Design your happiness today
We've spent over a decade studying happiness as a design problem. Omniana is what happens when that research becomes a tool: a personal operating system for understanding the people, systems, and things that shape your life, and making better decisions about all of them.
For over a decade, Masamichi Souzou has been working on a single question: what would it look like to take happiness seriously as a design problem?
Not happiness as a mood. Happiness as something you can study, measure, map, and (with the right tools and the right thinking) actually improve.
We've built frameworks. We've run courses. We've worked with individuals and organisations. And through all of that work, one thing kept coming up: people understood the ideas, but they didn't have a place to practice them. A daily environment where the principles of happiness design could meet the real, messy complexity of an actual life.
So we built one.
Omniana is a personal operating system. A single place to understand and manage the people, systems, and things that make up your life, oriented around what actually matters: your happiness.
It's grounded in happiness research and systems thinking. It helps you see your life clearly and make better decisions about how you spend your time, energy, and attention. We've been calling it a LifeOS, which is the closest shorthand we've found.
At its core, Omniana has 4 capabilities:
A happiness journal that learns. Record your happiness daily, tag the activities and contexts that shaped it, and over time Omniana surfaces the patterns. What actually makes you happy, not what you assume does. Those two things are, in our experience, surprisingly different.
A relationship builder. The research here is unambiguous: relationships are the single strongest predictor of happiness. Omniana helps you stay connected to the people who matter, with gentle nudges when you've been out of touch and tools to see the health of your social world at a glance.
A system manager. Your life runs on systems: subscriptions, services, accounts, commitments. Most people have no clear picture of this infrastructure. Omniana maps it, so you can see what's actually supporting your life and what's just adding noise.
An inventory with intent. Track the things you own, how often you use them, and what they contribute to your happiness. We call it Return on Happiness (a way to understand whether the physical stuff in your life is earning its keep).
We've spent years developing the Happiness Design Framework, the methodology behind everything Masamichi Souzou does. Omniana is that framework stripped back to a daily practice. The companion to the bigger ideas: Consider Everything, Universal Responsibility, and the belief that the ultimate design intent is happiness.
If you've taken our courses, explored our thinking, or simply believe that a well-designed life is possible, Omniana is where that belief becomes something you can do every day.
Omniana is available now. Sign up, record your first happiness entry, and start seeing your life through a different lens.
Omniana is built by J. Paul Neeley and the team behind Masamichi Souzou. It's the product expression of everything we've learned about designing happiness.
