Effort is a codebase that transforms the blank canvas, and limitless potential of a spreadsheet into a motivating and enduring journal and planner.

How It Works

Log your tasks

Watch your metrics populate

Tasks entered in the “DailyPlanner” automatically transfer to the master “TaskList”

DailyPlanner

Work in the DailyPlanner or in the TaskList directly — everything is recorded so you can focus on what truly matters — not organizing your organizer.

TaskList

Task Qualities

  • Inertia

    A measure of how much internal resistance you feel to completing a task.

  • Intensity

    A measure of how much focus (or intensity) you placed into a task.

    A hallmark characteristic of high effort activities.

  • Impact

    A measure of how much completing a task affects your life and drives it forward.

  • Time

    Roughly the time it took, in hours, to complete a task. A very important metric of effort.

  • Effort

    The defining currency in which you get to accumulate, and potentially, with good fortune, future spend.

    This measure is calculated for you as:

    Intensity x Time

  • Grit

    A hallmark measure of our most diligent, industrious, and resilient.

    This measure is calculated for you as:

    Intensity x Time x Inertia^2

Bring continuity to your Todo list

Pillars

Keep what’s important to you front and center

Categorize your tasks to a list of Pillars of your choosing.

Stack currencies more important than money.

Start your days fresh with yesterday just a scroll away

  • Time-driven triggers automatically “turn the page”

  • Previous days’ contents is readily at hand

  • Entries automatically logged to the Index for easy look-up

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