What it is
Farlist is a slow journal of long-arc goals. Not tasks, not habits, not a bucket list. Stretches — the hard, meaningful things that take years. Each one moves through a real lifecycle (Idea → Pursuing → Done → Parked), and finishing one earns a sentence, not a checkmark.
The shape of it is deliberately small. Eight fixed categories. Four states. And, at the end, a public profile at a clean URL that reads like the person who wrote it — the artifact isn’t bolted on, it’s the point.
Why I’m building it
For years I kept an impossible list — a Joel Runyon idea, a living set of goals that feel out of reach until they don’t. Mine bounced between Notion pages, a table, the back of a notebook, my Twitter bio, my head. Nothing held the full picture. Nothing survived me moving apartments or switching tools.
I wanted one place that treats those goals the way they actually behave: slowly, in chapters, sometimes set down for a year, sometimes picked back up. Most apps either rush them (streaks, daily check-ins) or flatten them (binary done/not-done). I wanted a Parked state to be a first-class citizen, because in real life it always is.
How it’s built
- Rails 8 + Hotwire, built on the same Blueprint I use across the portfolio
- PostgreSQL + Kamal 2 on a Hostinger VPS
- EN + PT-BR + ES from day one
- Native iOS / Android shells via Hotwire Native, after V1 ships
Where it is
The manifesto and waitlist are live at farlist.app. V1 — the actual app, with stretches, the four-state lifecycle, and the public profile — is in development. This page will get longer once it has something to point at.