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Tuesday, 14 October
Good morning, Alex.
Your ICOR for Life
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- Control 12 / 17
- Output 7 / 18
- Refine 1 / 9
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Keith P.Win · in the community
WinI've never been so organized, and feel like I'm really making progress towards a lot of goals.
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Golden nugget
"Information without action is just clutter."
Continue · Task Management like a Pro
Weekly goals and the highlight of the day
- 9,500+members
- 120+countries
- 900+Inner Circle members
- 150+coaching sessions recorded
- 63lessons in the ICOR Journey
Built for founders, executives, consultants and team leads. Of 740 members who introduced themselves, 242 are CEOs or founders.
Sound familiar
Trying every app.
Too many roles. Notes in five places. A new tool every quarter, because this one will solve it. And still, things slip through the cracks.
It isn't a tool problem. It's a missing system.
Too many roles, no time
"There's a lot going on and I just feel that stereotypical frantic water-treading to keep my head just above the surface."
PMPhil M. · CRO and dad of twins
Scattered tools
"My notes and project files are scattered across multiple tools with no real system in place."
JKJack K. · design engineer
Switching tools like shirts
"I switch tools like shirts because 'this one will solve it!'"
KNKyle N. · director of operations
Dropping balls
"I am not organised and am often on the back foot because I have missed things."
NFNick F. · consultant
Falling behind on AI
"I'm looking for a future-proof way to connect my workflows so I can stop feeling like I'm constantly falling behind."
MTMatt T.
From members' introductions in the myICOR community, before they started.
One brain, in two parts
You don't need a second brain.
One is enough.
Your head does the creative work and the judgement. Your system does the storing and the finding. Both move through the same four stages. That's what makes them one brain.
The ICOR Methodology
Four stages. Every piece of information, every action, moves through them.
- Input. Capture what matters. Get it out of your head and into one place.
- Control. Organise it. Give what you know a structure you can trust.
- Output. Ship it. Turn plans into finished work, week by week.
- Refine. Improve it. Automate with care, and keep one source of truth.
One home for each kind of thing. Not one tool for everything. Clear ownership, so you always know where to put it and where to find it again.
The ICOR Framework · free for everyone
Draw your map. See your whole setup on one screen.
Two questions sort every tool you use. Is it about knowing, or getting done? Is it for you, or for your team? Four boxes. Maybe for the first time, you see where everything lives.
- Core tool. The home for one kind of thing.
- Satellite. A helper to one core tool.
- Utility. Used everywhere, in its own row.
For youFor your team
KnowingGetting done
PKM Personal Knowledge Management
Obsidiancore
ReadwisesatelliteBKM Business Knowledge Management
NotioncorePPM Personal Project Management
SunsamacoreBPM Business Project Management
ClickUpcore
SlacksatelliteUtilities
Gmail
Google Calendar
Apple Notes
TodoistcoreThe ICOR Journey
One path. Five courses.
Start with the ICOR Kickstart: four short lessons, about eleven minutes of film. Then one course for each stage of ICOR for Life: your personal productivity system, in the order that makes it stick.
Start here
ICOR Kickstart
4 lessons · the framework, SSOT, one brain, how lessons work
Input
Note-Taking like a Pro
12 lessons
Control
PKM like a Pro
17 lessons
Output
Task Management like a Pro
18 lessons
Refine
Automation like a Pro
9 lessons
ICOR for LifeYour personal productivity system. One course for each stage.
"This is not just some quick course that you can fly through. This is transformative."
Inside a lesson
Watch one idea. Answer honestly. Change one thing this week.
- Conceptthe why and the what
- Workflowthe how, step by step
- Examplea real setup
ICOR Journey › Task Management like a Pro › Lesson 7 of 18
Weekly goals and the highlight of the day
One highlight a day, and time for it.
In real life · four people
Private LifeConsultantProject ManagerBusiness Owner
Sunday evening, fifteen minutes: three weekly goals, then Monday's highlight.
Growth Assignment · question 3 of 5
82% GoodWhen do you decide what today's highlight is?
- I don't pick one. I work down the list. Needs improvement
- In the morning, when I open my laptop. Good progress
- The evening before, from my weekly goals. Best practice
What will you change this week?Pick tomorrow's highlight before I close the laptop.
- 1Watch first. A short film carries one idea. The player remembers where you stopped, on any device.
- 2The Growth Assignment. A few questions about how you work today, each answer explained and scored. It adds up to your quality score.
- 3Keep the Magic Slide. The whole lesson on one page. Then read the chapters, and see it run in real life.
