About
An instrument for the part of planning nobody measures.
Why this exists
This paragraph is meant to be a first-person account — short, and in the founder's own words. It has not been written yet, and it will not be invented here. Every other section on this page is final.
What SUSCEPTA is not
- Not a habit tracker. There are no streaks. A habit is repeated; an undertaking ends.
- Not a to-do app. A task list tells you what is open. This tells you whether the whole thing is still possible.
- Not a coach. It does not encourage you, and it has no opinion about your character.
- Not a therapist or a financial adviser. It plans and measures. It does not treat, and it does not advise on money.
The name
Suscipere is Latin for to take up, to undertake. Suscepta is its feminine past participle: the thing taken up, that which has been undertaken. It is pronounced sus-SEP-ta — stress the second syllable.
It also contains the English word susceptible, which means vulnerable. That is not a problem to be explained away. Being susceptible is being capable of being moved, and a plan that cannot be moved by evidence has stopped being a plan. The name and the mechanism say the same thing.
Where it stands
A working iOS 1.0 build exists and runs on the simulator. It is not on the App Store, it has no public listing, and no release date has been announced. The interface is currently in French; English localisation is a condition of release rather than a later improvement.
That is the whole status. It is written here in the same form it appears on the homepage, because a status that changes between pages is not a status.