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Meet macro forceswith macro focus

We have never had more power to shape our lives, and perhaps never faced more forces shaping how we live. The stronger those forces become, the more deliberately we need to choose how we live.

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In a distracted world, choosing where your attention goes is power.

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Choose an example. See an aim and the steps that bring it into everyday life.

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Be present with the people I care about every day

Launch invitation · through December 31

Three months to make it your own.

Explore Core or Plus free for three months. Cancel the paid plan and keep Basics free: your notes, Focus, Wisdom and mindfulness stay.

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One who understands others has knowledge, one who understands himself has wisdom.
Lao Tzu

Wisdom from ancient and modern traditions, chosen for its lasting value in how we live today.

How it works

Work out what you want from life and what it will take.

What you say you want, what you actually do, and what you are willing to give up do not always agree.

Macro Focus helps you understand those conflicts and turn that understanding into changes you can make.

  1. Making room for one thing means less room for another

    Time, attention, energy, comfort, opportunity: every real choice draws from somewhere else.

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    Many of those trades are unconscious, inherited, habitual, or simply expedient. The trade is already happening. The useful question is whether it is one you would choose if you could see it clearly.

  2. You cannot know the right choice entirely in advance

    Reflection can help, but clarity is incomplete until an idea meets ordinary life.

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    We learn by acting, noticing what actually happens, and using it to choose what comes next. A choice can be held seriously without being held rigidly.

  3. Knowing what matters helps clarify what is worth the effort

    An aim does not remove uncertainty, friction, or sacrifice. It gives you a basis for deciding which costs are worth accepting.

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    As consequences become clear, you can revise that judgment. The point is not constant striving or treating hardship as inherently good. It is clearer judgment about what effort, rest, pleasure, and responsibility are serving.

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Install Macro Focus on your phone or computer, or use the full app in your browser if you prefer.

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Inside Macro Focus

Four ways to keep the thread

Start with the mode that fits the moment. The tools stay connected, but none of them asks you to maintain the whole system at once.

  1. 01 Focus
  2. 02 Notes
  3. 03 Wisdom
  4. 04 Patterns
FocusDirection, current steps, and a quiet trace

01 / Focus

Hold a chosen aim without turning life into a dashboard

An aim can remain present while how you pursue the aim changes with experience.

In practice

  • Name the larger aim and the part that matters to you now
  • Keep a small set of current steps close, and open deeper structure only when useful
  • Mark movement with a quiet trace rather than a performance score

The boundary

  • The week is one practical horizon, not the meaning of the aim
  • Steps can change when conditions or understanding change
  • Returning after time away creates no overdue state or catch-up debt
NotesExperience kept specific and editable

02 / Notes

Let experience remain specific before explaining what happened

Notes preserve what happened, what stood out, and what may deserve another look.

In practice

  • Capture in writing or voice, with a visible save state and direct editing
  • Use journal and schedule views when they fit the material
  • Keep the full account, a shorter reflection, or only what matters to retain

The boundary

  • The record remains yours rather than becoming a system-written narrative
  • Controls appear progressively instead of crowding the act of capture
  • Nothing requires a daily ritual, prompt, or public performance
WisdomSources, context, and a finite library

03 / Wisdom

Bring enduring thought to a question that is alive now

Ancient and modern perspectives remain connected to their sources, context, and limits.

In practice

  • Search or browse a bounded collection of source-backed cards
  • See the source and interpretation before deciding what belongs in your library
  • Read quietly or request restrained narration when audio is useful

The boundary

  • A source is not flattened into a motivational slogan
  • The question leads. An engagement algorithm does not.
  • The library has edges. Reaching the end is a normal state
PatternsRecurring moments, possible explanations

04 / Patterns

Notice what repeats. Explore what may be behind it.

Repeated moments may reveal something useful. They may also admit more than one explanation.

In practice

  • Keep observations distinct from possible connections and explanations
  • Explore how biological, emotional, learned, social, environmental, and practical conditions can stack
  • Compare alternatives, counterexamples, and whether a reading fits, partly fits, or does not fit

The boundary

  • A pattern remains a hypothesis, not a diagnosis, identity, or causal finding
  • Several influences can coexist without a single master-cause story
  • The person retains the final judgment about what fits

For people who recognize this

Reflection is not the problem. Continuity is the hard part.

Macro Focus is for people who think seriously about their lives but do not want another system to perform for. It helps you carry what you understand into everyday choices, even when life interrupts.