Inner Circle coaching
Every Tuesday. Live.
Bring your real system. Tom and Paco work through members' setups with them, on the spot. No one gets judged. Every session is recorded, with chapters, a summary and the full transcript.
What this session covers
Batching small tasks, routines that hold on a busy week, and the daily scratchpad in practice, worked through on members' own systems.
ChaptersTranscriptQuestions and notes
- 0:02:07What batching really means
- 0:21:40Routines on a busy week
- 0:44:15The daily scratchpad, live
- 1:02:24Three due diligence projects, organised
- 1:18:02Questions from members
Tom R.1:02:24Thank you so much, Mike.
Mike M.1:02:53And the reason… is because of the methodology that underpins everything we do.
Mike M.1:02:39"I'm in the middle of three very large due diligence projects… it's actually really well organized now."
The coaching library
153 sessions and workshops since November 2024. About 360 hours.
Search a tool, a topic or a question and land on the minute someone asked it. Chapters, notes and the transcript are searchable too.
The community
Professionals building a calm, working system. Right now.
Questions, wins and the small insights that make a system click. Members answer members. In the last twelve months, 934 people posted and 1,401 commented.
AllQuestionWinInsightIntroduction
ALShare what you're working on…
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Stephen A.Cafe and restaurant owner
InsightIt's worth spending the time building the system up front, because at some point the frustration turns into delight.
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Weekly poll · every Tuesday
Where does a new idea land first for you?
- A paper notebook
- My phone's notes app
- An email to myself
- Straight into my system
Asked by Holista
Who joins · 740 introductions
Filter the directory by industry, company size, job title and journey stage.
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Keith P.Member since spring
WinI've never been so organized, and feel like I'm really making progress towards a lot of goals.
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- 270wins shared by members
- 2,209posts and 11,347 comments
- Mondaysthe live podcast, open to everyone
Holista · your guide
She knows the ICOR Methodology. And she knows your journey.
Holista presents the lesson films and walks you through the workflows. In the Inner Circle, ask her anything: she answers from everything myICOR teaches, with your journey as context and the sources to go deeper.
And with the myICOR MCP connector, Inner Circle members can let Claude search every lesson and coaching recording.
Leander, myICOR's AI teacher, narrates the video lessons of the ICOR Journey courses and the myPKA System course, in an AI-generated voice. These lessons are built on Tom and Paco's 40 years of combined experience building productivity systems, and on their live coaching every week in the Inner Circle.
I have twenty minutes a day. Where do I start?
Holista AI
Twenty minutes is enough. Here is your first week.
- Days 1–2 The ICOR Kickstart. Four lessons, about eleven minutes of film.
- Day 3 Draw your map in the ICOR Framework.
- Days 4–7 Note-Taking like a Pro, one lesson a day.
Kickstart 01 · The ICOR FrameworkKickstart 04 · How every lesson works
Meet · in the works
ICOR Implementation Journey.
Build Your Own App With AI.
The ICOR Journey teaches the concepts and workflows. This journey is its implementation layer. With Claude Code you build your own capture app, PKM app, task and time management and an AI assistant, one small course at a time. Every lesson ends in an app that runs on your computer.
Coming · no release date yetClaude Code
Build me my own app: a place to capture, notes that link, my tasks and my week.
21 commits · every lesson ends in one
A saved state of your app you can always go back to.
- FoundationsApp Builder Foundations9 lessons · commits 1–2
- InputBuild your capture app4 lessons
- ControlBuild your PKM app4 lessons
- OutputBuild your task management tool3 lessons
- OutputBuild your time management tool4 lessons
- RefineBuild your AI assistant4 lessons
Then add only what you need.
17 module courses plug into the app you built. Mail. Your calendar. A team of AI specialists.
- MailYour own Mail app, live with Gmail
- Calendar in depthTwo ways with Google
- myPKALarry and his team of AI specialists
"I'm partially through the app build and it is very easy to follow. I'm very excited to have my own app with everything I want built into one place."
The Implementation Journey is a mock-up in review, with no release date yet. Available today, from Monthly up: the Build Your Own AI App course.
Why any of this
The point was never a beautiful system.
It's a calmer mind. And work that actually gets done.
Illustrative photography.
What we promise
Calm is a discipline.
- No hype. Real numbers, or none.
- No streak pressure. Small steps, every week.
- No judgement. Bring the messy version.
- No lock-in. The tools change. The methodology stays.
- Not alone. Tom and Paco are live every week.
Tom and Paco
In their words
Something finally clicked.
