About
Start with an End.
Actus Humani is an outliner for the things you are actually trying to accomplish — with the time they cost tracked honestly, and a stated criterion for when each one is finished.
Ends and acts
An End is something you intend: a book written, a language learned, a room rebuilt. Every end carries a criterion — one sentence saying what would make it attained. This is the part most task systems leave out, and leaving it out is what lets a goal drift for years without ever succeeding or failing.
Beneath each end are acts: a nested outline you write the way you would take notes, with estimates entered inline as you type. Acts can be scheduled onto a day, timed while you work on them, and tagged with the stage of the human act they belong to.
Why Aquinas
In the Summa Theologiae (I-II, qq. 8–17) Thomas Aquinas analyses a single complete action into twelve stages, alternating between intellect and will: the end is apprehended, wished for, judged attainable and intended; the means are deliberated, consented to, judged and chosen; the act is commanded, used, executed and — if it goes well — enjoyed.
This is not decoration. It is the most precise diagnostic instrument I know of for stalled work. A project that will not move is stalled at one identifiable stage, and the stages fail in completely different ways: a missing intention is not a missingcommand, and a missingjudgment of attainability is not laziness. Naming the stage tells you what to repair.
It also insists on something modern productivity culture has quietly dropped: fruition, the twelfth stage, where a thing is finished and rested in. Attained ends do not disappear here. They stay in the record with their criterion and the hours they actually took.
How it works
Everything lives in your browser first. The application is a single self-contained page with no framework and no build step; it opens instantly, works offline, and remains usable if this website disappears tomorrow. You can export everything to a JSON file at any time, and export or import a single end on its own.
Sync across devices is optional. When you turn it on, your data isend-to-end encrypted in your browser before it is uploaded: the server stores opaque blobs and cannot read your ends, your acts, your tags, or your time logs. Sign-in is by emailed code — there is no password to steal.
The honest trade-off. Because the encryption key never leaves your devices, nobody can recover your data for you — not even us. If you lose every signed-in device and the recovery code, the data is gone. That is the cost of a server that genuinely cannot read your goals, and it is stated here rather than buried.