Anno Domini MMXXVI · For the Ordering of Daily Life
the Rule of Daily Life
A habit-tracker, day-book, kalendar, and canonical-hours timer in the manner of a late-medieval manuscript. As simple to use as pen and paper, yet written in stone and ink so that nothing is lost — and kept in a place where no eye but yours may read it.
How the Rule is kept
Choose the habits you mean to keep and the day the week begins, and set them down as a monk sets down his vows.
Mark each habit and task in its proper place — a dot for a day, a strike for a finished work, a flame for a rule unbroken.
Let the bell of the abbey divide your day into Prime, Terce, Sext, None, and Compline, with focused labour in between.
The Office
Habits kept by the week, marked in pigment day by day, with the flame of your streak unquenched.
Tasks set down as in a bullet journal — simple, ordered, and struck through when done.
A month at a glance: your tasks and observances appointed to their proper days.
A canonical-hours timer — Prime to Compline — with the bell of the abbey to mark each period.
Readings from the Rule of St. Benedict and the fathers, for the daily strengthening of purpose.
Your pages are written in stone and ink — they follow you to any device, large or small.
The Prologue · Prologus
Listen carefully, my child, to the master's instructions, and attend to them with the ear of your heart. This is advice from a father who loves you; welcome it, and faithfully put it into practice.
— The Rule of St. Benedict
Write your own rule of daily life and keep it faithfully. It is quick to begin, and the bell of the abbey is already sounding.