Tempo
Three Outcomes.Daily. Weekly. Monthly. Yearly.
Live by your own outcomes — yours, not someone else's.












- 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 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
Agile Results
J.D. MeierThe Rule of Three. Three outcomes for the day, week, month, year. Three is the number your brain can hold while it lives the day.
GTD
Getting Things Done · David AllenCapture everything, decide once, review weekly. The Inbox, the Agenda and the Friday reflection are the GTD discipline, in your own files.
The 12 Week Year
Brian MoranYour 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.
$49.99once
Available on the App Store| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | ✓ |
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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.