One Percent.

The journal that draws your year

Your year is 365 dots.
Tonight you light one.

Thirty seconds before bed: how the day felt, one line worth keeping. One Percent turns it into a dot on your year — green for the good ones, red for the rough ones — until you're looking at a map of your life you can actually reread.

30 seconds a night · no account needed · iPhone, widgets, Apple Watch

22:04 · lights almost out

You already know how today felt. Say it in thirty seconds.

Five symbols — terrible to great. Tap the one that's true. Then the highlight: the one moment you'd tell a friend about. A lowlight if there was one. That's a complete check-in; the dot is lit.

On the nights the page stares back at you, a prompt card breaks the silence — what actually happened today, without judging it?— and if there's more underneath, the private note takes as many lines as you need. No word counts. No pressure.

  • Mood, highlight, lowlight — done before your tea cools.
  • Rotating reflection prompts for the blank-page nights.
  • A private journal note when the day deserves more than a line.

The math you're living

0.27%

That's what one day weighs: 1/365th of your year. Small enough to throw away without noticing. Big enough that 192 of them, seen together, tell you exactly what kind of year you're building.

365

dots on one screen

You see the whole year at once — the lived days in color, the rest waiting. No scrolling back through months to remember you exist.

×37.8

the compound curve

Get 1% better every day and the arithmetic says you end the year almost 38 times better. Life is messier than arithmetic — but the direction is real, and the grid makes it visible.

1

honest line a day

Not a habit checklist with fourteen toggles. One check-in, one moment worth keeping. The smallest journaling habit that still works.

December 31 · someone asks how your year was

This time, you'll have the receipts.

Every check-in lands in Daily Notes — your year's private archive. Type “interview” and find the day you almost cancelled. Filter to just the great days when you need proof they happen. It searches on your phone, not on a server.

And when you want your words somewhere else, export them — one tap, yours to keep. They never stop being yours.

  • Search every note, highlight, and journal entry — locally.
  • Filter by week, mood, or private notes; reopen and edit any day.
  • Export your whole journal whenever you want. No lock-in.

Sunday evening · the week in review

Your week has a shape. See it.

Streaks, completion, average mood, the trend line of your energy — One Percent reads your check-ins back to you as numbers you can argue with. You'll notice the Tuesday dip before it notices you.

Want more than numbers? Weekly AI insights read between your lines — patterns, wins, what kept dragging — written about your week, not a generic one.

  • Current and best streaks, tracked to the day.
  • Weekly and monthly reports, plus month-vs-month comparison.
  • AI-powered weekly insights when you want a second reader.

Your year, everywhere you look

The grid follows you around. That's the point.

The dots work because you keep seeing them. Put your year on every surface you already look at — each glance is a quiet question: did you light today's dot yet?

Home & lock screen widgets

Your grid sits next to the clock. You check the time forty times a day — now you check your year too.

Apple Watch

Check in from your wrist and carry the year as a complication. The glance-sized version of the whole idea.

Wallpaper generator

Render your dot grid as a wallpaper in your own colors. Your lock screen becomes your year in progress.

Share your grid

Export the grid as an image when a milestone deserves witnesses. 100 dots is worth showing someone.

Written for one reader: you

No account. No feed. Nobody reading over your shoulder.

Open the app and start writing — your journal lives on your phone, no sign-up between you and tonight's dot. If you turn on cloud sync, your words are encrypted on your device before they leave it. What you write at 22:04 is between you and December.

Guides

The thinking behind the dots.

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Tonight's dot is waiting.

You can't relight the ones behind you. The next one is tonight's, and it takes thirty seconds.

iPhone · widgets · Apple Watch · no account needed