Four ideas, and one loop.
LifeHQ is built on the observation that focused people rarely fail at their focus. They fail at everything they stopped noticing while they were focused.
One Focus
You choose a single current focus: what it is, why it matters, the outcome you want, how you will know it worked, and when you will review whether it still deserves the space. Other ideas go into an idea queue rather than quietly becoming a second job. If you want to activate something new, LifeHQ shows you the trade first.
Protected Floors
A floor is a minimum you are not willing to go below — seven hours of sleep, three workouts a week, four hours that belong to your family, no more than two late nights. Floors are not goals. They are the line under which a focused season stops being worth it. When a floor slips, work in your busiest area is pushed down the list until it recovers.
Adaptive planning
Each day gets a plan built from your focus, your floors, your commitments and the time you actually have. When the day breaks — and it will — you tell LifeHQ what happened and the rest of the day is rebuilt around it. Work you postpone goes back to the queue. It is not marked as failed, and it is not silently stacked onto tomorrow.
Blind-spot review
Once a week, LifeHQ shows one to three things you might not have noticed: an area getting far more attention than you intended, a goal with nothing behind it, a floor that keeps slipping. Every one is tied to something you told LifeHQ or did inside it, and every one explains why it appeared. You can dismiss any of them permanently.
The loop
- Plan — a day built around your focus and your floors.
- Focus — a session with a stated outcome and a stopping time.
- Report reality — what actually happened, by voice or text.
- Detect imbalance — where attention is going versus where you wanted it.
- Replan — the rest of the day, rebuilt honestly.
- Shut down — capture where you got to, so restarting is easy.
- Review — weekly, monthly and quarterly, in direct language.
What decides
The scheduling itself is ordinary, readable rules — not a language model. Access control, floors, priority limits and scheduling constraints are all decided by code that produces the same answer every time. Where AI is used at all, it is for transcribing what you said and proposing how to file it, and you confirm the result before anything changes.
What it deliberately is not
- Not a task manager that treats every item as equal.
- Not a habit tracker with streaks to protect.
- Not a health, financial, legal or employment tool.
- Not a team or workplace product.
- Not a general-purpose assistant, and never listening in the background.