Life chapter
Up to five focus areas, a “not now” list and an anti-vision.
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LIFE-DESIGN APP · PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Dreamward
A private app that turns the life you envision into the life you live, with an AI companion on your own AI.
LAUNCHINGIN SHORT
Dreamward is a private life-design app: a book of twelve life areas, a current life chapter, an IKIGAI wizard, goals with measurable progress, a journal and vision boards, with an AI companion that runs on the user’s own AI subscription. It is the second generation of Lifebook, and it runs as a desktop app or self-hosted, in English and Hebrew.
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CASE STUDY
Problem. Approach. Outcome.
- The problem
- A life plan written once a year stops living. Goal apps don’t hold a vision, notes apps don’t drive action, and the content is too personal to hand to a SaaS company.
- The approach
- Start from meaning — a life chapter, a life wheel and IKIGAI — then break it into goals and actions. Every account gets its own database; AI proposes, the person approves.
- The outcome
- First public release, v0.4.0, with desktop installers and one-line self-hosting. Its first generation, Lifebook, went from first release to v0.3.1 in 26 days.
HOW IT WORKS
Meaning → focus → action.
From who you want to be to what you do this week.
Life wheel & IKIGAI
Rate each area against your vision, then find what the whole life is for.
Goals & actions
Progress, momentum and at-risk signals, down to the next small step.
Lify, on your own AI
Daily plan, weekly review and goal drift — proposals you approve, never silent edits.
IMAGES
The work, shown.
Note. Counts are measured from the public repository at v0.4.0 (September 2026). Screens show fictional demo data.
Source. Dreamward repository and changelog, v0.4.0, September 2026; Lifebook project overview v0.3.1.