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Teach live, host your own class.Teach live, and give every student one next thing.

Set problems, watch answers arrive, and keep rosters, keys and courses on a server that runs on your own computer.Set problems from keepinstruct and each student sees them as sized, dated cards with one at the top. For students who lose track of time and tasks, the structure is on the screen instead of in their heads; the server still runs on your own computer.

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  • keeptrack
  • keepcourses
  • keepinstruct
  • keepsetup-instruct
  • keeptraining
  • keepconverting
  • keeplaunch

What you get

Made for teachers.

Teach live

Drop problems on your students from keepinstruct and watch their answers arrive. Problem sets, quizzes, groups, announcements and class chat live in the same window.

Your own class server

It runs on your computer. Students sign in from theirs, and install and update the apps from the copy you publish, without a GitHub account.

Codes, keys and approvals in one place

keepsetup-instruct holds your students' one-time setup codes, the class keys for your classes, and whoever is waiting for you to approve them.

Courses as folders

A course is a folder. keepcourses keeps syllabi, readings, assignments and progress together, and keepconverting turns Markdown into PDF or Word.

ADHD and these apps

Built around what the research says helps.

Every feature below is in the apps today. Each carries a number that links to the study behind it, listed in full under works cited at the foot of the page.

Size, due date and progress on every card

Barkley's account of ADHD puts working memory and the sense of time at the centre: holding a plan in your head and feeling how far away a deadline is are the hard parts. His practical conclusion is to put that information outside the head, where it can be seen. keeptrack does exactly that: each assignment is a card with its size (ω), its due date and a progress slider you can see at a glance. [1]

One card at the top

The dashboard sorts by urgency, so there is always one card to start on. Deciding in advance what you will do next is what the research calls an implementation intention, and a meta-analysis of 94 studies found it has a medium-to-large effect on actually following through (d = 0.65). A later experiment found the same if-then planning improved response inhibition in children with ADHD. [2] [3]

Progress you move, and a score that moves with it

Monitoring progress toward a goal makes reaching it more likely, and more so when the progress is recorded somewhere rather than only noticed, according to a meta-analysis of 138 studies. The slider on each card is that record; the σ score and the late toast are the feedback. [4]

Time estimates in work, not in hours

People underestimate how long their own tasks will take, the planning fallacy, and adults with ADHD reproduce and estimate time intervals less accurately than controls. keeptrack asks for a size in ω instead of a guess in hours, then shows urgency as work left against time left, so being behind pace is visible before the deadline is. [5] [6]

Work broken into sets, kept on the screen

Working memory is one of the most consistent differences found in ADHD across a meta-analysis of 26 studies. keepcourses keeps each course's readings, problem sets and progress in one folder, keepinstruct hands out problems one set at a time, and the editor keeps the file and the card side by side, so less has to be held in mind. [7]

Reminders that cost something

Each time keeptrack opens, every past-due, unfinished assignment costs a little score and a toast says which one. That is a reminder tied to a consequence, at the moment you can act on it; Barkley's work argues that for ADHD, cues and consequences work best at the point of performance, not in a lecture beforehand. [1]

These apps are a study aid. They do not diagnose or treat ADHD or anything else, and the studies above are about planning, memory and time, not about these apps.

How the score works

Two symbols, no secrets.

keeptrack measures work in ω and rewards it in σ. Every number on the dashboard comes from these rules and nothing else.

ω total work
How big an assignment is. You set it when you add the assignment (a weekly problem set might be 4ω).
Progress
A slider from 0 to 100% on each assignment. You move it yourself, or let the local model move it up as it reads your file.
σ score
1σ for every ω completed. Raising a 4ω assignment by 50% is +2σ. Lowering progress takes it back.
Late
Each time keeptrack opens, every past-due, unfinished assignment costs ⌈d⋅ω⌉−1 σ, where d is the days late and ω the work left. A toast lists what cost you.
Urgency
Work left compared with time left. Above 1 means you are behind pace. The dashboard sorts by it, so the top card is the one to work on next.

The apps

Everything keeplaunch can open.

Each app is its own window with its own job. Hover or tap one to read what it does.

  • keeptrack
    keeptrack

    Assignments and deadlines, with progress estimates, urgency and a score. Courses, readings, mail and AI help in one window.

  • keepcourses
    keepcourses

    Every course in one place: syllabi, readings, assignments and progress, plus an optional ADHD homework upgrade that rewrites trivial problems into harder, more engaging ones.

  • keepinstruct
    keepinstruct

    Teach a class: drop problems on your students live and watch their answers arrive.

  • keepsetup-instruct
    keepsetup-instruct

    Your students' setup codes, the class keys for your classes, and who is waiting for you to approve them.

  • keeptraining
    keeptraining

    Practice sessions and drills, quizzes and tests, with stats for the last 14 days.

  • keepconverting
    keepconverting

    Turns a Markdown file into a PDF or a Word document, in MLA format if you want.

  • keeplaunch
    keeplaunch

    The launcher. Every keep app on one grid, each a click away.

Hover or tap a tile to read what it does.

Security

Your class data stays on your own computer.

The class server runs on a computer the host owns, every connection to it is post-quantum encrypted, and the models that estimate your progress run on your own machine.

The four protections, in detail

Post-quantum encryption

Every connection to the class server uses the new post-quantum standards (ML-KEM and ML-DSA, the standardised CRYSTALS-Kyber and Dilithium). A client that can't do it is refused, never downgraded.

