The 4Q Framework
A quiet daily journal
Success is leading the life you truly want, anchored in who you authentically are.
Reflect daily. Live better.
4Q Compass is a calm daily journal across four dimensions of a balanced, self-directed life — intellectual, emotional, health, and financial. It is free. Built for iPhone. Your data stays on your device.
Most days move faster than you can make sense of them. The app holds a quiet moment — morning and evening — across IQ, EQ, HQ, and FQ. Success is not reaching someone else’s summit. It is leading a life that is recognizably, deliberately yours.
Their power shows when all four are in motion together — balance, resilience, and momentum.
A morning intention. An evening alignment — not as good or bad, but honest and steady.
Alignment uses a simple −2 to +2 scale, adapted from Jim Collins’s organizational-assessment work. Reflections are short, focused, and unhurried.
Weekly and monthly review — the same four dimensions, a longer window.
Same journal, longer window. A chance to see the week or month as a whole.
Trend lines. Quadrant balance. Patterns that show themselves over time.
Where a dimension is quiet. Where it is full. A picture of how the days actually went.
Values, roles, vision, and north star — kept in one place.
The life you want, and who you are, held next to the days you record.
A full log of every day that was written.
The record stays on the device. It is there to look back through, not to keep a streak.
JSON, so the history is yours completely.
Export and import stay on the device. No account. No cloud.
No accounts, no cloud, no analytics. No streaks, no badges, no push notifications. No coaching, no ads.
4Q Compass is a mirror. It asks quiet questions and holds what you tell it. What you do with that is yours.
Not sure where you stand yet?
Take the free 4Q Self-Assessment on this siteTwelve statements in your browser. No app download needed.