The Life List
What you want to do, and what you did.
A private list with a good catalogue behind it. Keep the things you mean to get round to, move them to Done when they happen, and add the ones you did years ago. No feed, no streaks, no one watching.
The list
The things you mean to get round to, with a few set for this year if you like. It lives on your phone, not on our server.
Done
When something happens it moves here, with the date and a line about it. Fill it from the past too: the year is enough.
Ideas
A catalogue of things worth doing, each written up properly: why it is worth it, what it costs, when to go, what people get wrong.
From the catalogue
All ideas-
Travel
Visit Japan
What stays with you is how quiet a crowded place can be.
Best time:Late March to May, or October to November
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Body
Run a marathon
The first twenty miles are the training; the last six are the marathon.
Best time:Spring and autumn race seasons
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Nature
See the northern lights from Tromsø
The first time, it looks like a cloud that someone has lit from behind.
Best time:Late September to late March
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Body
Swim in the sea on New Year's Day
The water on the south coast of England is about nine degrees on the first of January, which is cold enough that your body takes over for the first thirty seconds and does all the breathing on its own.
Best time:1 January
Where to start
13 ways in, from the far north to an ordinary Tuesday. Or search for something specific.
- Travel Places worth the effort of getting to.
- Nature Weather, animals, dark skies and cold water.
- Skills Things you can learn to do with your hands or head.
- Making things Build, bake, sew, write or grow something that did not exist before.
- Body What your body can do if you ask it properly.
- Money Small, specific things to do with money, once.
- Food Meals, markets and one very long cooking project.
- The small everyday Ideas that fit into an ordinary Tuesday.
- People Things that are better done with someone, or for them.
- The strange Odd, specific and slightly hard to explain at dinner.
- Home Where you live, and how.
- Work Things to do with the hours you are paid for.
- Giving Time, money or blood, given on purpose.
Coming to iPhone
Your list stays in your pocket, not on our server.
The list and Done live in an app we are building now. Leave an email and we will write once, when it is ready. That is the whole arrangement.