Sayit.Doit.Becomeit.
A to-do list you talk to. It plans your day, and shows you who you’re becoming.
Say it.
Tap Quick Capture and talk, the way you’d tell a friend. It turns it into to-dos.
Or show it.
A photo of the whiteboard, a timetable, a screenshot of a message. It pulls out what needs doing.
It finds the time.
Plan my day gives everything left a time, around your classes, shifts and prayers. A time you set yourself never moves.
It learns your real day.
Planned the gym for 7:00, went at seven in the evening, every time? It noticed. Tomorrow’s plan follows you.
Once a day, it asks how it went.
Two minutes of talking teaches it more than a week of clicks.
Still a really good list.
Projects with headings, habits with streaks, deadlines apart from the day. Keyboard-first, or just start typing.
Nine palettes. Light or dark.
And the five prayers on Today, if you want them, worked out on your device from where you are.
Install it from Chrome.
On your computer or your Android phone. Its own icon, its own window, always up to date.
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Today
How did today go?
Tell Acture what you got done and when. It learns your days from this.
Thesis defence
Three things the room should remember. Nothing else.
You don’t become someone all at once.
That’s the app. Underneath it is an idea about identity: who you are changes the way a habit does, one small piece of proof at a time.
You learn who you are by watching what you do.
We don’t only act on who we think we are; we work out who we are from how we act. Every finished thing, however small, is a piece of evidence.
Self-perception theory · Bem, 1972
Be a runner, not someone trying to run.
Asking people to be something, rather than to do something, changes what they do: in one study, “be a voter” got more people to the polls than “vote”. So name who you’re becoming, and every to-do you finish counts as a vote for them.
Bryan, Walton, Rogers & Dweck, 2011 · and James Clear, Atomic Habits
Proof beats promises.
A resolution is easy to doubt. A week of small things done is hard to argue with. Making progress on something that matters is one of the strongest everyday lifts there is.
The progress principle · Amabile & Kramer, 2011
A missed day takes nothing away.
Break a perfect streak and it’s tempting to drop the whole thing. So nothing here goes back to zero. Votes never expire; the proof only piles up.
The “what-the-hell” effect · Polivy & Herman
Then, if you like, watch it grow.
Your votes can build something you can see. A night sky, where each person you’re becoming is a constellation…
…a path, a step for each thing done…
Trees grow beside it in the colours of who you were being that day, and a lantern marks every 25 steps. Look back, and see how far you’ve come.
…or a small city.
Each person you’re becoming gets a district, and every vote adds a floor. Pick the world you like and switch whenever: it’s built from the same votes.
Your to-dos won’t say themselves.
The world stays off until you switch it on, and it’s gentle when you do: no points, no leaderboards, and nothing ever lost.
Questions,
answered.
The straight version, including what it doesn’t do yet.
No. Things is wonderful and you should probably buy it. Acture is for when you want that same calm list, but you would rather talk than tap through menus.
Never. Press N and type, the old fashioned way, or use the shorthand. The assistant is there for when your hands are full or your thoughts are a mess.
Everything it adds shows up straight away, so you can see it, and one press undoes it.
No. You can speak to it, but it always answers in writing, right where you are.
Your lists live in Acture’s own database. What you say or attach is sent to an AI model to be read, and that is all it is used for.
Not yet. Reminders fire while Acture is open; there are no push notifications.
Yes, and it is the same Acture. Install it from Chrome, on a computer or an Android phone: its own icon and window, straight to your lists. No store, and it keeps itself up to date.
Only if you want it to be. Your World is off until you switch it on in Settings. Then you name who you’re becoming, every to-do you finish counts as a vote for them, and you choose how to see it: a night sky, a path or a small city. No points to lose, nobody to beat, and a missed day takes nothing away.
Right now it is a private instance: you sign in with a Google account that has been let in. It is free while it is being built.
Ready when you are.
Free while it’s being built. Approved accounts sign in with Google.
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