Some apps want your evening. This one wants two minutes. One idea a day from 12 fields, carried or let go, and then it gets out of your way. Free, for good.
One idea a day, from 12 fields that rarely share a room. Read it, carry it or let it go, then close the app. It takes two minutes. It stays with you much longer.
This morning it might be a Japanese word for sunlight through leaves. Tomorrow, why asking for help makes people trust you more. The day after, a quiet argument that doubt and conviction are not opposites. Philosophy, psychology, mathematics, language, history and the strange science of being a person. Put enough ideas in, from enough different places, and they start connecting on their own.
one card, one choice
Each day there is one card: a headline, a short read, sometimes a question worth bringing to dinner. Carry it, or let it go. There is no wrong answer, nothing to catch up on, and no feed waiting underneath.
the house you build by noticing
Every thought you carry adds a room to your house of thought, one room for each field. The ones you let go settle as soil beneath it, because what you pass on shapes you too. A few weeks in, the house tells you something a streak never could: not how often you showed up, but how far your thinking has traveled.
the margin
Now and then, today’s thought turns out to rhyme with one you kept a month ago. A single line appears in the margin, naming what the two share. Psychologists call this elaborative encoding. You will know it as the moment Tuesday’s idea finally made sense on Friday.
ask your own collection
Walking into a hard conversation, a big decision, a pitch? Ask what your collection thinks. The answer draws on the ideas you have carried and quotes them back to you. Not the whole internet. Yours.
your thinker type
Keep a few sample ideas when you begin and you will meet your type, from The Lens Shifter to The Paradox Mind. It decides which ideas find you first.
built to be closed
No endless scroll. No streak to protect. No guilt for a missed day. On iPhone and iPad, on your Lock Screen and your Home Screen, and then out of your way.
free, for good
The daily idea, carry and let go, every thought you have ever kept, your house of thought, your type, your journal, widgets and Siri.
membership
More room to think: up to 10 Ask questions a day instead of one, every margin instead of the first few, the full bed of thoughts you let go, and a written portrait of how your mind works. Monthly or yearly, with 7 days free on yearly, or once for life. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings.
What you ask and what you write in your journal stays on your device. Questions are answered, never kept on our servers.
Privacy Policy: https://onegoodthing.space/privacy
Terms of Use: https://onegoodthing.space/terms
I’ve been using One Good Thing for a bit now and I actually really like it. It’s super simple, but it kinda makes you slow down and notice something good in your day, which is nice.The app is really easy to use and not complicated at all, so it doesn’t feel like a chore to keep up with. I’ve been using it pretty regularly and it’s honestly become a small part of my routine.If you want something chill that helps you stay a little more positive, I’d say it’s definitely worth checking out.
Awesome Start of my Day
JustMKEChaz
This thoughtful and thought provoking app is now part of my morning routine. This has been both interesting while reading the daily entry but also I think of what I have read through my hectic day. Especially last Monday:“Nobody questions the busy person. Busy is the only socially acceptable addiction. It comes with praise, not intervention. But busyness is sometimes a fortress. If every hour is scheduled, there is no time for the thoughts that arrive in the gaps. No time to sit with the marriage. No time to feel the grief. No time to notice the distance between the life you are living and the life you want. The question is not whether you are productive. The question is what would surface if you stopped.”Highly recommended!Huge props to the developer and thank you!
A Moment of Respite
skychilde
I grabbed this off of one of Reddit thinking nothing of it initially, but I make sure to check it every day now because while I’m reading the thought, it truly helps to clear the clutter that my brain puts me through all day long, even if only for a minute or two. I cannot recommend this app more than I already do.
Bait and switch
Idontwantyourstupidnick
Promises to be free but then after a few days of use demands that you give them your email to set up an account I already said multiple times I didn’t want. My privacy is worth more to me than any value this app provides.[Update] In response to the dev comment below, if I had wanted to have an account, I would have accepted the previous offers to set one up. For a week I had an option to decide whether I need any of the extra features (I don’t) but after a week I can’t be trusted with my choice and my access to the app is blocked unless I set up an account. Classic bait and switch. Don’t fall for it.
Developer Response
Thanks for sharing this. We understand where you’re coming from, and we’re sorry the experience felt frustrating.One Good Thing is free to use, but an email address is required so your collection can be saved securely to your account. This lets you keep your history if you reinstall the app, switch devices, or get a new phone.We only ask for what’s needed to make that work, and we take privacy seriously.
New in 3.0: the thoughts you keep now build a house, one room for each of 12 fields, and the ones you let go become its soil. Come see what yours looks like.
Version 3.0.2
The developer, Supratim Dam, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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