A day, once it has recorded itself
Twenty-four hours, in proportion. No timers were started or stopped — each block is simply the time between one tap and the next.
- Sleep 7h 30m
- Deep Work 3h 30m
- Family 2h 30m
- Meetings 1h 30m
- Distracted 45m
How it works
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Tap what you are doing
A grid of large buttons, usable one-handed and without looking hard at the screen. There is no start button and no stop button, because a tap is both: starting one thing is what ends the last one.
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Forget about it
Nothing is asked of you between taps. If you forget for an afternoon, the gap is offered back to you later as a question rather than left as a hole, and you can name it or leave it unnamed.
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See where it actually went
The day as a single strip, the week against the week before, and patterns drawn from what you recorded. Observations, not advice — nothing here tells you that you should have done otherwise.
The longer version, question by question, is at how it works.
Borrow a documented day
Sixteen lifestyle profiles — documented daily routines you can live for a few days and measure your real time against. Each brings its own activities, a daily plan, and a morning and evening question. Three are free forever.
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The Monk
A day emptied of noise, filled with attention.
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The Artist
Make first, live second.
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The Village Elder
Move all day, eat with attention, see somebody.
The whole catalogue is on the library page — a monastery day in three strictnesses, the documented routines of athletes, scientists and stoics, and three gentle days for children — and every one of them opens in the app, where a copy can become your own.
Your record lives on this device
There is no Daily Momentum account it could be attached to and no server of ours that keeps it. One thing can carry it further, and only on your say-so: optional sync to your own Google Drive. It goes from your device to your own Google account without passing through us, and it is scrambled on the way. What that scrambling does and does not protect you from is written out on the privacy page.
- No Daily Momentum account, no email address, nothing to register.
- The only sign-in anywhere is with Google, for the optional Drive sync — never with us, and off until you turn it on. Turning it on brings in a small sign-in service of ours, which keeps you signed in from one day to the next and never receives your record.
- Your record is kept by your own browser. Export it whenever you like, as a backup file or as a spreadsheet, and it is yours to keep.
- One thing is counted, and this is it: that a page was opened, and which screen it was. By GoatCounter, with no cookie, no advertising, and no identifier that could join two visits into a person. Nothing you record is part of it, and nothing about it is for sale.
- Everything that tracks your day works with no network at all, on a plane or underground. The one part that needs a connection is adding a shared day from the community library — and it is the only part.
The rest of it
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Somebody else's day, for a week
Lifestyle profiles: days built from routines other people wrote down — a forest monastery's, a training camp's, a slow village's — to live inside for a week. Your own record lines up beside the plan. Observations, not marks.
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Yours to name
Start from a set that looks like your days, then rename, reorder, add and retire activities as they change.
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Repairable
Every entry can be moved, split, merged or relabelled afterwards. A record you cannot correct is one you stop trusting.
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Readable
Five palettes, a text size that scales, reduced motion honoured, and contrast checked rather than assumed.
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Installable
Add it to a home screen and it opens like an application, full screen and instantly, with or without a connection.
It takes about a minute to start
One question about the shape of your days, and then you are recording. There is nothing to set up first.
Free for a month, counted from the first thing you track. After that it is CHF 25 a year, or CHF 2.50 a month, renewing until you cancel it with Stripe — and nothing stops working if you decide not to.
What the money is for: browsers and phones change every year, and something that runs entirely on your own device still has to be looked after to keep running on next year's. The subscription is the only thing paying for that — no advertising, and nothing about you to sell.