Manual

What is on this page

• Where your record is kept
• Backups, and getting your record out
• Syncing with Google Drive
• Erase, start over, and clearing your browser
• The free week
• Subscribing, and cancelling
• Fixing something tracked wrongly
• When entries contradict each other
• Lifestyle profiles
• Mine: profiles of your own
• Creating a plan with your own AI
• AI agents in your browser
• Being guided through the day
• The children's profiles
• Where the numbers come from
• Installing, and working offline
• Keyboard shortcuts

Where your record is kept

Everything you record is kept by your own browser, on the device you recorded it on. There is no Daily Momentum account and no server of ours that holds your record — the only copy anywhere else is the one you choose to make: a backup file, the optional sync to your own Google Drive, or what you let an AI assistant in your browser read. That is the promise, and it is also the risk, so the risk is worth stating plainly.

• If you clear this site's data in your browser, this device's record is gone. There is nothing of ours to restore it from, because we never had it.
• A private or incognito window keeps nothing after you close it. Some browsers also clear stored data on their own when a site has not been opened for a long time.
• Another browser, another profile, or another device is a different record, and nothing moves between them by itself unless you switch on sync. A backup is how you carry your record across. Two tabs or windows of the same browser are one record: a change made in one appears in the other.

The privacy notice is the full version of what is stored and what leaves the device.

Backups, and getting your record out

Exporting is in Settings, under "Backup and export". A backup file is the only copy that exists outside your browser, so one is worth having before anything you are unsure about — and it can keep one current by itself.

• Choose a backup file makes the export automatic: you pick one file, once, anywhere on this device, and every change is written into it from then on. It is the same file an export makes, so it restores the same way, through Import. Keep it in a folder your own cloud service synchronises and that service carries it off the device — the app only ever writes to the file you chose. Give each device its own file: two devices writing one file overwrite each other's copy.
• Export a backup writes one file holding the whole of your record: every entry, the activities and categories needed to read them, your reflections and answers, your settings, the lifestyle profile you are living, the personal profiles you have made and the ones you follow, when your free week began, and your receipt reference if you have one. It also carries a note of the entries you deleted — that they went, never what they were — so that merging one record into another does not bring your deletions back with it. It is the file to restore from.
• Export as a spreadsheet writes your entries as rows, one per entry, with a duration column already worked out. It is for reading elsewhere. It is not a backup — it does not carry your settings or your activities, and it cannot be restored from.
• Restore from a backup shows you what is in the file before it does anything, and then offers two ways to take it: Merge, keep both or Replace everything. Either one offers Undo on the message that follows it.
• Merging joins the file to what this device already holds, and nothing recorded here is lost. Where the same entry is in both, the version edited later is kept. An entry you deleted stays deleted, whichever side you deleted it on — unless you edited it afterwards, which is you overruling your own decision. A day's reflection merges answer by answer, so a morning answer typed on your phone survives an evening one written on your laptop. An activity running on this device is never displaced by the file, because restoring a backup must not change what you are doing at this moment. Your settings and the lifestyle profile you are living are this device's and stay as they are; your free week keeps the earlier of the two start dates, and a receipt on either side is kept.
• Before you choose, merging says what it would change, under "What merging would change": every entry that lost to a newer version, everything that stays deleted, and anything the joined record would leave contradicting itself. "Later" is judged by the clocks of the devices that made the changes, and two clocks disagree, so nothing is ever dropped quietly — every entry that lost is named in that list.
• Merging cannot undo a deletion it was never told about. "Erase everything" removes your entries without keeping a note of what it removed, so merging a backup made before you erased brings that history back. If that is not what you want, Replace is the way to take the file.
• Replacing swaps everything currently recorded for what is in the file — entries, reflections and settings alike. It is the right choice when the file is the record you want and this device's is not.

Not every browser can keep a chosen file current — Safari and Firefox cannot today, and Settings says so rather than offering a button that would not work. If the browser wants the permission again after a while, Settings shows a Resume button, and the file catches up as soon as you allow it.

A backup made by an older version is brought up to date as it is read, and the app says so. A backup made by a newer version is refused rather than half-read: update the app first, so nothing it does not understand is dropped. Individual entries that cannot be read are skipped and listed, and everything else still loads — three bad rows do not cost you nine hundred good ones.

A backup also carries your licence and the date your free week began, which is what makes it the honest way to move to a new device.

Syncing with Google Drive

Optional, and off until you turn it on: from Settings, the app can keep a scrambled copy of your record in your own Google Drive, so your devices share one record. There is still no Daily Momentum account — the sign-in is with Google, the copy sits in your Google account, and your record never passes through us. The one thing of ours in the picture is a small sign-in service that keeps you connected from one day to the next, and it never receives your record. The privacy notice carries the whole promise; this section is how it behaves.

