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Napoleon

My anti-guru productivity app. All the good ideas from every method that actually works, none of the gurus. I use it every day, and I'm probably the only person alive who does.

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The anti-guru productivity app

Think and get on with it.

All the good ideas. None of the gurus.

One calm place for your goals, tasks, habits and reviews. It stays out of the way. No hustle, no gurus, no telling you to unlock your potential.

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I’ve designed and half-built around 300 productivity apps over the years. Give or take. It’s the thing every coding tutorial quietly teaches you to build, so I built it, over and over, and never once used one of them past the first afternoon.

Napoleon is the one I actually use. Every day. I’m probably the only person alive who does, but it’s early.

It started as my own productivity system before it was an app. Bits of Bullet Journal and the Clear Journal mostly, and one simple want: a single place, online, to keep everything, instead of the usual sprawl across six apps and a notebook I’ve since lost. Goals at the root, tasks and habits hanging off them, and a review to check I’m still pointed the right way. That’s about it.

The trick, if there is one, is that it doesn’t invent a system and sell it back to you. It takes the productivity methods that already hold up (Ivy Lee’s six, Personal Kanban, Bullet Journal, Eisenhower, GTD, even Atomic Habits) and puts them in one place, then shows you the same tasks through whichever lens you fancy. And it tells you, straight, which one actually gets you more done. All the good ideas, none of the gurus.

About that name

Napoleon Hill wrote Think and Grow Rich in 1937 and more or less invented the modern self-help guru. He was also, by most accounts, a con man. Wikipedia’s opening line literally calls him one. We kept the four ideas of his that hold up and binned the rest, him included. The tagline is “Think and get on with it.” (Not the French emperor. People do ask.)

The actual reason it exists

There’s a second reason, and it’s the honest one. I wanted to prove that with a decent idea and a design eye, you can use Claude to build a legitimate, fully-fledged app. Not a toy, not a weekend demo. A real one. Napoleon is the argument. I designed the whole thing (the “honest ledger” look, paper and ink and monospaced numbers that line up like an accountant’s book, which I somehow cracked first time) and built it this way, top to bottom.

It’s a proper side project off the back of Genius Division, the day job that quietly pays for all the daft stuff on here. It’s still very much a work in progress. I keep using it, keep finding the holes, keep filling them, slowly working towards a v1 I’d actually put my name to.

You can sign up right now, or have a poke about in the demo, all free. It’s the best productivity app I’ve ever used. But I would say that, because I built it.

The whole pitch. Set what matters, do the work, no unlocking of potential required.
The whole pitch. Set what matters, do the work, no unlocking of potential required.
One set of tasks, seen through whichever method you fancy. It even tells you which one gets you more done.
One set of tasks, seen through whichever method you fancy. It even tells you which one gets you more done.
Named after Napoleon Hill, who invented the self-help guru and was also, by most accounts, a con man. We kept the useful bit.
Named after Napoleon Hill, who invented the self-help guru and was also, by most accounts, a con man. We kept the useful bit.