April, in a few notes

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Dear Life Noters! 

Two things came to life this month, and here's what's new.

Life Note now fully supports 8+ languages.

The mentors speak 14 languages, but the full experience now supports Japanese, Korean, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. 

If you'd love to see your language being fully supported, just reach out and let us know!

Goals, redesigned around you.

Life is not project management.

Most goal apps treat it like one. Set the target, track the metric, mark it done. We don't think the goals that actually matter, to become someone, to live more honestly, to honor what you care about, work that way.

So we rebuilt the whole goal experience this month. Around the process. Not the finish line.

• Your mentors come with the goal. They'll nudge you when you've been quiet, share their thoughts along the way, and ask the questions that keep you honest with yourself.
• Each goal has its own home. A chat and a journal that live with that goal, so the reflections don't get lost in the noise.
• A place for everything you've achieved. Evidence of your own action you can return to.
• 23 timeless practices. Drawn from what your mentors actually did. Morning pages, shadow work, the Stoic reflection. Pick one. See how it sits.

Goals come in three layers now: a long-term life goal, yearly goals beneath it, and short-term practices that build momentum into the texture of your day. This will allow you to think long-term while experimenting with different actions in your daily life. 

This isn't perfect. Try it. Please tell us what you'd change.

Life Note Community News

A Life Noter shared his honest 5-month journaling journey with Life Note on X:

“After about five months of trial and error, I finally found a journaling habit that grounds me.”

The article got a lot of love in the community, and I've personally learned a lot from reading it; it's in Japanese, but you can easily translate it. Here's one paragraph from the article that I really enjoyed: 

“To accurately understand your present reality is what gives you productivity and a useful worldview. Beliefs do not appear overnight. Through the small daily accumulation of journaling, their outline becomes clearer little by little. I have felt this deeply over the past five months.

I believe people who can act without hesitation are not people who do not think. They are people who have already finished thinking. Journaling is precisely the habit that creates that state of ‘thinking already completed.’ I can now say this not as a theory, but from lived experience.

What accumulates through journaling is not knowledge or know-how, but the ability to understand yourself.

When you abstract what you write in your journal, it becomes Belief.

When you make what you write more concrete and dig deeply into it, it becomes a story. This is the benefit of journaling: You reclaim your storytelling authority. You deepen your beliefs.

By writing things down, you can grasp your current reality and the shape of your values with greater precision.

When you externalize your thoughts and emotions, you begin to notice:

“Ah, I unconsciously cared about this.”

“Ah, I actually hold this value.”

This is the scientific mechanism known as cognitive externalization.

I never imagined I would become this fascinated by it. I hope this piece can become the reason someone takes their first step into journaling.”

Hope you enjoyed that... and that's it for April, see you in May! 

Reply if anything resonates. I read everything.

Hello Life Noters!

四月中， Life Note 誕生兩樣新事物～

Life Note 現在完整支援 8+ 種語言

導師們可以使用 14 種語言回應，但完整體驗現在已支援日文、韓文、德文、葡萄牙文、西班牙文，以及簡體中文與繁體中文。

若你希望我們完整支援你的語言，歡迎直接回信告訴我們！

圍繞著你的人生目標體驗

人生不是專案管理。

大多數目標 App 都把人生當成專案管理。設定目標、追蹤數字、標記完成。

但我們不認為真正重要的目標是這樣運作的。

當我們想成為某種人、活得更誠實、尊重你真正重視的事—這些目標不是靠打勾完成的。

所以這個月，我們重新設計了「目標體驗」，設計整體圍繞著「過程」，而不是「終點」。

• 你的導師會和目標一起出現。他們會在你沉默太久時輕輕提醒你，在過程中分享想法，也會問那些讓你對自己保持誠實的問題。
• 每個目標都有自己的小天地。一個專屬於這個目標的聊天與日記空間，讓你的反思不會被雜訊淹沒。
• 一個收藏所有你已經完成目標的地方。那是你行動過的證據，你可以不斷回來看見自己。
• 還有 23 個經典練習，來自導師們真實做過的事：晨間隨筆、陰影工作、斯多葛式晚間省思。選一個，看看它如何落在你的生活裡。

現在，目標分成三層：長期人生目標、年度目標，以及能把動能帶進日常的短期練習與任務。這能讓你長期思考，卻在日常中實驗著不同的行動。

還不完美。請試試看，也請告訴我們你想怎麼用它。

Life Note 社群焦點：五個月的探索後，找到讓我安定的寫日記習慣

一位 Life Noter 在 X 上分享了他使用 Life Note 5 個月的真實日記旅程：

「經過大約五個月的嘗試與摸索，我終於找到一個能讓我安定下來的寫日記習慣。」

這篇文章在社群中獲得了許多喜愛，我自己讀完也學到很多。文章是日文，但你可以很容易翻譯。以下是我很喜歡的一段：

「正確掌握自己的現狀，才會帶來生產力，以及有用的世界觀。

信念不會一夜之間出現。透過每天一點一滴累積日記，它的輪廓才會慢慢變得清晰。這五個月來，我深深感受到這一點。

我相信那些能毫不猶豫行動的人，並不是沒有思考，而是已經把思考完成了。

寫日記，正是創造那種『思考已經完成』狀態的習慣。現在，我不是以理論，而是以親身體感說出這件事。

透過寫日記所累積的，不是知識，也不是 know-how，而是理解自己的能力。

當你把日記中的內容抽象化，它會變成信念。

當你把日記中的內容具體化，並深深挖掘，它會變成故事。

這就是寫日記的好處：

你拿回自己的故事敘事權。
你深化自己的信念。

透過寫下來，你可以更精準地掌握自己的現狀，以及價值觀的輪廓。

當你把想法與情緒外部化，你會開始注意到：

『啊，原來我無意識地在意這件事。』

『啊，原來我其實有這樣的價值觀。』

這就是所謂的認知外部化這個科學機制。

我從來沒想過自己會著迷到這種程度。希望這篇內容能成為某個人踏出寫日記第一步的契機。」

以上就是四月的更新，五月見！

如果有任何內容讓你有感，歡迎回信。每一封我都會讀。