A private place to remember what matters.
Jaxen is a personal home base for your life — people, plans, decisions, memories — kept in plain notes on your own device. No account. No feed. Nobody watching.
“This is not homework. You don’t have to use all of it. It’s just a private place to keep track of your life, so your future self has a better memory.”
Jackson chameleon mode
Color changes, slow eyes, good grip.
The site keeps the person mostly out of frame and lets the habitat do the talking: mountain stillness, porch rituals, and a little reptile-bright weirdness around the edges.
A palette pulled from casque, ridge, leaf, bark, and morning light.
Grounded
Built from quiet routines, useful work, and the kind of thinking that happens before the day gets loud.
Adaptive
The theme can shift without losing its grip: earthy when it needs to be, bright when it wants to be noticed.
Oddly bright
A personal site should have a little strangeness in it — enough to remember where you landed.
What it is
One quiet place for your whole life
Not another app to keep up with. Jaxen is a ready-made set of simple pages — a home base you open when something is worth keeping.
People
The ones who matter, and what matters to them.
Projects
Real-life projects — move, fix, buy, plan.
Goals
A few honest directions, not resolutions.
Decisions
What you chose, and why, at the time.
Health
Patterns worth noticing, questions for the doctor.
Money
Bills, subscriptions, plans. No passwords, ever.
Learning
Whatever you're curious about right now.
Memories
Stories and days you'd hate to lose.
Documents
Where the important papers actually are.
Ideas
The junk drawer, in the best sense.
Why bother
Phones remember photos. Not meaning.
Life moves fast, and memory is worse than anyone admits.
Your phone keeps the pictures and the messages — but not why you took the job. Not what the doctor actually said. Not the story your grandfather told once, at the table, and never again.
Jaxen gives your future self context: your own words, written at the time it happened. Ten years from now, that’s something almost nobody has.
How it works
Three habits. None of them takes long.
- 1
Open Home
One page with everything on it. Today, the week, your projects, your people. It takes a few seconds to look at.
- 2
Write down what matters
A thought, a conversation, a thing to remember. In your own words, the way you'd say it out loud. Thirty seconds, most days.
- 3
Review once in a while
Glance at the week on Sundays. Look at money and health once a month. Missing a week breaks nothing — it just waits.
What’s inside
A small set of folders that explain themselves
Every page works on its own — use two of them or all twelve.
Plus a handful of fill-in templates — for a person, a project, a decision — short enough that you’ll actually use them.
iPad setup
Set it up once, in about ten minutes
Nothing to configure afterward.
- 1
Get Obsidian
It's a free notes app on the App Store. No account needed. Search “Obsidian”, install it.
- 2
Download Life OS
Tap the download button on this page. Open the file in the Files app and it will unpack into a folder called “Life OS”. Move it somewhere easy to find, like On My iPad.
- 3
Open the folder in Obsidian
Open Obsidian, tap “Open folder as vault”, and pick the Life OS folder. Allow access when it asks.
- 4
Tap “Read Me First”
It's one page, and it explains everything else. That's the whole setup — about ten minutes, once.
Want it on a phone or computer too? Install Obsidian there and open the same folder. But the iPad alone is plenty.
From Dad
A note before you open it
This is not a system you have to maintain perfectly. It’s just a place I wish I had when I was younger.
There are things I’d give a lot to be able to look up now. What I was thinking before the big choices. Things my parents said that I was sure I’d remember. I didn’t write them down, and most of it is gone.
You don’t need to use this every day. Write down what feels worth keeping, ignore the rest, and let it sit. If you leave it alone for three months, it will be right where you left it — no catching up, no falling behind.
It’s yours. Nobody else can see it, including me.
— Dad
Take it with you
One small download, yours to keep
A folder of plain notes called Life OS — no email, no account, no strings.
jaxen-life-os.zip · plain text · opens with the free Obsidian app