A personal operating system

Become who you want to be

You're becoming someone who follows through

Nine tools for the life you're building. Everything you write stays on your device — we never see any of it.

Coming to iOS
The idea

Identity, not discipline

Most productivity apps are built around discipline. Miss a day and they let you know. Break a streak and they make sure you feel it. The logic is that guilt is motivating — and for a week or two, it is.

SORTD is built around identity instead. You decide who you're becoming, and the work follows from that. Goals hang off who you're trying to be. Habits are evidence, not obligations.

There are no streaks to break here, and nothing designed to make you feel behind. A quiet week is a quiet week. You pick it back up when you're ready, and the app is exactly where you left it.

The difference

Same fortnight,
two different feelings

Eleven runs in fourteen days. Three missed. Here's how that gets shown to you.

Morning run
Last fourteen days
11
Days you ran
Eleven runs this fortnight. That's evidence you're someone who runs.

The data is identical. Only the framing changes — and the framing is the entire product.

What's inside

Nine tools, one system

Each has its own colour, so you always know where you are. They wake as you reach them, then settle back down.

Habits

The repeated things that quietly make you who you are.

Goals

Milestones that ladder up to something you actually want.

Tasks

The near work, without the pile-up of everything you haven't done.

Journal

Morning and evening pages, in your own words.

Today

Build the day in blocks, so it holds together before it starts.

Events

What's coming, without living inside a calendar all day.

Ideas

Somewhere for the thought you'll want again in six months.

Brain dump

Empty your head first. Sort it into the right place after.

Focus

One thing at a time, for as long as you said you'd give it.

Privacy

It stays
on your phone

Your journal, habits, goals, tasks and notes are stored in your device's own storage. They are never uploaded and never shared. We couldn't read them if we wanted to — we don't have them.

The only thing we hold is the email address and password you sign in with, so that you can sign back in.

  • Noanalytics. We don't measure what you do in the app.
  • Notracking. Nothing follows you around the internet.
  • Noadvertising. Not now, not later.
  • Noprofiling. We're not building a picture of you.
  • Noselling. There's nothing to sell, and we wouldn't.
Availability

Nearly there

SORTD is finished and in testing. It's heading to the App Store shortly — Android follows once iOS is settled.

iOS — coming shortly
Android — after iOS
Web — in testing