Tempo

Three Outcomes.Daily. Weekly. Monthly. Yearly.

Live by your own outcomes — yours, not someone else's.

Today — the three outcomes, the inbox pulled under them, the journal below
The week: three outcomes, the days under them
The month at a glance
Focus, with the week's statistics
Friday reflection, the week's days beside it
The month as a mind map
Balance: the why-nots and the life areas
The journal, day by day
The agenda, by days
The agenda as a board: to do, in progress, waiting, done
The agenda as a matrix
The shelf: projects, areas, resources, archive
  • A shelf for your PARA
  • Org and Markdown
  • Areas & perspectives
  • Focus brings you back to your outcomes
  • Drafts do the math
  • Focus: free or Pomodoro
  • Smart agenda

iPhone & iPad

One day, every device

The same three outcomes and the same files, on the iPhone and the iPad.

  • Drafts and buffers across your devices
  • Journal across devices
  • Capture from anywhere
  • Focus in your pocket

Drafts

Drafts do the math

Write it as you think — sums, dates, units, hours. The answer stands in the margin as you type.

Agenda

Catch it anywhere

A to-do can start anywhere — in a draft, a note, the Journal or the Inbox. Give it a day and the Agenda gathers it.

  • A draft with a time
  • A note with a deadline
  • A to-do in the Journal
  • Inbox: just say when
  • One Agenda holds them all

Your files

Files you own

No account. You own your Org or Markdown vault — nothing else.

Plain Org or Markdown. Every page is a plain .org or .md file — open it in any editor, search it, keep it forever.

Denote comes along. The notes you already keep open as they are, ready on day one.

The page as the app shows it
The same page as its plain file
The page The file

The method

The Rule of Three.

Pick a twelve-week year and your outcomes arrive sooner. When no one knows what tomorrow brings — and in wartime no one does — a close finish line is the one that counts.

Day → Week → Month → Year

Built on

01Day · Week

Agile Results

J.D. Meier

The Rule of Three. Three outcomes for the day, week, month, year. Three is the number your brain can hold while it lives the day.

02Capture · Review

GTD

Getting Things Done · David Allen

Capture everything, decide once, review weekly. The Inbox, the Agenda and the Friday reflection are the GTD discipline, in your own files.

03Year

The 12 Week Year

Brian Moran

Your year, your pick: the twelve months of the calendar, or twelve weeks for a faster finish. A closer outcome is a better outcome — urgency creates focus, distance creates drift.

Books behind Tempo — the reading list on Amazon

Pricing

Plan with Pro

Tempo is free forever: your day and three outcomes at every scope, the Inbox and the Journal. Pro adds focus, the reviews and the views — bought once. The first 14 days are all of it, free. One key for the Mac and the iPhone — nothing paid twice.

Tempo Pro

A year of updates included — keeps working forever on the version you have.

FeatureFreePro
Today, with the day's three outcomes ✓ ✓
Week, Month, Quarter, Year: three outcomes each ✓ ✓
Inbox, Journal, Find and Tags ✓ ✓
Plain-text Markdown or Org files in your folder, iCloud sync ✓ ✓
Drafts 3 No limit
Focus timer and sessions — ✓
Week plan, reflections, the quarter's mind sweep — ✓
Agenda, Board, Matrix, Mind map, Graph — ✓
Echo: this day, years ago — ✓
Almanac: the year at a glance — ✓
Shelf for your files — ✓
Writing insights and preview — ✓
One key: the Mac and the iPhone — ✓
AI assistant, with your own model — ✓
Money-back guarantee. Refunds follow Apple's App Store rules.

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News

What's new in Tempo

A short mail now and then: what is new in Tempo and what is coming. No account, one click to leave.