Systems Atlas Project hello@systemsatlasproject.com

A one-person studio

The systems are complicated. The tools shouldn't be.

The Systems Atlas Project started as an attempt to map how large systems fit together. It turned into something more useful: a handful of small, evidence-based tools, each aimed at one patch of terrain, each built to be honest about what it measures.

The Systems Atlas map A contour map. Four surveyed stations are marked — Konki for the body, Shutoku for language, Kantetsu for resolve, and Bottou for attention. A dashed route runs from a point in the lower left, past each station, to an X in the upper right. Konki The body Shutoku Language Kantetsu Resolve Bottou Attention
The dot is where you are. The X is wherever you're trying to get to. The four tools are what's on the way — each one surveying a single domain, each one linked above.

Surveyed so far

Four tools, four domains, one person.

The body Konki
Perseverance. A fitness tracker that adapts to what you can actually do, and counts your own bodyweight as load when it should. konki.app ↗ Language Shutoku
Mastery, acquisition. A spaced-repetition system for Japanese vocabulary, with conjugation and a dictionary you can actually filter. shutoku.app ↗ Resolve Kantetsu
Resolve carried through. You write your own rules and mark honestly, once a day, whether you kept them. Miss a day you were due and the streak breaks. kantetsu.app ↗ Attention Bottou
Total absorption. Measures unbroken focus, and refuses to give you a pause button, because pause would let you hide a break inside a block. bottou.app ↗

What they have in common

The constraints are the product.

No advertising

Not a growth tactic that hasn't been tried yet — a line that doesn't get crossed. You buy the app or you subscribe to it, and that's the whole of the relationship. Nothing in here is trying to hold your attention longer than it needs to.

Honest measurement

If a number can't be trusted, it doesn't get shown. Streaks that quietly forgive you, timers that pause, schedules you can rewrite backwards — each one makes the figure more comfortable and less true.

Local-first

Every app works fully without an account. Your data lives on your device, and syncing is something you opt into rather than something that happens to you.

Small on purpose

Each app measures one thing. None of them are trying to become a platform, and none of them will grow a social feed. The scope is the point.

On the names

根気konki
perseverance
習得shutoku
mastery
貫徹kantetsu
carried through
没頭bottou
absorption

The Japanese naming isn't decoration. English lacks single unclaimed words for these compressed ideas, and Japanese has them — a word for the specific stubbornness that gets you through a long project, another for the state of being so absorbed you lose track of time.

Every name is a Latin spelling you can type: Konki, Shutoku, Kantetsu, Bottou. The kanji stays where it belongs — on the box, not in the interface.

Colophon

Built by one person, slowly.

Everything here is designed, built, and shipped by Jude Gordon. The apps are SwiftUI, the backends are boring on purpose, and nothing is outsourced.

If something's broken, or you want to talk about any of it: hello@systemsatlasproject.com.