Any Tracker
A behavior research engine for fragile agency. Not a habit tracker — an instrument for observing what's actually happening, and, only if you want, steering the next action. No goals, no shame, no streaks.
Just track it.
Tracking is the intervention
The act of recording — in your own words, faster than forgetting — changes behavior without the app preaching at you. That's the whole contract. Everything below is optional depth you unlock by using it, not by surviving an onboarding lecture.
In scope
- Record what happened, in your words.
- Make logging faster than forgetting.
- Return patterns you can dispute.
Out of scope
- Goals, streaks, shame, "you failed".
- Lectures, abstinence enforcement.
- Deciding what you should want.
How it works
track → mirror the sign → learn the topology → a weak nudge at the right moment → the crutch removes itself
1 — Observe
A frictionless log — text or a tap, your own language — and history you can actually see. Success is simple: you still log on a bad day.
2 — Mirror the sign
Distributions, sequences, time-of-day structure, built from your own log. It hands back a sign — better, about the same, or worse than a fair, load-adjusted expectation of yourself. Not "worse than yesterday": the day after real effort you dip, and that's recovery, not failure. You read it as a stable, glanceable map, never a score — and it's hard to game, because faking it means fooling your own model of yourself.
3 — Steer, then step back
Only if you pick a direction. The app becomes a weak, well-timed nudge — with real leverage only near a decision point, never enough to override you. Pre-track a move and it surfaces a few fading, zero-obligation options; it sets no price and keeps no ledger. As a new pattern holds on its own, the app withdraws. The crutch is built to be removable.
The honest sign
The point of tracking isn't the record — it's reading your own state instantly. So the app hands back a sign, not a verdict: are you trending better, about the same, or worse than a fair expectation of yourself today.
"Better than yesterday" is a trap. The day after real effort you naturally dip, and a literal-yesterday bar marks that recovery as a failure. So the bar breathes: it's set by a quiet model of your own slow level and current load — a little over-effort and a little rest, every day. Honest recovery reads as "about the same", never as "you failed".
And you don't read a number — you read a stable map. You learn what your good map looks like and feel the deviation at a glance, before words. It's hard to game, because faking it means fooling your own model of yourself.
Built to remove itself
Most apps want you forever. This one is a transition operator: if you pick a direction, it nudges you from one stable pattern toward another — gently enough that you're never stranded between habits, with real leverage only near a decision point.
And as the new pattern holds on its own, the app withdraws. Success isn't engagement — it's needing it less, one pattern at a time. Crutch, then tool, then gone. The space is large enough that there's always a next thing worth tracking, but no single habit is meant to keep you hooked.
Who it's for
People who already use or study substances, habits, and states — caffeine to cannabis, supplements to psychedelics, meditation to doomscrolling — and want honest data without an app that moralizes. And researchers in harm reduction and behavioral design who care about minimal contracts and user-sovereign nudging.
Not for anyone who needs a wellness brand, a sobriety badge, or a streak to defend.
Your log is yours
Local-first, minimal retention. If anything leaves your device, you're told what and for how long. No hidden central graph of your habits. Trust is the architecture, not a setting buried three screens deep.
The theory
The mechanisms here — attractors over willpower, timing over schedules, a weak nudge over force — are the ones taken apart in the Corpus, pointed at your own nervous system. Any Tracker is that body of theory, applied.
It's built as an N=1 research instrument, not a wellness brand. What it learns it owes back as methodological notes — mechanism, a sample of one, honest failure modes — not outcome bragging.
Join the private beta
v2 is in design. If you track yourself honestly, or you study how people do, get in early — small, slow, and chosen on fit.