how it works.
five ideas. that is the whole app — there is nothing hidden behind them.
1 · write one line
you did the thing? write it down. one line, ten seconds, done. it can be a big win or the smallest possible version of showing up — turning up at the gym and doing almost nothing still counts, because you turned up.
2 · write the bad days too
slipped? write that down as well. the app records it in plain grey — no red, no warning, no broken chain, no lecture. it just notes how long you had gone.
this is the important bit: writing down a slip counts exactly the same as writing down a win. both reset the clock. the app is not scoring whether you were good. it is scoring whether you were honest.
3 · threads are the things you care about
gym, reading, smoking, guitar, saving money — whatever you want a record of. each one keeps its own list and its own clock, so you can look at just that one thing and see the whole story of it.
the first time you start a new thread, the app asks one question: when did this last happen? guess roughly, or skip it — it never asks again. that answer is what makes the next bit work.
4 · quiet time gets written down by itself
you do not have to log gaps. the app works them out and puts them in the list. no telling off, no sad face — just the number of days.
and when you come back after a long time away, that gap turns into the best thing in the app: a RESUMED mark that stays in your history for good, saying first commit in 2y 1m. you never have to explain the two years. the number already did.
5 · issues and releases
an issue is a big thing you are fighting — the one that has been going on for years. it shows how old it is and how long you have been clean. closing one is deliberate: you press and hold the button, and it stays in your history forever as something you beat.
a release is a chapter of your life. when one ends, you close it off and name it if you like — the bad year, the restart — and the app writes the summary for you from what you actually logged.
things it will never do
- buzz you, remind you or nag you. it never messages you first.
- give you a score, a grade or a rank.
- show anything to anyone else. there is no feed and no sharing.
- delete or tidy up your history.
- show your words to another person, sell them, or train anything on them.
your entries are scrambled on your phone before any backup leaves it. we do keep the key, attached to your account, so a new phone can get your history back — the privacy page explains exactly what that means.