Less Today

A lighter day, two lines at a time.

A small book and a one-screen app for anyone with too much on. Every morning you write the one thing you will not do today, then the one thing you will. It never scores you. Miss a day and nothing happens.

Day 5Week 1
“Ask yourself at every moment: is this necessary?”Marcus Aurelius
Today I will not
check email before ten
✓ didn’t
Today I will
send the invoice
✓ did

How it works

Every morning, two minutes

Read the quote. Write what you will not do. Then what you will. Something you could finish today: a task, never a goal.

Every Sunday, five minutes

Sort everything else into Later, Hand off and Drop. Three lines each. If it does not fit, it was never going to happen.

Every month, ten minutes

Write yourself a short statement in plain sentences: where the time went, and one thing to stop. No percentages. Nothing goes red.

Why it works

Not before Do

Overwhelmed people cannot pick a priority until something has been cleared. So the page makes you subtract before it lets you commit.

The caps are the product

One line for Not, one for Do, three each for the rest. You cannot write a to-do list here. You can only make decisions.

It never scores you

No streaks, no rings, nothing to keep up. The only thing that gets measured is what you chose to leave out.

Get it

The book

£19.99 · paperback · A5 · 116 pages

Ninety daily pages, thirteen weekly sorts, three monthly statements. A quotation a day, chosen for clarity rather than motivation. Undated, so it starts whenever you do.

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The app

Free · works on any phone · nothing to install

The two lines and the weekly sort, on one screen. Saves on your phone. No account, no notifications, no streak.

£3.99 a month or £36 a year adds the monthly statement, sync across devices, history, and one book a month written up on a single page.

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