Second Order Consequences vs KeepCue

A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil. Weeks later, a tornado forms in Texas. Your decisions work exactly the same way. You weigh the raise. You take the job. You move cities, raise your prices, sign the lease. And two years later, the thing that actually reshaped your life is never the thing you sat down to decide. It is the thing that thing caused. That is a second-order consequence: the effect of the effect. Everyone sees step one. Almost nobody sees step three. Step three is where your life is decided. Second Order exists to show you step three. HOW IT WORKS 1. Describe the decision you are facing, in plain language. Any topic, any size. 2. Get its consequences mapped across three time horizons. 3. See the money you had not counted, and the biases quietly steering you. 4. Decide with the whole picture instead of the first step. THE THREE HORIZONS Immediate effects (0 to 6 months). The obvious ones. The raise lands, the commute starts, the lease is signed. The part you were already thinking about. Secondary ripples (6 to 24 months). The effects of those effects. The commute quietly eats the gym, then the cooking, then the evenings you said were keeping you sane. Nobody decides to lose those. They just go. Long term impact (2 to 5 years and beyond). Where it compounds. A salary baseline permanently reset. A location lock-in that narrows every option after it. A burnout pattern you have already lived through twice. Alongside them: the financial impact (estimated cost, the hidden costs nobody mentions, the opportunity cost of what you are not doing instead) and the cognitive traps steering this decision, named outright. IT LEARNS HOW YOU DECIDE A 60-second quiz builds your decision profile: how fast you move, how deep you look, how much risk you carry, how far ahead you see. Every analysis you save sharpens the next one, and the app watches the blind spot you are most likely to repeat. All of it stays on your phone. FIND OUT IF YOU WERE RIGHT Most decision tools stop the moment you decide. Second Order asks you to come back. Set a follow-up when you save a decision. Months later it resurfaces and asks what actually happened. Over time you build something almost nobody has: a real track record of your own judgment, and evidence of which blind spot keeps costing you. EVERYTHING INSIDE - Consequence mapping across three time horizons - Financial impact: estimated, hidden and opportunity cost - Cognitive bias detection on every analysis - Outcome tracking with follow-up reminders - Prediction track record: how often the analysis called it - Your recurring blind spots, charted over time - A private decision journal, stored on your device - Export your journal to PDF - On-device insights written by Apple Intelligence, on iPhone models that support it FREE AND PRO Free gives you the immediate consequences of any decision, plus the recommendation. That is the honest version of the problem: one step ahead. Pro gives you the rest: second and third-order effects, the financial breakdown, bias detection, your full journal history, pattern analysis and prediction track record. PRIVACY No account. No sign-in. No tracking. No analytics. Your journal never leaves your device. To produce an analysis, the decision you type is sent to Google's Gemini API, and only after you explicitly agree, on a screen naming exactly what is transmitted. You can withdraw that permission any time in Settings, and everything already saved stays on your phone. Every choice creates ripples. Most people only ever see the splash. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.dropouts.in/privacypolicy/terms-of-use.html Privacy Policy: https://www.dropouts.in/privacypolicy/privacy-policy.html

KeepCue is a day planner with a visual timeline that shows your calendar alongside. You can add your own tasks, activities, and routines. It comes with helpful ready-made routines that you can easily add to your planner. For those of us who need structure, routines, and flexibility in planning. VISUAL TIMELINE WITH YOUR CALENDAR See your work and personal life at a glance, alongside your existing calendar events. Your schedule and free time in one view: find the time you didn't know you had, fix an overlap you didn't intend, or swap an activity just for this week. KeepCue can show any calendar your Apple Calendar app can access, including iCloud, Google, Outlook, Holidays, Birthdays, and subscribed calendars. KeepCue only reads your calendars, and what it reads stays on your device. ADD YOUR OWN TASKS, ACTIVITIES, AND ROUTINES • Add activities and routines, anchored to time and real moments. • Unlimited one-time activities. Up to 3 repeating activities free. • Repeat daily, on chosen weekdays, or every few days or weeks. • Break anything overwhelming into a checklist of smaller steps. • Customize each activity with your selection from a variety of icons and colors. • Choose how completed activities look: a color tint, dimmed, or a strikethrough line. FLEXIBLE CUE-BASED ROUTINES Let your cues guide you back on track. Instead of fixed times, anchor activities and routines to approximate time blocks plus something that already happens in your daily life, e.g., when you wake up, when you walk through the front door, when you close your laptop. A cue is something that already happens in your day that you can tie to your routine, something that tells your brain the routine starts now. KeepCue provides 60+ cue ideas to get you started. READY-MADE ROUTINES KeepCue comes with real, helpful routines for morning, afterwork, night, and weekends that you can easily add to your planner. Morning: Core, Full Afterwork: WFH Afterwork Transition, Post-shift Recovery Night: Minimalist, Wind-Down, Work & School Weekends: Sunday Reset, Weekend Recovery DARK MODE KeepCue goes by your iPhone's settings, whether Light or Dark mode. There are also dark and tinted app icons, for when you customize your Home Screen icons to Dark or Tinted. REMINDER NOTIFICATIONS Get a reminder when an activity is about to start, or 5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes before. Reminders cover your KeepCue activities only, not your calendar events. Tapping a reminder opens the activity's details. Completing an activity clears its reminder. HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS • Small widget: the activity you're on, or the next one. Also works in StandBy mode. • Lock Screen widget: see what's next on the Lock Screen. • (Pro) Next activities medium widget: a short list of activities coming up today. • (Pro) Checklist widgets: choose a routine and check off its steps right on the widget. You can add more than one checklist widget. PRIVACY No ads, no account, and your data is never sold. Your activities and routines stay on your device. FREE AND PRO KeepCue has a generous free tier with no time limit. It includes the visual timeline with your calendar, ready-made routines, up to 3 repeating activities, unlimited one-time activities, cues, checklists, reminders, and the small and Lock Screen widgets. An optional upgrade to KeepCue Pro adds the next activities and checklist widgets, unlimited repeating activities, and every future Pro feature. Choose monthly, yearly, or lifetime. Monthly and yearly renew automatically until you cancel. Lifetime is a one-time purchase with access forever. All plans support Family Sharing. Early users: If you first downloaded KeepCue before version 2.7, you have KeepCue Pro for life, including every future Pro feature. No purchase or code is needed. Thanks for being early. SUPPORT Questions or feedback? Reach out at support@keepcue.app Website: https://keepcue.app Terms of Use: https://keepcue.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://keepcue.app/privacy