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

The method

The Rule of Three.

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

Mac, iPhone, iPad & Duo

One day, every device

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

  • 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

Free and Pro

Plan with Pro

Free to download, with two weeks of Pro. Everything in plain Tempo stays free; Pro adds the rest, on every device.

FeatureFreePro
Today, the three, the Inbox and the Journal ✓ ✓
Week, month, quarter and year pages ✓ ✓
Find and tags ✓ ✓
Drafts 3 ∞
Focus timer and its week — ✓
Ask AI, with changes you apply — ✓
Agenda, board and lists — ✓
Reflections, reviews and the Mind Sweep — ✓
Shelf — ✓

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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.