Axon · Personal open-source tool

Know your
mind.

Measure the difference.

A quiet, local-first notebook for organizing your own cognitive self-tracking. Build a trait snapshot, log sessions you choose to run, and inspect deterministic summaries without accounts, servers, analytics, or remote data collection.

Open source under MIT · No account · Your data stays on your device

01 · What it is

A home for your own cognitive notes.

Three things, one local timeline. Your profile gives context to sessions; sessions add evidence to your map.

01·

Your profile

A short battery of published self-report instruments creates a local trait snapshot for your own reflection and longitudinal context.

02·

Your sessions

Record what you chose to do, when you did it, and how you felt afterward. Optional task scores, sleep, stress, and time-of-day stay tied to the same local timeline.

03·

Your map

Three agency dimensions over seven networks, shown as deterministic summaries of your entries. Every readout traces back to the data that produced it.

02 · The thesis

Mental Autonomy.
The capacity for self-directed thought.

A personal working construct for self-reflection: top-down direction over reactive, distracted thinking. It is not a clinical label, diagnosis, or treatment target.

Three self-report subdimensions, displayed alongside published large-scale brain-network concepts. The composite is a descriptive summary of your entries.

  • I.

    Attentional Agency

    Capacity to direct and sustain focus. Resistance to involuntary capture.

  • II.

    Cognitive Agency

    Capacity to direct deliberate thought. Resistance to mind-wandering.

  • III.

    Behavioral Agency

    Capacity for value-directed action. Impulse override under affective load.

03 · Your map

Seven networks. Six connectivity pairs.

Yeo / Menon hybrid framework. Computed deterministically from your local entries — never inferred by an LLM.

01DMN

Default Mode

02FPN

Frontoparietal

03SN

Salience

04DAN

Dorsal Attention

05VAN

Ventral Attention

06LIM

Limbic

07RWD

Reward

04 · How it’s built

Quiet rigor, not noisy claims.

The math underneath is deterministic — within-subject estimates, personal z-scores, moderator summaries. But it stays where it belongs: in the audit trail behind each number, with uncertainty intact.

Wellness languageAn instrument

No horoscope framing. No coaching. Confidence bands on every score.

Brain trainingValidated psychometrics

No transfer claims. Axon doesn't train cognition — it measures it.

LLM oracleDeterministic scoring

Every number traceable. AI is opt-in and never touches the scoring layer.

Clinical labelsSelf-investigation

No diagnostic framing. Your data, your interpretation, your own notes.

Why this exists

A tool I built for myself.

I built Axon for my own use. I wanted one quiet place to log my cognitive self-experiments, keep the psychometric instruments and references I found myself returning to, and look at the results honestly — on my own device, with nobody else watching.

It is a personal notebook and a collection of things I found useful on my own journey — not a product, not a service, and not medical advice. I’m sharing the source, as-is, as free and open-source software under the MIT License, in case it’s useful to you too. If you run it, you run it for yourself, at your own risk. There are no warranties, and nothing here is a recommendation to take, change, or combine any substance.

05 · Begin

Twenty minutes.
A local record you can export, erase, or inspect.

Axon