Habits, observations and “Pulse”

Three ways to mark your day, with one idea in common: noticing matters more than scoring.

Why it matters

Habits, Observations and Pulse help you notice what happens in everyday life, outside the app. There are no scores or right results here — just quick daily marks you can look back on a week or a month later.

A mark belongs to the day it happened, so you can’t add one retroactively. That’s the point: memory reshapes the past based on how you feel today, while a mark made on the day itself doesn’t. Over time, your history can reveal things that are hard to reconstruct from memory — what you do consistently, what keeps coming up, and how your state shifts.

Habits

A habit is something that depends on you alone, not on an occasion or on circumstances: keeping your voice down, walking for half an hour, not scrolling before bed.

A habit grows week by week, and each week you set a goal for it: on how many days out of seven to do it. For example, “Walk for half an hour” on three days this week. You can set up to five goals at a time, choosing habits from the list or adding your own.

During the week, simply mark the days when you did it. There’s one mark per day, with no percentages or partial credit: not “80% done”, just “yes, today”.

A day is marked by holding. Put a finger on the habit and hold: an arc runs round the circle, and when it closes the day is marked. Let go earlier and the arc runs back — there is no half mark. Taking the mark off is the same movement. A quick tap doesn’t count: a habit touched in passing says nothing.

You can only mark today — and you can only change today’s mark. Once the goal is reached, no more days are added to it.

At the end of the week, you can see how many days you marked for each habit and which goals were reached.

You can make the habit list your own: rename the suggested habits, remove the ones you don’t need, or create your own.

Observations

An observation isn’t something you need to accomplish. It’s simply something you want to keep an eye on — an argument over something small, a conversation you keep putting off, or an extra hour on your phone.

When it happens, mark the day: tap the row — a tick appears in the circle on the left, and today fills in on the bar under the name. Tap again to take the mark off. A single mark may not tell you much, but after a few weeks you can start to see what keeps coming up and how often.

There’s no target to hit and no result to achieve. Observations are simply a way to notice patterns.

Pulse

In Pulse, you check in on two things once a day: Drive — how much you felt like taking action — and Follow-through — how much you actually got done.

They’re separate because drive and results don’t always line up. Some days you have plenty of energy but get very little done. Other days you don’t feel like starting at all, yet still end up having a productive day.

Looking at both scales together over time helps you see how the relationship between Drive and Follow-through changes.

You don’t have to check in every day. If there’s no entry, the day stays blank and isn’t included in your averages. A blank day isn’t the same as a zero.

What you’ll see over time

Weekly summary, at the bottom of the habits screen, gives a summary of the last 15 completed weeks: how many goals were set and how many of them were reached. A goal is how many days in a week to do a habit. A goal ended partway through the week still counts — the week is preserved as it actually happened.

Observation summary, at the bottom of the observations screen, shows the last 30 days: the days you marked and how often each observation was marked.

Pulse shows your last 30 days: average Drive and Follow-through, how they changed compared with the previous 30 days, and how many days you checked in.