It's easy to forget what matters.
Keeping it is the whole point.
Keep The Process keeps your life aligned with what actually matters — for years, not weeks. Define where you want to land, see whether your days point there, and adjust before you drift.
Your backbone
This quarter
Where your effort actually went
“My days are full. I couldn't tell you what they're adding up to.”
Productivity tools count what you get done.
Keep The Process is a method — the Backbone Alignment Method — for checking that what you do still points where you said your life should go.
What day zero looks like
Not a life plan — a starting point. Three taps and a sentence, and it always ends inside one real log.
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Your first move
Plant a seed backbone: pick one life domain, tap one value that holds there, and write one sentence you want true a year from now.
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Where the effort starts
Choose the part of your life you'll log first — money, body, food, days — and make one real entry there.
- 3
Your first receipt
Your backbone, drawn: [domain], held by [value], aiming at what you named. And its first proof is already on the record.
Sunday brings the first verdict: did the week point at this, or drift past it? Free runs the whole loop — backbone, daily mirror, weekly bilan.
You haven't lost your way. You've just been busy living.
Nobody wakes up planning to drift. But the day fills itself — obligations you didn't choose, energy that comes and goes, the unplanned thing that eats the afternoon. Weeks pass. Then months. And the things you swore mattered most quietly slide down the list — not because you stopped caring, but because nothing was holding them in front of you.
When did you last check whether your days are building the life you want — or just getting through it?
Most apps track what you did. This one tracks whether it mattered.
A tracker tells you that you ran 12 km and spent $340. It can't tell you whether that's the life you meant to build. Keep The Process starts from the other end — from what you've decided matters — and shows you, week after week, whether your effort is actually going there.
Deviating from your path isn't the problem. Not coming back is. The goal was never a perfect streak — it's a system that always points you home. That's the process, and keeping it is what compounds over years.
Define → Live → Reflect → Adjust. Then again.
Three moves, on repeat. Not a checklist you finish — a loop you keep.
Backbone — define what matters
Name your values and your vision: where you want to land across the parts of life that count — health, family, relationships, money, growth. Some of it holds for life. Some will change, and that's expected. You revisit it; you don't abandon it.
Effort — just live, and log it
About 30 seconds a day. Counters, habits, money, training, food — whatever you're working on. No calendar to wrestle, no calories to count. Even a blank week tells you something.
Vision — see the whole picture, and adjust
Everything in one view: where your time, energy, and money actually went, against the life you said you wanted. The gap is the gift. You spot the drift, learn what's pulling you, and correct — weekly, quarterly, yearly.
One place for every part of your life
Habits, money, training, food, goals — each one feeding the same backbone.
You've seen the whole loop. The only step left is the first one.
Start your backbone — freeWhat changes when you keep the process
Your priorities stop living in your head
And stop getting overwritten by whatever shouts loudest today.
Motivation that survives the messy weeks
Because you're running a process, not chasing one finish line.
One view of your whole life
Instead of seven apps that each know one slice of you.
A standing answer to "am I on track?"
In seconds, any day you ask.
This isn't a productivity hack. It's a method.
Keep The Process grew out of a method I spent years writing down — the Backbone Alignment Method — after my own post-its, notebooks, and spreadsheets fell apart the first time life got in the way: a holiday, a winter, a flu. The idea underneath: you don't need to control everything. You need something that remembers what you said mattered, and shows you the picture when you've lost the thread. I built the app I wished I'd had — then made it cover the rest of life.
— Sami, creator of Keep The Process
The questions you're already asking
Isn't manual tracking tedious?
Thirty seconds a day. And the noticing is the point — the moment you log something is the moment you're conscious of the choice. That's also why nothing connects to your bank: awareness you outsource isn't awareness.
Another life tracker?
Trackers answer "what did I do?" Keep The Process answers "is what I'm doing taking me where I want to go?" Different question, different tool.
What if I fall off for a few weeks?
You will — everyone does. Drifting isn't failure; staying gone is. It's built on the assumption that you'll wander off — and makes coming back easy.
What if what I want changes?
It will, and the method expects it. You revisit your values once or twice a year. The plan moves with you — that's the difference between a backbone and a cage.
Is my data mine?
Yes. No bank connections, no aggregation, nothing sold. You own your picture.
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Stop hoping you're on track. Start knowing.
Define what matters, watch your effort line up with it, and adjust before the years go by. Keep The Process holds the rest in view, so you don't have to carry it all in your head.