• Connecting is one tap. It opens Google's own window over the app — nothing behind it reloads, and a running activity keeps running — where you grant exactly one permission: the app's own hidden space in your Drive. The app cannot see anything else there. Connecting once is meant to last: the app stays connected from one day to the next without asking again, and Google's window appears only when you press Connect or Reconnect. If your Drive already holds a record, you are shown what merging it here would change — including anything another device deleted — before anything happens, because that first merge cannot be undone.
• If Daily Momentum's sign-in service cannot be reached when you connect, the app says so and connects straight with Google instead: two taps, the first to get Google's window ready and the second to open it. Nothing else changes, and your record is exactly where it was.
• The six-character code under the sync status is the same on every device sharing your record. If two devices show different codes, they are not sharing one copy — most often because they are signed in to different Google accounts. Reading the codes out loud is the quickest way to see it.
• What syncs, and what does not. Your entries, reflections, activities, lifestyle profile and deletions travel — including the activity running right now, so starting something on one device shows it running on the others, and ending it anywhere ends it everywhere. Only one activity runs at a time, across all of them: starting something new on any device ends the previous activity at that moment, exactly as switching does on one screen. The lifestyle profile follows the same rule — every device lives the most recently started run, and finishing it anywhere finishes it everywhere. Each device keeps its own appearance, language and other settings (a brand-new device adopts them once, from the synced copy). Where two devices changed the same entry, the later edit wins, with every such case listed under "What the last sync changed". A small overlap born of the sync itself — Stop pressed on one device moments after Start was pressed on the other — is tidied automatically, the earlier entry ending where the later one begins; anything past three minutes is listed under Timeline problems. That page can resolve the overlaps for you, by the same switching rule — the earlier entry ends where the next began, and resumes once that one is over, though a leftover under a minute is dropped rather than kept as a sliver — shown as a list of changes first, applied only when you confirm, and undoable after. Entries that started at the very same moment stay yours to decide.
• It keeps itself in step. Once connected, there is nothing to operate: changes are sent moments after you make them, the app checks for the other devices' changes about every half minute while it is open and again whenever you return to it, and "Sync now" is there if you would rather not wait. A small mark at the top of the screen says how the copy is doing — a tick when it is up to date, a turning arrow while changes are going up, a circle when you are offline — and it stays grey, because none of that is news. Tapping the mark opens Settings, where the longer sentence lives. If the connection to Google needs renewing, the mark turns amber and gains one word, Reconnect. Nothing else changes: tracking carries on, everything recorded in the meantime is kept, and Google's window opens only when you press that word — never on its own. If a sync goes wrong some other way, the mark turns amber with an exclamation mark and, tapped, takes you to the sentence explaining it.
• The name, email address and picture under the sync status are the Google account this device is signed in to, so you can see at a glance if it is the wrong one. The name and address are kept on this device and shown only to you; the picture is loaded from Google each time Settings is open.
• Erase everything reaches the copy. Erasing (or starting over) on a synced device also deletes the copy in your Drive and switches syncing off, so an old copy cannot quietly bring back what you erased. Your other devices keep what is on them — there is no way from here to reach into a device you are not holding.
• Stopping is one tap, and it says what it keeps: your record stays on this device, and the copy stays in your Drive until you delete it — with "Stop syncing and delete the copy", or in Google Drive's own settings under Manage apps. Stopping on one device also asks Google to end the app's access to your account, so your other devices ask you to sign in again before their next sync. If this device is offline when you stop, that message may not reach Google — you can always end the access yourself, on that same Manage apps screen, with "Disconnect from Drive".
• Updating one device pauses the others. A device on a newer version writes a copy the older ones decline to read — a pause, not a loss. The older devices keep tracking, and everything they record reaches the copy the moment they update and sync again.

Erase, start over, and clearing your browser

Three different things remove three different amounts, and only the third one is absolute.

• Erase everything removes your recorded time and your reflections. It keeps your activity buttons, your settings, the profile you are living, your receipt, and the date your free week began. It cannot be undone — the undo history goes with it, so that erasing does not quietly keep a copy of what it erased. That is also why merging a backup made before you erased brings the erased entries back: nothing was kept on this device to say they went.
• Start over does that and hands you back to the first screen to choose a set of activities again. Your palette, theme, text size, reduced motion and simple mode are kept. The rest — the first day of the week, the unnamed-period threshold, the question about how an activity went, and the weight each category carries — goes back to its default, because a weight you changed months ago should not go on scoring days you are starting fresh.
• Clearing this site's data in your browser removes all of it, including your activities, your settings and your receipt reference. Nothing of ours is kept anywhere, so there is nothing to send back to you. It does not reach a synced copy: if sync is on, the copy in your Google Drive stays until you delete it — with "Stop syncing and delete the copy", or in Drive's settings under Manage apps.

The free week

Seven days, counted from the first thing you tracked rather than from the day you opened the application. Somebody who installs it, looks around and comes back a month later has not spent any of their week.