"I have regained my Peace of Mind… The 'mountain' of unfinished work, that gave me a permanent sense of urgency and stress, is no longer an issue. I know what is important."
"Having this system has enabled me to secure two huge wins for the business."
"Just wanted to say thank you so very much for myICOR because… I'm in the middle of three very large due diligence projects… it's actually really well organized now."
"I found you guys back in April and people have been noticing I get a lot more done now."
"I started on my ICOR journey less than two months ago, and today… I launched a new app across iOS, macOS, Android, Windows and web."
"Today I spent a couple of minutes describing what I wanted… and came back to a completed piece of work that was better than I could have done."
"I've cut a lot of costs across my companies, I finally have real control over areas that used to run away from me."
"I can do all this advanced programming just by talking to it… I can have it do stuff in a matter of seconds that used to take days."
"Now ICOR & Claude help me stay productive and I no longer spend time chasing the next cool thing I saw on YouTube."
"A year ago that would've wrecked me… This time? Barely a blink. Everything I do lives in One Folder."
"It took me four months and hundreds of hours, but I've moved from the PKM system that I started with into something… where I can close the loop finally."
"The last few weeks of using it have been extremely life-changing and business-changing."
"I have a business, and everything is organised in a super simple way!!!"
Membership · prices in USD
Start free. Stay for life.
Begin with the Kickstart and the ICOR Framework at no cost. When it clicks, go all the way.
Monthly
$79/ month
The whole ICOR Journey, month by month.
Go Monthly- Everything in Free
- The whole ICOR Journey and every course
- The library in full
- Post, comment, reply and message members
- Search and the members directory
- Weekly coaching and its recordings
- Live workshops, Holista, the MCP connector
Inner Circle
$997once, for life
Everything, plus Tom and Paco every week.
Join the Inner Circle- Everything in Monthly
- Weekly coaching, live with Tom and Paco
- Every coaching recording, 150+ sessions
- All live workshops and their recordings
- Holista, the ICOR guide that knows your journey
- The myICOR MCP connector, fully unlocked
- One payment. Lifetime access and every update to the platform
The common-sense math
From month 13, Monthly costs more than the Inner Circle. And it never includes the coaching.
Monthly for 24 months costs $899 more, without a single coaching call.
12 months of Monthly: $948. 13 months: $1,027.
Your time, your numbers
$3,900 a year
At these numbers the Inner Circle pays for itself in about 14 weeks.
An example you set yourself, not a promise. Members describe the time they get back in the quotes above.
"It isn't cheap for normal people. But if you're looking at it from a business perspective, it's nothing and the value from this is huge…"
MMMike M. · business owner, Inner Circle coaching
For comparison, an example: at $150 an hour, ten hours of one-to-one coaching cost $1,500. A year of Tuesdays is 52 live calls of about two hours, plus 360 hours already recorded.
Prices in USD. The Inner Circle is one payment of $997 on myicor.com. There is no paid trial: the free plan is the way in.
Questions
Asked before joining.
Who is myICOR for?
Professionals with too much on their plate: founders, executives, consultants, team leads and project managers, plus many who simply want their life in order. Of 740 members who introduced themselves, 242 are CEOs or founders and 109 are freelancers or consultants.
I have almost no time. Will this work for me?
That is who it was built for. Lessons are short films with one idea each, and the ICOR Kickstart is four lessons, about eleven minutes of film. Small steps, every week.
Which tools do I need?
The ones you already have. The ICOR Methodology is tool-agnostic: members run it with Obsidian, Notion, Todoist, Sunsama, ClickUp, Claude and many others. The tools change. The methodology stays.
Is there a free trial?
There is a free plan instead. It includes the Kickstart, preview lessons, the ICOR Framework, Tom's Tool Lab and the live podcast. There is no paid trial.
What does "for life" mean in the Inner Circle?
One payment of $997 gives you lifetime access and every update to the platform: the whole ICOR Journey and every course, the weekly coaching with Tom and Paco, every recording, the live workshops, Holista and the full MCP connector.
When is the coaching, and what if I can't make it?
Every Tuesday, live with Tom and Paco. Times show in your own time zone. Every session is recorded with chapters, a summary and a full transcript, so you can watch the part that matters to you.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. The ICOR Journey needs no code at all. For building your own app with AI, Claude Code writes the code with you, and the decisions stay yours.
Can I start Monthly and upgrade later?
Yes. You can move up to the Inner Circle whenever you are ready.
Is the Implementation Journey available?
Not yet. It is in the works and has no release date. Today, Monthly and Inner Circle members can take the Build Your Own AI App course in the library.