Self-hosted

The class server is a program on the host's own computer. Rosters, problem sets, answers and the published copy of the suite stay there.

Local AI

Laya and Gemma run on your own machine. Progress estimates come from the file you are editing, with no call to a cloud model. The optional Ask AI and Sources features can send your question to Claude through a sign-in you make yourself.

Signed keys and one-time codes

Every licence key is signed, so it cannot be forged without the owner's private key. A setup code works once, to choose a password of at least 12 characters; after that the password alone signs you in.

Pricing

A key for you, a class key for your class.

Your own key is sent by the owner after payment, unless your school already gave you one. Keys for your students are class keys sized for the class, requested from the owner at no listed price.

Yearly

$3 an app

$3 an app and $2 a year for the first year, then $2 a year in all, however many apps.

One app for one year is $5. The $2 a year keeps the key server running.

One person, one role.

Buy it

Lifetime

$8 an app

$8 an app, once. No renewal.

One person, one role.

Buy it

Ultimate

$75 once

Every paid keep app there is now and every one added later, for $75.

One person, one role.

Buy it

Bundles and your own plan

Take every app in a bundle and it costs $15 less on a lifetime key and $5 less on a yearly key. Each app counts toward one bundle. keepcli, when it arrives, counts as three apps.

Study
keeptrack, keepcourses, keeptraining
Everyday
keepconverting, keeptrack
Tools
keepgit, keepmonitoring
Teaching
keepinstruct, keepsetup-instruct, keepcourses

Customize your plan Pick the apps you want and see the price before you buy.

Keys by type

Your own key
One person in one role (student, teacher, editor or viewer). Bought at the prices above, or given to you. Works again after a reinstall.
Class key
One class or team and a set number of people, from 1 to 1000. Each request goes to the server that made the key, and the host approves it. No listed price; ask the owner.
Institution key
Single-use. The owner issues these to a school or company, which hands them to its instructors. Not sold here.

“Buy it” opens the owner's Stripe checkout in a new tab; after payment, keepkeys' Stripe sync issues your key and emails it to you. For a bundle or your own pick of apps, use “Customize your plan”: it shows the total and carries your apps to the checkout, and the amount is checked against the same price table.

Get started

Three steps to your first sign-in.

  1. Get a key

    Buy your own key, or use the one your school gives you. Then request class keys for your classes; the owner approves them and they appear in keepsetup-instruct.

    Class key
    Made for one class or team and a set number of people. The host approves each request.
    Your own key
    One person, one role. Bought from the owner (yearly or lifetime; see pricing) or given to you. Works again after a reinstall.
    Institution key
    Single-use, issued by the owner to a school or company for its instructors. Not sold.

  2. Install the apps

    Windows, macOS or Linux. Choose what you want below and the exact command appears; the installer skips whatever is already there.

    No install on a phone or tablet: open the server address shown in keepinstruct's Server panel in your browser (it looks like https://192.168.1.5:8443) and sign in. What the server shares with your role is there; the desktop apps and the local models need an install.

    Already have part of it? tools/install-suite.sh --check lists every step and what is present, without touching the network.

    Fully customizable

    Say what you want in your own words. Which apps, models or not, which class, which machine.

    1. Draft it in the box, then copy it (click in the box, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C).
    2. On your computer, run tools/install-suite.sh --custom. It asks for your description; paste it there.
    3. Fable, running on your own Claude subscription on your own computer, turns it into an install plan: which apps, which steps, which downloads. You confirm the plan before anything is installed.

    No Claude sign-in? The installer offers a checklist instead. What you type here stays in the box and is sent nowhere.

  3. Sign in

    Use your username and the one-time code your host gave you to choose a password of at least 12 characters. From then on, your username and password are all you need.

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Works cited

The studies behind the ADHD notes.

Numbered where they are used above. Each link opens the paper at its publisher.

  1. Barkley, R. A. (1997). Behavioral inhibition, sustained attention, and executive functions: Constructing a unifying theory of ADHD. Psychological Bulletin, 121(1), 65–94. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.121.1.65 ↩
  2. Gollwitzer, P. M., & Sheeran, P. (2006). Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of effects and processes. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 69–119. doi:10.1016/S0065-2601(06)38002-1 ↩
  3. Gawrilow, C., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (2008). Implementation intentions facilitate response inhibition in children with ADHD. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 32(2), 261–280. doi:10.1007/s10608-007-9150-1 ↩
  4. Harkin, B., Webb, T. L., Chang, B. P. I., Prestwich, A., Conner, M., Kellar, I., Benn, Y., & Sheeran, P. (2016). Does monitoring goal progress promote goal attainment? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence. Psychological Bulletin, 142(2), 198–229. doi:10.1037/bul0000025 ↩
  5. Buehler, R., Griffin, D., & Ross, M. (1994). Exploring the “planning fallacy”: Why people underestimate their task completion times. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67(3), 366–381. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.67.3.366 ↩
  6. Barkley, R. A., Murphy, K. R., & Bush, T. (2001). Time perception and reproduction in young adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Neuropsychology, 15(3), 351–360. doi:10.1037/0894-4105.15.3.351 ↩
  7. Martinussen, R., Hayden, J., Hogg-Johnson, S., & Tannock, R. (2005). A meta-analysis of working memory impairments in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 44(4), 377–384. doi:10.1097/01.chi.0000153228.72591.73 ↩