Find your
north Norte,
this year.
Norte is a yearly goal-tracking app that combines habit heatmaps, savings curves, milestone paths, decision matrices, and a year-end letter to your future self — built around a 2-minute daily ritual, with no streaks, badges, or gamification.
A quiet companion for the year you've been meaning to live. One ring. One ritual. One letter to your future self — written every day, two minutes at a time.
Goals come in
different shapes.
The habit. Every day, on a heatmap.
Daily rituals you keep — meditation, running, reading. Each square is a day. The strip grows. You stop wondering if you're advancing, you can see it.
The number. A curve, not a bar.
Save $30k. Pay off the card. The curve shows what you've done, the dotted line shows what's needed. Honest about the gap.
The milestone. A path with steps.
Move apartments. Run a half-marathon. Get the certification. Each step is small and visible. The next one is always lit.
The decision. Weighted, not vibes.
Quit the job? Move countries? End the relationship? Score your criteria, see for-and-against, watch the lean tilt. Don't let drift decide.
Two minutes a day.— What we tell people who ask
That's the whole
product.
Open the app. Tap what you kept. Tap if you slipped. Write two lines about what moved. Close the app. That's it. The visualizations build themselves while you sleep.
Write what's true
on December 31.
Today.
Imagine the version of you reading this in nine months. What did they do? What did they finally do? What did they let go of?
We save it. We bring it back to you in December. It's the most useful page in the app.
This year I finally moved to a place I love. I wrote three short stories — bad ones, but real ones. I ran my first half-marathon and didn't stop, even when I wanted to.
I forgave the thing I never said out loud. I drank water before coffee for 200 days straight. I said no, on purpose, to two big things — and meant it.
A year is a long time.
A day is not.
We don't believe in streaks that punish, badges that infantilize, or notifications that scream. We believe in the quiet pleasure of noticing. Of one heatmap, growing. Of one ring, slowly closing.
Questions, answered.
What is Norte?
Norte is a yearly goal-tracking app that combines habit heatmaps, savings curves, milestone paths, decision matrices, and a year-end letter to your future self. It is designed for one year of use at a time, with a two-minute daily ritual instead of streaks, badges, or notifications.
How is Norte different from Notion, Streaks, or other goal apps?
Notion is a flexible workspace where you build your own goal system. Streaks-style apps treat every goal as a binary daily checkbox. Norte treats each goal type — habit, number, milestone, decision — with its own visualization and logic. A savings goal becomes a curve. A move becomes a step path. A life decision becomes a weighted matrix. Norte does not use streaks or gamification.
Why doesn't Norte use streaks?
Streaks punish missed days and create a fragile motivation system. When a streak breaks, users often quit the app entirely. Norte uses cumulative views — heatmaps and curves — that reward consistency without punishing one-off slips. The reward is the visible shape of your year, not a number that resets.
What are the four shapes of goals in Norte?
Habits (daily rituals, visualized as a growing heatmap), Numbers (quantitative goals like savings, visualized as a curve against a target line), Milestones (sequential steps for projects like moving or training, visualized as a path), and Decisions (weighted scoring matrices for major life choices like quitting a job or moving cities).
What is the 2-minute daily ritual?
Each day you open Norte, tap which habits you kept, tap any you slipped on, and write two short lines about what moved that day. The visualizations update automatically. The total time is roughly two minutes. There are no streak notifications or engagement nudges.
What is the letter to your future self?
At the start of the year, you write a letter to the version of yourself who will read it on December 31 — describing what you hope to have done, decided, or let go of. Norte saves it and returns it to you at year end, alongside the visualization of how the year actually went.
When does Norte launch?
Norte opens early access in spring 2026. The product is built around the 2026 calendar year. You can reserve a spot by submitting your email on thenorte.app.
How much does Norte cost?
Pricing for Norte will be announced when early access opens in spring 2026.
Is Norte available in Portuguese and Spanish?
Yes. Norte launches with English, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish from day one.
Who is Norte for?
Norte is for people who want to take a single year seriously — set a small number of meaningful goals across different life areas, see honest progress, and end the year with a record of what they actually did. It is not built for productivity power users, gamification fans, or people who want a flexible note-taking system.
Find your
north Norte.
Early access opens this spring. We'll send you one email when it does. No more, no fewer.