You’re reading about an early prototype of HQ — the operating system for your daily life. HQ is being built in public and various aspects of the application and/or this blog post could change. This article originally appeared on Medium.
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We all aspire to greatness. HQ helps you achieve it.
If you study the habits of peak performers — the people we look up to and marvel at how much they achieve — one common theme emerges: they all keep track of what they do.
Every. Single. One. Of. Them.
Why? …so they can do it better the next time!
Here’s the problem
Keeping track of what you do is all well and great, but for many years I asked myself the question: how exactly do I keep track of all this information, and where do I store it?
For a long time, the answer to that question involved suggestions like keeping a journal or building a spreadsheet to log various activities, or various manifestations of these ideas. But with the complexity and connectedness of our 21st century world, neither of these approaches really work — I’ve tried both and a number of others too.
Today, a good portion of our lives take place online, so while a physical journal may be good for writing, it can’t capture pictures, video and other media, nor can we use it to do any data analysis, nor does it have any automation, or search capability, etc. It’s just writing.
As a digital tool, Excel (and Airtable, Notion, et al) has some of the right features, but it’s just a shell. We as the user are charged with building a model to house the data we want to track. Assuming we know how to do this at all, doing it is both time-consuming and unlikely to yield a system we can really use in the long run. And again, WE have to build it.
Here’s the vision
What if there was a system that was already set up for all of us to keep track of our lives just like the people we aspire to be? What if this system didn’t require that we have won super bowls or be a billionaire or be a celebrity or have a “person for that?” What if there was an app that let us manage our daily lives with precision, and keep track of every activity and detail we care about, from what food we eat, to the workouts we do, to the people we communicate with, and the stuff we have to do, to the things we own, even down to the papers on our desk?
Better still, what if we could get all these capabilities without having to use a multitude of apps and having our data spread out all over the place? Apple may have told us “there’s an app for that” but what we didn’t quite understand is they meant “there’s a separate app for that.”
What if there was just one?
Introducing HQ
HQ is the world’s first Smart Journal. It functions as the operating system for your daily life.
Every aspect of your day, organized and accessible
A list of your contacts and the communications you’ve had with them
A place to log all of your workouts
Using HQ, consumers can record and manage all the important aspects of their lives from within a single space, all with the aim of helping them get better at whichever parts of life are important to them.
- Manage your contacts and the communications you’ve had with them.. even where you met them
- Log your workouts, down to the last rep
- Plan your meals and maintain a food journal, even including meals from restaurants
- Put together habit lists and track your daily performance as you complete them
- Check off tasks and get projects to the finish line
And a lot more … see more about how HQ Works.
One App. All of you.
We all have dreams. We all have a vision of a person we want to be. The people we admire for all that they accomplish have spent years building systems that help them execute at a high level.
Now you have one too.