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Goals Growth follows a simple loop:
Action → Experience → Pain → Reflection → Insight → Action again. We reflect more deeply after we’ve taken action, which is why we’ve designed different ways for you to write down and journal about your goals.
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain

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Life Goal

Your life goal is your North Star. It gives meaning to your days and direction to your choices. When you know where you’re going, every step becomes purposeful. How to Begin
  • Choose your date: When do you see this vision coming to life?
  • Name your mission: What will you devote your life to?
  • Picture the outcome: What specific change will you bring into reality?
  • Your gift to the world: What tangible offering will you give to the world?
  • Map your path: What detailed plans and know-how will get you there?
In Life Note, you can find examples of Life Goals to get inspired. You don’t have to have one right now, but you can start with a draft and continue to find out about your why. Once you’ve written down your life goal, read it aloud twice a day and check in on Life Note; it’ll increase your focus and your likelihood of achieving it.
In 1969, Bruce was rejected by Hollywood and told that he could never be a lead actor. Devastated, he hit one of the lowest points in his life.Then he stumbled upon a book that changed everything — Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.The lesson was simple yet profound:“Write down your life’s purpose, and read it aloud twice a day.”So Bruce sat down and wrote:
“I, Bruce Lee, will become the highest-paid Oriental superstar in the United States. In return, I will give the most exciting performances. Starting 1970, I will achieve world fame, and by 1980 I will have $10 million. I will live the way I please, in inner harmony and happiness.”
That single page reprogrammed his mind every day. It gave him direction, focus, and conviction — until the world caught up with his vision.That’s the power of having a Life Goal — to live with a purpose designed by you, not the world.

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Yearly Goal

Every year, you can also write down the goals you have and choose a theme you’d love to focus on. This helps you break down your larger goal into more actionable, tangible steps throughout the year.

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Practices and Quests

Once you’ve done the big-picture thinking, you create the actual work in Life Note. There are two kinds, and the difference is time.

Quest

Something you will accomplish. Specific and time-bound.“Read 12 books” — not “read more”.

Practice

Something you will do daily. Simple, ongoing, no end date.“Meditate 10 min” — not “be more mindful”.
A Quest has a finish line and milestones along the way. A Practice has a streak — you show up, and the days accumulate.

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Timeless Practices

You don’t have to invent one from scratch. Life Note carries a curated library of practices and quests drawn from wisdom traditions — Vipassana with S. N. Goenka among them — each paired with the mentor who taught it, with a message from them, how to begin, and why it works.
Wisdom traditions practiced for centuries. Adopted by millions. Ready for you.

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Creating a goal

Tap the + button in your Goals tab to create a new one. A goal can be anything that matters to you:
  • Be more present with my kids
  • Write my first novel
  • Build a meditation practice
  • Worry less about things I can’t control
  • Learn to paint
Some goals are measurable. Some aren’t. Both are valid. Life Note doesn’t require metrics — it requires meaning. You can have up to 10 active goals at once. Not because more would break the app, but because focus matters. If everything is a priority, nothing is.
Not sure where to start? Life Note carries a library of curated practices — meditation, health habits and others — each paired with the mentor who taught it.

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Living with a goal

A goal in Life Note is not a checkbox. Open one and it grows as you do.

Show up

Tap I showed up today to log the day. Life Note tracks your show-ups, current streak and best streak.

Milestones

Break a large goal into steps and tick them off as they land.

Journal your journey

Link an entry to the goal. Your mentors then respond knowing what you are working toward.

Action Inspiration

A practice recommended by one of your mentors, with why it helps, how to begin, and the science behind it.
Every goal carries a status — On Track, At Risk or Achieved — so you can see where you stand without opening each one.

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When your mentor checks in

Go quiet on a goal and the mentor paired with it leaves you a note — an unread mentor note appears on the goal, and you can open the chat to read it or dismiss it. You can also talk to a goal directly. That conversation knows what you set out to do, and everything you have written toward it since.
Mentor nudges are optional. Turn them off under notification settings if you would rather not be checked on.

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Letting a goal go

Not every goal deserves to be finished. Some were right for a version of you that has moved on. Life Note gives you Let go rather than delete. The goal is archived as gracefully released — it stays in your history instead of vanishing.
This isn’t failure — pruning in service of what matters most is wisdom.
If you change your mind, Recommit brings it back to your active goals. Nothing is lost either way.

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The journey behind you

Completed goals don’t disappear. They gather into a timeline you can scroll back through, with the entries you wrote along the way. Tap any reflection to reopen the journey it belonged to.
Every finished goal is proof you can do hard things.