How it works, in detail
From “I want to…” to today’s next step.
Tell Enku what you want to achieve. Build a personalized plan, discover ideas that can help, track your progress, and keep moving toward your goal.
Define my goal
Say what you want in your own words, even if it’s still fuzzy. Enku asks one question at a time.
Build my plan
Together you shape a realistic plan: why it matters, how you’ll know it’s working, milestones and a first step for today.
Take action
Every day shows one next step. Small enough to actually do.
Track progress
Check in in seconds: completed it, some progress, didn’t get to it, or the plan needs to change.
Adjust
Change the plan whenever life changes. You approve every change, and earlier versions are kept.
Achieve my goal
Keep going one day at a time, and see honestly what helped.
Behind every plan is a Goal Lab experiment you can check in on each day: myEnku is a goal plan with its own deadline, reviewed every 30 days by default (any review period from 21 to 70 days), with an optional path of ideas to try (a 10-week path by default, shorter if your review period is shorter). Your goal’s deadline is separate: a 10-month goal is still reviewed every 30 days.
Shorter experiments keep the same shape
Every path ends with weeks that check your work. When you choose fewer weeks, those stay and the practice weeks get fewer. You can also pick any length from 21 to 70 days.
- Practice weeks
- One practice from your guide each week, adapted rather than quoted. Shorter experiments keep the guide’s first practices and drop the later ones.
- Comparison week
- A plain week without the guide’s practice, so you can see what the practice actually changed. Kept at every length.
- Replication week
- Repeat what helped most, to check it wasn’t a fluke. A week of its own at 6 weeks or more. In shorter experiments it folds into the review.
- Review week
- Look back at your numbers and notes and decide what to keep. Always the last week.
- 10 weeks: 7 practice weeks, a comparison week, a replication week and a review.
- 6 weeks: 3 practice weeks, a comparison week, a replication week and a review.
- 30 days (default): 3 practice weeks, a comparison week, then a review that also repeats what helped.
- 3 weeks (shortest): 1 practice week, a comparison week, then a review that also repeats what helped.
Optional help for your goal
Ideas you can add to your plan, if they help.
You never need to choose one. Start with your goal; if an idea fits, apply it to your plan and it’s measured the same way. Faith and ritual ideas are only suggested if you ask for spiritual guidance.
Practical
Habits & Systems
Adapted from James Clear
Build practical routines instead of relying on motivation.
Atomic Habits
Reflective
Stoic Reflection
Adapted from Marcus Aurelius
Control your actions, not every outcome; practice wise judgment.
Meditations
Reflective
Wu Wei & Balance
Adapted from Lao Tzu
Learn patience, timing, simplicity, and non-forcing action.
Tao Te Ching
Also on the shelf
- Explore All Teachings
- Purpose & Belief
- Intention & Gratitude
- Meditation & Rehearsal
- Action & Detachment
- Opportunity & Preparation
- Faith & Stewardship
- Symbolic Rituals
- Tiny Habits
- Growth Mindset
- Focus & Deep Work
- Money Systems
- Daily Discipline
- Resilience & Accountability
A full 10-week review period
Seven weeks of practice. Then we check our work.
Each week brings one adapted teaching, a short practice and a reflection question. The last weeks are what make it an experiment rather than a program. Shorter experiments keep them (see how lengths adapt).
- W1Teaching
- W2Teaching
- W3Teaching
- W4Teaching
- W5Teaching
- W6Teaching
- W7Teaching
- W8CompareComparison week
- W9RepeatReplication week
- W10ReviewReview & next steps
At 10 weeks, weeks 1–7 bring one adapted teaching each, from the guide you chose.
Week 8 · Comparison
Fewer practices, same measuring. A neutral week to see what your number does without the extra effort.
Week 9 · Replication
Bring back what seemed to help and see if it helps again. Once is a story; twice is a pattern worth noticing.
Week 10 · Review
Look at the whole run with Enku: outcome, process and observations side by side. Keep, change or start again.
Three kinds of evidence, kept apart
- Outcome
- Your number against target and pace.
- Process
- What you did: practices, check-ins, declarations, resets.
- Observations
- Confidence, mood and hunches logged before results.
We’re looking, not proving. It isn’t a randomized trial, and we say so.
One-Minute Reset
Pause. Notice. Act.
A quiet countdown for the moment you feel stuck: one, three or five minutes, silent by default, with an optional reflection after. Enku says one line before and stays out of the way during.
Honest measurement
The promises we can actually keep.
We measure. We don’t promise.
No practice is claimed to cause an outcome. Projections are labeled estimates, never predictions of money or weight.
Your numbers stay yours
Switching guides never resets progress or changes what past entries meant. The math is the same whichever path you walk.
Gurus teach. Enku walks with you.
Teachings are adapted paraphrases with sources. Enku never speaks as a teacher and never invents a quote.
Clear about what’s AI
Enku’s tips in the app are scripted rules over your own data. The “Talk to Enku” chat is AI, is labeled as AI, and only sees your experiment if you switch that on.
Private by default
Your experiment lives on your device. No account, no ads, no selling data. Export a full backup any time. Chat messages go to Cloudflare Workers AI only when you send them.
No commission ranking
Ideas and books are recommended on fit alone, never by commission. Some book buttons are Amazon affiliate links, always labeled, with a disclosure next to them.
Meet Enku
Gurus teach. Enku walks with you.
Enku is a small seed with a pearl staff and a gentle habit of asking one good question. It shows up at the edges of your day: a check-in, a setback, a win, the weekly review. Then it gets out of the way so your data stays front and center.
- Points at your real numbers, never made-up ones
- Kind about missed days. No guilt, no streak shaming
- Introduces teachers in the third person, with sources
Happy
“Logged. That’s 5 this week.”
Thinking
“Three guides fit what you told me. Want the reasons?”
Encouraging
“Yesterday didn’t get logged. Want to log today?”
Celebrating
“Seven check-ins in a row. That’s the habit, not the number.”