See how Macro Focus works

You understand more than you consistently live

The insight is real. But ordinary demands keep displacing that insight before understanding can shape what happens.

Your useful context is scattered

Notes, conversations, intentions, and sources exist in different places. Returning means rebuilding the picture yet again.

Rigid systems work until life interrupts

A missed week becomes a broken streak, an overdue plan, or a reason to abandon the system precisely when continuity matters most.

A recurring pattern needs more than “try harder”

A habit, reaction, or return keeps repeating. The pattern’s history, conditions, rewards, relationships, and meaning may all matter at once.

Plans

The same foundation. Go further with what you notice.

Start with 3 months of Core or Plus free. Core and Plus add AI-assisted reflection and Patterns: explore what repeats, compare possible explanations and consider your next step. Cancel it and keep Basics free: your written Notes, Focus, Wisdom, your psychological profile and mindfulness stay.

Core

For thinking through what happened and deciding what to do next.

14-day trial3 months freeLaunch offer · until December 31

Then

$8USD / month

Billed monthly

  • AI-assisted reflection on your notes and possible next steps
  • Up to 2 active Focus aims
  • Patterns: explore what repeats and compare possible explanations
  • Intentional voice capacity

Card required · Cancel in Settings

Plus

All the tools in Core, with more active aims and four times the voice capacity.

14-day trial3 months freeLaunch offer · until December 31

Then

$16USD / month

Billed monthly

  • Everything in Core
  • Up to 4 active Focus aims
  • The same AI assistance and Patterns as Core
  • Expanded voice capacity

Card required · Cancel in Settings

Your foundation stays free.

Cancel your paid plan in Settings and keep Basics automatically when the trial or paid period ends. Your notes and Focus stay. No recurring charge for Basics.

Compare Basics, Core and Plus
What stays free, and what the paid plans add
What you getBasics $0 after paid access endsCorePlus
Written Notes and JournalIncludedIncludedIncluded
Active Focus aims124
WisdomFull library; keep up to 100No saved-selection capNo saved-selection cap
Mindfulness and guided meditationIncludedIncludedIncluded
Psychological assessments and resultsBig Five, values, interests, grit and mindfulness resultsAssessments and saved resultsAssessments and saved results
AI-assisted reflectionNot includedExplore your notes and possible next stepsSame tools as Core
PatternsNot includedExplore recurring experiences, possible connections and alternative explanationsSame tools as Core
Voice input and generated narrationNot includedStandard capacity4x Core's included capacity

Practical questions

A few things worth knowing

What is Macro Focus, and what isn’t?

Macro Focus is a private place to keep chosen aims, lived experience, possible patterns, and source-backed perspective connected. Macro Focus is not a productivity score, a life program, or a system that decides what matters to you.

How is Macro Focus different from using notes, ChatGPT, or a habit app?

Notes preserve fragments. A general AI can answer a prompt. A habit app tracks repetition. Macro Focus keeps the direction, the lived context around that direction, relevant sources, and tentative patterns in one continuing thread, without streaks, an endless feed, or a demand to use Macro Focus every day.

The product comparison guide looks at the nearby choices by job, including where another product is the more complete option.

What happens if I don’t use Macro Focus for several weeks?

Nothing breaks and no streak is lost. A direction can remain meaningful while life temporarily demands attention elsewhere. When you return, Macro Focus is designed to help you recover the thread without manufacturing failure or urgency.

Is this therapy or treatment?

No. Macro Focus does not diagnose, provide psychotherapy, or offer medical or addiction treatment. Macro Focus can support reflection, learning, and chosen action, but cannot replace qualified care when a situation requires such care.

What is encrypted, and what is sent when I request a response?

Covered personal text is encrypted on your device before persistent storage. When you deliberately request a companion response, the text needed for that request is sent in readable form to the configured AI provider. The distinction is explained in the privacy policy.

How does the three-month offer work?

A card is required. Nothing is charged during the 93-day launch trial. Your selected plan renews afterward unless you cancel in Settings. Cancel the paid plan and keep Basics free when paid access ends: your written Notes, Focus, Wisdom and mindfulness stay.

Can I cancel directly in Macro Focus?

Yes. Billing controls are available from Settings, including a direct path to cancel the subscription. The product does not hide cancellation behind support messages or retention screens.

What changes between Core and Plus?

Both plans include the same underlying product and privacy model. Core is for a small number of active aims and intentional voice use. Plus adds room for more simultaneous aims, supporting areas, and requested audio. See the full comparison on the pricing page.