week, not a month: your own rhythm. A Passage holds one cycle, and you close it when you’ve come back round.
It doesn’t judge your days. A hard day isn’t a bad day. It’s part of the cycle, and you see it for what it was.
It shows, it doesn’t tell. It keeps what matters to you in view, and never tells you what to do with it.
You decide what it means. What counts as tending yourself, what holds you, where cooking belongs in your life. It’s all up to you.
What it won’t do: no scores, no streaks, no targets, no AI reading your days. Your days stay yours: plain text files in your own folder or cloud, not on a server of mine.
It doesn’t need to be right or wrong. It just needs to be right for you.
Who it’s for
For people whose lives don’t fit neatly into routines, streaks and productivity charts. Whether you’re coming back from a burnout, caught in the push and pull of I have to, but I want this, or simply curious about your own patterns, Goldilocks gives you somewhere to begin.
It was born out of my own burnout. It’s not for getting more done.
Where it is now
In development · Planned release December 2026
Help shape it
I’m looking for a small group of beta testers to help refine Goldilocks before it’s released. We’ll talk in a small Discord server.
What I’ll ask you: how it feels to use. Do you find yourself in the Skies? Does the clicking feel natural? Is something missing, a button you’d want there?
What I won’t ask: anything about your days. Your data stays yours.
Not ready to test?
Follow along on Substack: how it’s being built, the why, and the bits I threw out along the way.
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