Native for macOS · Work in progress · 0.0.1
Notes, habits, the week ahead, that trip you keep thinking about, what you ate, what you lifted. All of it in one native Mac app that keeps the lot on your own machine.
Habits
Every habit gets its own grid, its current run, its best run, and a rate measured from the day you started it. Begin something in March and it will not greet you with 12 percent, which is the sort of thing that makes people quit in April.
Daily, a few times a week, or specific weekdays. Forgot to tick Tuesday? Fill it in from the grid.
Trips
Cover photo, days to go, nights, what you have already paid for, the itinerary, and a packing list that belongs to this trip rather than drifting about in a separate app.
Mention it in a note by typing # and its name. The link stays live and opens the trip.
Kitchen
Recipes with photos, times and servings. A week of meals planned out. And the ingredients you still need, in a shopping list built to be read one handed, in an aisle, rather than squinted at.
Moving about
Command 1 through 4 take you to Today, the planner, notes and habits. Command 0 opens the library, where the other twenty five live. The full list is in Settings, and every menu shows its own next to it.
Everything else
Thirty modules, most of them built on three shared engines, which is why this is one app rather than thirty. The sidebar only shows what you have turned on.
Your machine
Everything lives on your Mac. There is no account, nothing to sign into, and no server to go down, get acquired, or quietly change its terms on a Tuesday. Export the whole lot to one JSON file whenever you like. Clear it and Cadence takes a backup first, because there is no undo and we both know it.
Questions people actually ask
Yes. No account, no subscription, no trial that turns into a subscription while you are not looking.
On your Mac, in the app’s own storage. Nothing is uploaded, because there is nowhere to upload it to. You can export the lot to one JSON file whenever you fancy.
Right click the app and pick Open. That happens because the build is signed for local use rather than notarized, which needs a paid Apple developer account. It is on the list.
Please do not. Most people want five or six. Settings has a switch for every one, and the sidebar only lists what you keep.
Not yet, and the honest reason is that the data model needs work before iCloud will accept it. The iOS build compiles today but has never been run on a phone, so treat it as unwritten.
Settings, then Data, then Export. One JSON file with everything you have typed. Clearing your data takes a backup first, without asking, because there is no undo.