A day that ends.

Vene reads how much each task asks of your head, builds a day you can actually finish, then draws a line at the end and keeps your evening on the far side of it.

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The end of a day in Vene: the last work blocks of the afternoon, a dashed line marking the day's edge at dusk, and the words 'The evening is yours' below it.
A real day. The dashed line is the edge; below it, the evening is yours.

chapter ii · see it work

Your list
becomes a day.

You keep a plain list. Vene works out what each thing on it will cost you and lays it into a day with an end.

The Tasks list in Vene: five plain items, each with a small coloured dot for its list and an empty circle to tick.
The list. Yours already, in Reminders.
Those five items laid into a working day of timed blocks, 8am to half past three.
The day. Sized by what each thing asks of you.

chapter iii · it reads

It reads
the task.

Type a line in Reminders. Vene reads it on your Mac, guesses how long it takes and how much of your head it needs, and learns your real pace from what you finish.

Draft the investor update

1h 30m · heavy thinking · your best hours

Reply to the vendor thread

30 min · light · the edge of the day

Read the board deck

1h · steady · after lunch

Read by the on-device model. Nothing is sent anywhere.

chapter iv · runs

Alike work
runs together.

Heavy thinking lands in your best hours, in runs of the same kind of work, so you stay in one way of thinking instead of switching all day.

The Now screen mid-sitting: a three-part ribbon for the run, Write the report, 45m of 6h, and a timer at 44:12.
A run, three sittings deep.

chapter v · the edge

Then it stops.

Vene draws the day’s end in advance, from the hours you keep. Work has to fit before that line. Past it, the Now screen goes off the clock, whether or not you finished.

The Now screen after the edge: 'Off the clock. The evening is yours.' with two quiet choices, choose from backlog or return to a practice.
The Now screen, after the edge.

chapter vi · the law

No streaks.
Nothing turns red.

Vene only ever reacts to what you did, never to what you didn’t. When a week cannot hold what is due, you get a letter and three ways out, not a badge.

A letter from Vene: three things are due Friday and need about 14 hours, there are about 9 hours of room. Three choices follow: move the funding report's deadline, drop the reading list until Monday, do the vendor thread anyway.
The letter, when Friday cannot hold it all.

chapter vii · the evening

The evening
is yours.

When the work is done, Vene has nothing more to ask of you. If you pick up the guitar, press start and it keeps the time. A twenty-minute sitting is logged the same way as an hour, and a night you skip isn’t marked at all.

The Study screen, this week: Classical guitar with a small bar for each day it was played, twenty minutes to an hour and ten, and a dash on the days it was not.
One practice, one week.

chapter viii · the long count

It only
ever grows.

Every sitting you log goes into the Forest, one wood for each practice. It never loses one, and it never notices a day you missed.

A hand-drawn map of trails around a small house, with woods for Italian, Walking and Reading.
The Forest, ten months in.

chapter ix · the sealed page

Your data never
leaves this machine.

There’s no account to make and nothing to sync. What Vene learns about your days is kept on your Mac, and the app has nowhere else to send it.

Free for anyone in education.

Students and teachers pay nothing, now or after launch. All you need is a school email.

Vene for macOS · beta

The beta is open.

Free while in beta. $108 a year at launch.

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