How this works

Bethany turns yesterday's intentions into today's checklist, and today's reflection into tomorrow's goals. Most of it explains itself. This page covers the parts that don't — the rules about what can be changed, what can't, and why.

The daily loop

Each day has three parts. Due today lists the goals you set on previous days. Today is where you write what you did and what could improve. Tomorrow is where you set what comes next.

The link between them is the point. When you write something in what could improve, a button appears offering to turn it into tomorrow's goal. It fills in the box but leaves the wording to you, because a reflection and a goal are different things — "left the hardest task until after lunch" is an observation, while "start the hardest task before opening email" is something you can actually do.

Day one will feel thin. There's nothing due yet and nothing to look back on. Day two is when it starts working, because that's when yesterday's words show up as today's list.

Why goals can't be edited

Once you write a goal, its wording is fixed. You can mark how it turned out, but you can't change what it said.

This is deliberate. A record you can quietly rewrite isn't a record — if goals could be softened after the fact, the honest ones would slowly disappear. If you mistype one, you can remove it entirely within five minutes of writing it. After that it stays.

Did it, Didn't, Let go

Every goal ends in one of three ways, and none of them is the wrong answer.

Did it

You did the thing.

Didn't

You meant to and didn't. You'll be asked what got in the way, and offered a date to try again — both optional. This is the only outcome that counts against your completion rate.

Let go

You looked at it and decided against it. That's a real decision, not a failure, so it doesn't count against anything. Use it when the goal stopped making sense rather than when you simply didn't get to it.

Nothing is marked for you. A goal you never resolve stays open and keeps appearing until you say what happened to it. The app won't decide on your behalf while you're asleep.

Why goals stop at seven days

A new goal can be set for tomorrow, or any day up to a week out. Not further.

One tap always means tomorrow, because that's the honest default. The other six days exist for the moment after you've said a goal didn't happen and been asked when you'll retry — sometimes the truthful answer isn't tomorrow. Beyond a week, this stops being a reflection journal and becomes a to-do list with journaling bolted on.

What sealing does

Sealing a day closes it for good. The writing stays visible in your history, but it can no longer be edited — not by you, not by anything.

You can seal a day yourself when you're finished with it. If you don't, it stays open for the rest of that day and all of the next, then seals on its own. That gives you a night's sleep to add something you forgot, and no more.

This is the one rule worth understanding before you rely on it: there is no undo. If you're unsure whether you're finished, leave it open.

Streaks and the completion rate

The streak counts consecutive days you wrote something and sealed it. It measures showing up, nothing else. A day where you set no goals doesn't break it, and neither does a day where none of them got done.

Today never counts while it's still open, so the streak won't look broken just because it's the middle of the afternoon.

Separately, the completion rate shows how many goals you met out of the ones you settled, over whatever window you choose in settings. Goals you let go, removed, or haven't resolved yet aren't counted either way. Your longest-ever streak is shown next to the current one, because breaking a run doesn't undo the fact that you managed it.

Reminders

You can ask for one email a day at an hour you pick, in your own timezone. It won't arrive if you've already sealed that day. Turn it on, change the hour, or switch it off entirely in settings.

Your writing

Everything you write stays in your account and isn't shared with anyone. Sealed days can't be edited, but that's a rule about editing, not about ownership — if you delete your account, all of it is deleted with you. Permanently, including the sealed days.