A study goal tracker for consistent progress
Compound is a study and career goal tracker for iPhone that asks one question a day: did you get closer to your goal today? A real study session, a chapter finished, a step toward the promotion — tap ↑ Closer. Your answers build a trajectory chart of the consistency that exams and careers are actually made of. Free on the App Store, 3–5 seconds a day.
Why study tracking usually fails
Study apps tend to track time — pomodoros, hours logged, calendar blocks — but hours logged aren’t progress, and everyone knows the difference between a real session and a staring-at-notes session. Compound asks the only question that matters at the end of the day: did today actually move you toward the exam, the language, the career?
Long goals fail quietly, through weeks of “I’ll catch up later” that never register anywhere. A daily honest answer registers them — gently, before the drift becomes a crisis.
And because the question is broad, it survives changing tactics: new textbook, new course, new job strategy. The goal evolves; the daily signal stays the same.
How Compound tracks study & career goals
Name the chapter you’re in — “Pass the bar exam,” “Conversational Spanish,” “Land the senior role” — and answer one question each evening. The chart accumulates your honest days into visible momentum across weeks and months, exactly the timescale real progress happens on.
- Two focused hours on the hard material → ↑ Closer
- Busy day, kept the streak of intent alive with 20 minutes → → Same
- Procrastinated the session away → ↓ Further — noted, and tomorrow is new
When one chapter ends — exam passed, role landed — you start the next goal, and the chart begins a new story.
What a procrastinated week looks like in Compound
A shallow dip — a few ↓ Further and → Same days — that stays in proportion to the months around it. Nothing resets, nothing lectures. The chart just quietly shows the drift, which is usually all the correction an honest person needs.
Procrastination thrives in the dark: no record, no reckoning, no problem. A three-second nightly answer is the gentlest possible way to keep the light on.
Compound never escalates. The cost of a lost week is seeing it — and the reward for getting back to work appears on the same chart, immediately.
Pulse notices how you actually study
Pulse, part of Compound Pro, reflects your recent pattern back to you — when your real sessions happen, what precedes your drift weeks, how this month compares to last.
“Mornings carry this goal: nearly every ‘Closer’ came from a session before noon. The evening plans mostly became ‘Same’ days.”
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See you tomorrow.
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