Small Deeds: Goal Journal

Write a line about what you did for your big goal today. Watch your road of days grow. No streaks to break, no guilt for pauses, no subscription.

Setting a big goal is easy. Learn a language, write a book, train for a marathon. A few weeks later it gets hard: you can't see your progress, a couple of missed days start to feel like failure, and you can't remember what you've already done.

Small Deeds is a quiet place to write down what you did for your goal today: a done list and an achievement log in one. It takes about thirty seconds. Over time you get an honest record of the road you've traveled, and nothing in the app shames you for taking a break.

WRITE WHAT YOU DID • One text field and a Save button. That's the whole entry. • Write as often as you like. Everything you write for a project on a given day becomes one journal entry for that day. • There are no "skipped" or "missed" buttons. You only record what you actually did. • Entries follow your local day. Late-night notes written before 4 AM default to "yesterday," and you can switch that with one tap.

A ROAD, NOT A STREAK Each project has a road. Every day you write something adds one marker. Below it you'll see a simple count, like "41 days with entries · since March 2." The number only grows. It never resets, and there are no freezes, "longest streak" stats, or empty-day warnings.

MILESTONES ON THE HORIZON Keep a short list of milestones you can see ahead. Reorder them and cross them off when you get there. Crossed-off milestones stay in your history with the date. There are no deadlines, tasks, or subtasks, because this isn't a planner.

GENTLE CONVERSATIONS WITH YOURSELF • Evening question: at most one notification a day, at a time you pick, asking how things went with a project you haven't written about yet. If you've written about every project, it doesn't send. Turn it off with one switch. • "Why do you think you're stuck?": if a project goes 5 full days without an entry, a card on the home screen asks, kindly. You can answer or tap "Not now." • "Do you feel progress?": once a month, a space for how you feel compared to a month ago. Your answers are saved as dated Conversations in the project journal. They're kept separate from your entries and don't add markers to the road.

FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS Keep up to three projects open at once. Each one gets a name and a color, and the name is always shown next to the color. Archive a project when it's finished or on hold. Archived projects can still be read and exported, and you can bring them back.

ALWAYS FREE • One-tap export to Markdown, JSON, or CSV: one project or all of them, including the archive, milestones, and Conversations • Shortcuts, Siri, and Spotlight actions: Add Entry and Open Project • Optional lock with Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode • A short, verified quote about small steps on empty screens, changing once a day • Support for every calendar system, right-to-left languages, and Dynamic Type • Designed for iPhone Duo, with a split view on the inner screen

MULTITASKING VERSION (ONE-TIME PURCHASE) • Up to 7 open projects. The cap stays at seven because the app is about choosing what matters. • Recaps: a monthly story of everything you did for each goal, plus a "year of the journey" counted from the day you started, not from January 1 • Widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen: "Today for the Goal" and "On the Horizon" • Calm themes, each with light and dark versions • iCloud sync across your devices. Entries from the same day are merged, never overwritten, and your full history moves with you to a new iPhone.

TIP JAR If you'd like to support the developer, you can leave a tip. Tips unlock nothing. You get a thank-you, and that's it.

No subscription. No AI summaries. Just your own words about the goal you're working toward.