A quiet place
for what you want,
who you love,
and who you're becoming.
anansi is the journal you'd write if your journal could see the threads between things.
Goals that know which values they answer to. People you tend to, not manage. Reflections that compound, week after week. One thinking surface for the long arc of a life.
Not a tracker.
A thinking surface.
Every app built around “your goals” eventually becomes a guilt machine. anansi makes a different bet — that the things worth tending are too slow for streaks, and too quiet for notifications.
It isn't
- —A habit tracker — Streaks turn rest into failure.
- —A productivity tool — More done isn't the goal.
- —A contact manager — People aren't records.
- —A journal you forget to write in — Empty pages are okay here.
- —A growth-hacked feed — No streaks, no badges, no nudges.
It is
A place to write down what you want and notice which threads pull at which. A reflection-only Personal CRM that asks not “when did I last contact them” but “what do I want to repair?” A Self page that's a portrait, not a profile.
Empty fields read as clean pages. The system computes which goal is now important from the threads you've drawn. Tasks promote themselves toward you as their deadline approaches.
anansi is what you'd build for yourself if you trusted slow software.
“Built for the long arc, not the dopamine hit.”— the first line we wrote
Six places to put a thought.
Each one has a different shape because the kinds of thinking it holds are different. A goal is not a person. A value is not a task. A weekly note is not a bucket-list item.
Pulse
What's the week asking of you, right now. Tracking items to fill in. Upcoming bids to make. Next month's horizon, quietly visible underneath.
Self
This-year shape. My story. How I love, apologize, fight, stress. The patterns I'm catching gently. Released. Just for me. A page you write for yourself, not anyone else.
Objectives
Goals as cards on a free-positioned canvas. Connections carry weight. Importance is computed, not declared. Look at the canvas and the heaviness shows you where to look.
People
No phone numbers, no last-contacted timer. Per person: appreciation, my needs, legacy message, next bids, the dates that matter. To-process · exploring · long-term · context-bound.
Values
Named, colored tags that ride along with goals. Each value carries its own behavior list — short evidence sentences for what living this value looks like, this week.
Bucket List
Tag each item with the people you want to do it with. Not a checklist of trophies — a list of moments you'd grieve not having tried.
Talk to it
through Claude.
anansi speaks Model Context Protocol. Connect it to Claude — Desktop, Code, or claude.ai — and capture goals, schedule next bids, edit your Self page, all by talking.
- ›Schedule coffee with Mom next Tuesday.
- ›Add 'apologize to Lucia' as a next bid, due in two weeks.
- ›What's on my mind for the year ahead?
- ›Create a goal for the marathon and tag it with health and growth.
Sign in once, paste your anansi URL into Claude's connector dialog, approve the consent screen that opens in your browser. The exact URL + a copy-pasteable .mcp.json snippet live in Settings → Anansi for Claude.
Anansi is the OAuth authorization server. Tokens are scoped to your account, refresh on a 30-day clock, and revoke instantly from your Claude client.
What people say,
quietly.
anansi holds the things you don't say out loud. So when people talk about it, they tend to whisper. We asked. Here's what they wrote back — anonymous, as they wanted.
It's the first place I've written anything down where I don't feel watched by a streak. I missed three weeks and it didn't punish me. I came back because I wanted to.
I used the People section to write down what I needed from my brother for ten years. We had the conversation a month later. He cried. I didn't know I knew it that clearly until it was on the page.
It is the only app I've ever used that doesn't make me feel slightly worse about myself when I open it. I open it more.
My goals don't feel like a checklist anymore. They feel like questions I'm asking myself. The weight thing — where importance is just visible — changed how I think about ambition.
The Self page is something I'd never have written by myself. The prompts are gentle. “How do I apologize.” “How I love when I love well.” I'd never have asked. I'm glad someone did.
I run a 40-person team. anansi is the only software I have that's just for me. That distinction matters more than I expected.
We don't publish identifying details. anansi is the kind of software where most users would rather not be named — and we'd rather earn quiet trust than loud reach.
Why a spider?
anansi is named after the West African spider-trickster — keeper of stories, weaver of webs. The mark you've seen throughout this page is Ananse Ntontan, the Adinkra symbol for the spider's web. It stands for wisdom, creativity, and the complexity of life.
The metaphor isn't decorative. anansi is a graph: every goal connects to other goals, to values, to people, to tasks, to the weekly reflection that sits over all of them. Pull on one thread and the others move. The whole point is to see the threads.
One price.
A year at a time.
anansi is a yearly subscription, not a monthly one — because the things this app holds move on the scale of years, not weeks. Start any time. Cancel any time. We won't email you.
A year
most chosen- All six surfaces · unlimited goals · unlimited people
- Yearly review · self-portrait history
- Encrypted backups · one-click export
- Quiet by design — no nudges, no email digest
A lifetime
limited- Everything in A Year
- All future surfaces, forever
- Founder's badge in your profile · one free gift year
- Direct line to the team for feature requests
Students, hospice workers, therapists: it's free for you. Write us from your institutional email.
The life you'd write down,
if you trusted slow software.
This is a quiet app. It won't pull at you. It'll be there when you come back.