Give your aim a next step
Keep your direction clear as your plans change.
- Name an aim that matters to you.
- Choose what to work on now.
- Mark progress and revise your steps.
Return without a backlog. Change the steps as life changes.
Simulated lives consume real time
Our feeds offer polished lives, ready-made opinions, even synthetic intimacy. Macro Focus brings the attention back to your own life.
In a distracted world, choosing where your attention goes is power
See Macro Focus in practice
Choose an example. Make a change.
Inside Maya's Macro Focus
Be present with the people I care about every day
Launch invitation · through December 31
Three months to make it your own
Try Core or Plus. If you cancel, Basics stays free.
Get 3 months free“One who understands others has knowledge, one who understands himself has wisdom.”
Macro Focus brings together wisdom from ancient and modern traditions, chosen for its lasting value in how we live today.
How it works
Choose what is worth the trade
Time, attention and energy are finite. Give them a direction you can stand behind.
Every yes makes a trade
Time, attention, energy: making room for one thing leaves less for another.
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Habit and circumstance make choices for us too. The trade is already happening. Would you choose it if you could see it clearly?
Learn where choices meet life
Act, notice what happens, and choose again. Clarity grows through experience.
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Take your choices seriously, then let experience change your mind. Commitment can leave room for correction.
Know what is worth the effort
An aim helps you decide which costs to accept, and which to refuse.
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Effort and rest both belong. Revise your judgment as the costs become clear; hardship is not a virtue in itself.
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“Complex problems are why questions that don’t always have answers. They’re easy to understand unlike complicated problems and impossible to solve.”
Inside Macro Focus
Four ways to keep the thread
Choose the tool that fits the moment.
Keep it in your own words
Write or speak. Keep the specifics.
- Capture a note or journal entry.
- Edit or schedule it.
- Reflect when useful.
Your record. No daily ritual.
Borrow perspective. Keep your judgment
Old and new ideas, with context.
- Find a relevant reading.
- Read or listen.
- Keep what matters.
A finite, source-backed library.
Notice what repeats. Question why
One observation. Several possible explanations.
- Record the specifics.
- Compare counterexamples.
- Decide what fits, partly fits, or does not.
Hypotheses, never diagnoses.
For people who recognize this
Carry the insight into life
Keep what you understand connected to what you do, even when life interrupts.
See how Macro Focus worksYou understand more than you consistently live
Keep an insight close enough to change an ordinary day.
Your useful context is scattered
Bring notes, intentions and perspective back into one place.
Rigid systems work until life interrupts
Return without a broken streak or a backlog to clear.
A recurring pattern needs more than “try harder”
Look at the conditions around a repetition, and consider more than one explanation.
Practical questions
A few things worth knowing
What is Macro Focus, and what isn’t?
Macro Focus is a private place to keep chosen aims, lived experience, possible patterns, and source-backed perspective connected. Macro Focus is not a productivity score, a life program, or a system that decides what matters to you.
How is Macro Focus different from using notes, ChatGPT, or a habit app?
Notes preserve fragments. A general AI can answer a prompt. A habit app tracks repetition. Macro Focus keeps the direction, the lived context around that direction, relevant sources, and tentative patterns in one continuing thread, without streaks, an endless feed, or a demand to use Macro Focus every day.
The product comparison guide looks at the nearby choices by job, including where another product is the more complete option.
What happens if I don’t use Macro Focus for several weeks?
Nothing breaks and no streak is lost. A direction can remain meaningful while life temporarily demands attention elsewhere. When you return, Macro Focus is designed to help you recover the thread without manufacturing failure or urgency.
Is this therapy or treatment?
No. Macro Focus does not diagnose, provide psychotherapy, or offer medical or addiction treatment. Macro Focus can support reflection, learning, and chosen action, but cannot replace qualified care when a situation requires such care.
What is encrypted, and what is sent when I request a response?
Covered personal text is encrypted on your device before persistent storage. When you deliberately request a companion response, the text needed for that request is sent in readable form to the configured AI provider. The distinction is explained in the privacy policy.
How does the three-month offer work?
A card is required. Nothing is charged during the 93-day launch trial. Your selected plan renews afterward unless you cancel in Settings. Cancel the paid plan and keep Basics free when paid access ends: your written Notes, Focus, Wisdom and mindfulness stay.
Can I cancel directly in Macro Focus?
Yes. Billing controls are available from Settings, including a direct path to cancel the subscription. The product does not hide cancellation behind support messages or retention screens.
What changes between Core and Plus?
Both plans include the same underlying product and privacy model. Core is for a small number of active aims and intentional voice use. Plus adds room for more simultaneous aims, supporting areas, and requested audio. See the full comparison on the pricing page.