Introduction
Minou is a personal planning app with a marketplace of smaller apps for the parts of life worth keeping track of. This page covers what it is, how the pieces fit together, and where each part is documented.
The apps
Three apps are open today. Each one ships with its own model and its own vocabulary, so none of them is a blank canvas you have to configure.
- Basecamp reads your whole Strava history — not a recent window — and reports what your training is doing: training load, fitness trend, intensity distribution, and how much training volume your body is currently tolerating. It gets more precise as you add lactate threshold tests and body composition. Pick a race and it builds a plan, then rewrites the weeks ahead when a week runs over, under, or missing.
- Finance compares financial independence scenarios side by side, projecting every return rate between your optimistic and pessimistic assumptions rather than committing to one date. You set the return range, the inflation schedule and the withdrawal schedule; every version you try is kept with its assumptions, so a later check-in is a comparison rather than a fresh start.
- Gatherings is a recipe library and the grocery list that comes out of it. Recipes accumulate and get reused; an event groups the ones you are cooking that night; the grocery list combines their quantities across dishes, so you can see which recipes shop well together and what you already have before buying anything.
You switch apps on and off per workspace under Workspace Settings → Apps. An app switched off disappears from the navigation and takes its home-screen widgets with it. Switching one off deletes the data it holds in that workspace, so check what it holds before you confirm.
Workspaces
A workspace is the container for everything you create — activities, goals, plans, scenarios, recipes, events, and the settings each app needs. Every account starts with one, and you can create more to keep separate contexts apart.
Invite people into a workspace when it helps: a partner who cooks from the same recipes, a training partner working toward the same race. Members see the apps that workspace has switched on, and roles control what each member can change. Your own profile settings — units, currency, number format — follow you across every workspace rather than belonging to any one of them.
Your data
Strava is the only external source Minou reads, and it reads only what Basecamp needs: activity metrics, heart-rate zone distribution, best efforts, and route polylines. Minou never modifies, deletes, or posts to your Strava account, and disconnecting stops all future access.
Everything else you enter yourself. Recipes import and export as CSV or JSON, workspace data can be deleted per app, and you can request a full export or account deletion at any time. See Privacy Policy.
Measured and modeled numbers
Some numbers in Minou are recorded — distance, duration, heart rate, elevation. The rest are modeled, and Minou says which is which rather than presenting an estimate as a measurement.
Every model has a method callout on the page where its numbers appear, giving the formula, its inputs, and its limits:
| Model | What it produces | Where it is documented |
|---|---|---|
| Johnston 4-zone model | Z1–Z4 heart-rate boundaries from LT1 and LT2 | Heart Rate Zones |
| bTSS | A per-session training stress score, anchored so 1 hour at threshold equals 100 | Dashboard & Performance |
| CTL, ATL, TSB | Fitness, fatigue, and form as exponentially weighted loads | Dashboard & Performance |
| Training Effect | Aerobic and anaerobic scores on a 0–5 scale | Training Effect |
| Impact Load and Tolerance | Musculoskeletal stress and the weekly load you have adapted to | Running Tolerance |
| Riegel projection | Projected finish time at a target distance | Race Goals |
| FI scenarios | Portfolio balance year by year across a range of return rates | Finance |
These are planning signals. None of them is a diagnosis, a guarantee, or advice.
What Minou does not do
- No bank connections. Finance runs entirely on assumptions you type in, including the portfolio value each projection starts from. Nothing is pulled from an account, and a Net Worth view that would derive today's figure from assets and liabilities is planned but not built.
- No financial advice. Minou models scenarios; it does not tell you what to do with money.
- Nothing medical. Running Tolerance and the aerobic-deficiency check are training signals, not diagnoses, and no part of Minou predicts injury.
- No accuracy guarantee on a projected finish time or a depletion age.
- No feed. There is no social layer, no kudos, and nothing is shared outside your workspace unless you invite someone into it.
Early access
Minou is in early access, and you join by waitlist. It is free at this stage, and it runs in the browser — built for desktop, usable on mobile. If something is broken, Support is the fastest route.
Getting Started
- Getting Started — account creation, initial setup, and navigating the app
- Customize Home — add, remove, reorder, and resize dashboard widgets
- Frequently Asked Questions — Strava, training data, account management, and units
Basecamp
Training analysis built on your Strava history and four physiological models.
- Overview — what Basecamp does and what it needs from you
- Strava Sync — automatic sync, manual sync, and audit behavior
- Basecamp Settings — connections, zones, tests, planning defaults, and data controls
- Heart Rate Zones — the Johnston 4-zone model and device-zone mapping
- Dashboard & Performance — Training Load, Fitness Trend, Running Tolerance, and the other widgets
- Activities & Maps — activity details, splits, zone analysis, and route heatmaps
- Training Effect — classification, scoring, and aerobic deficiency
- Training Analysis — weekly summaries, aerobic efficiency, and periodization compliance
- Training Plan — event setup, preferences, plan overview, and how the phases are laid out
- Readiness Check — the verdict, race-day scenarios, and event-specific checks
- Week Detail — week columns, drag scheduling, and session and week types
- Pace Plan — road splits, trail sections, and cutoff assessment
- Race Goals — goals, projections, best times, and personal records
- Running Tolerance — impact load model, adapted capacity, and load ratio
Finance
Financial independence as scenarios you compare, not one number to believe.
- Finance — FI Scenario Planner parameters, inflation, withdrawals, chart, table, and history
Gatherings
Events, recipes, ingredients, and the grocery list they feed.
- Overview — what Gatherings covers and where each part lives
- Events — create, edit, copy, and manage events and their recipes
- Recipes — create, organize, import, and export recipes
- Ingredients — add, edit, tag, and deduplicate ingredients
- Grocery List — build and use grocery lists from your recipes
- Tags — manage recipe, diet, and ingredient tags
Settings
- Profile — identity, privacy, display formats, and personal units
- Workspace — workspace details, members, access, apps, and ownership
Support
- Support — common issues and how to get in touch
- Privacy Policy — what is collected, how it is used, and your rights