For iPhone
A daily practice scored in points, a library of fifty-one classics, and flashcards in twelve languages. One quiet app that keeps all of it on your own devices.
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“I made a little book, in which I allotted a page for each of the virtues. I rul’d each page with red ink, so as to have seven columns, one for each day of the week.”
Benjamin Franklin · Autobiography, Part 5 · in the Adagia library
Three practices
Today
3 of 5meditations today
Tasks are done once; routines count up, three stretches or five meditations. Every completion earns its points toward the day’s target.
Library
51works · 109,052 passages
Philosophy, scripture, novels and plays from the public domain, read in full and in context. A passage a day from somewhere on the shelf.
Study
12languages
Save a passage and it becomes a flashcard. Cards come back on a schedule: sooner when you struggle, later when you don’t.
The passages you read become the cards you review, and the practice becomes the day’s score.
On the shelf
All public domain, from Project Gutenberg. Older texts on health, food and the mind are included as literature, not as medical advice. Among them:
A commonplace book
Don’t demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.
Work is love made visible.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
Study
Privacy
Adagia has no servers. What you write stays on your devices, and in your own iCloud if you turn sync on. Read the privacy policy.
The name
In 1500 Erasmus published the Adagia, a collection of proverbs gathered from his classical reading, each with his commentary. He kept adding to it for the rest of his life; the last edition held 4,151. It is the most famous commonplace book there is: a place to keep what you read so that it stays with you.
This app is a small one in the same spirit, with a habit tracker attached.