• The date is written down the first time you track something and does not move afterwards. Deleting your entries, or erasing everything, does not start it again.
• Settings, under "Licence", says where you stand and names the last free day.
• When the week ends, nothing is locked, hidden, limited or deleted. Every screen and every feature keeps working exactly as before, including the profiles that are part of the subscription. The Licence section asks, and that is the whole of the ask.

None of this is enforced, and none of it will be: it is a request rather than a lock, and saying so is more useful than pretending otherwise. There is one small service of ours, and it works the other way round: after a payment it confirms the subscription with Stripe and hands your device a signed note, so somebody who keeps paying is never asked again. It is told a Stripe reference and nothing else — never your record. If it cannot be reached, nothing changes: silence never takes a licence away.

Subscribing, and cancelling

CHF 25 a year. Or CHF 2.50 a month, which comes to CHF 30 over the same year. Prices include VAT. Either renews until you cancel it with Stripe, and it covers this device; to cancel, write to [email protected] — the renewals stop from the next date, and nothing else changes. The price is on the screen before the button, not after it.

• Paying happens on Stripe's own page. Your card details go to Stripe and never to us. What comes back to your device is a receipt reference, kept with your record and shown in Settings under "Licence". It is the only identifier this application has for a payment, so it is the thing to quote if a subscription ever needs sorting out.
• There is no account. This device knows a payment came back once, and — when it can check — whether the subscription still ran the last time it asked. When you cancel, the badge changes once the period you have paid for runs out; nothing else does, because nothing was locked in the first place.
• Another device asks separately — unless you carry the record across: restoring a backup, or syncing, brings the licence with it, and nothing is locked on any device either way.

Fixing something tracked wrongly

Forgetting to switch is normal rather than misuse, so everything recorded can be corrected afterwards. Open Timeline, tap the entry, and edit it.

• You can change which activity it was, move either end, split it in two, merge it with the next entry, or delete it. Every change shows what it will do before it does it, and refuses in plain words when it cannot.
• Moving a boundary moves it for both sides: the neighbour is shortened rather than overlapped, because the moment one activity ended is the moment the next began. An edit that would swallow a neighbour whole is refused rather than deleting it for you.
• Deleting an entry leaves that time unnamed rather than handing it to whichever activity happens to sit beside it. Nothing can be shorter than a minute.
• A period you never tracked shows on Today as unnamed, with "Name this period" beside it. Earlier days are reached with the arrows at the top of Today, and edit the same way.
• There is no stop button because tapping another activity ends the one that was running. To stop without starting anything, use the card at the top of Now.
• Most changes offer Undo on the message that follows them. That history is held while the application is open and is not kept after a reload. If you have it open in two tabs, a change made in one appears in the other, and the tab that did not make the change loses its undo history at that moment — it cannot offer to undo its way back past work the other tab has just done.

When entries contradict each other

Two entries covering the same moment, or an entry that ends before it starts, is not something you can make by tracking or editing: every change is checked as you make it and refused in plain words if it would leave the day contradicting itself. It can still arrive from outside — from restoring or merging a backup, or from data edited by hand.

• When you open the application and something in your record contradicts itself, a message says so, with Review beside it. That opens a list: what each problem is, which entries are involved with their day and their times, and a button that opens the day so you can correct it there.
• Nothing is repaired for you. Which of two overlapping entries is the true one is not something the application can know, and a guess would quietly rewrite a day you lived. It names the contradiction and hands you the day it is on.
• The list is worked out fresh every time you look at it, so it cannot go out of date. Correct the last problem and the page becomes its own all-clear.
• Nothing is blocked or hidden while a contradiction stands. The message comes back the next time you open the application, and while anything is still contradictory the list is also a tap away in Settings, and the day itself says so above its entries — with a note that its list shows the entries trimmed to fit, while each entry's own editor holds the times as recorded.

Mine: profiles of your own

The profiles are a shelf of ways to live, and deliberately not a social network: no likes, no comments, no feed, and nothing you do with them leaves your device. Browse the catalogue on the library page or on the Profiles tab; your own profiles live on that tab too, under Mine, beside the record they belong to. Four things happen there.

• Make it yours copies any official profile into a profile of your own — rename it, rewrite its description, move or add its blocks, paste an https link for its picture. Nothing you change in the copy ever touches the original, and the original never changes your copy. Your profiles live in your record and travel with sync and backups like everything else.
• Follow is a private bookmark, nothing more. Follow as many profiles as you like, official or your own; following never starts anything — only Start, on a profile's own page, does that.
• Share writes one of your profiles into a single file — only what you authored, never your entries or your history — to pass to anyone over any channel. A file someone sends you is added under "Add from a file", checked at the door like everything else. To offer a day for the public shelf on the library page, email your file to [email protected]; we read every submission before it appears, and it carries the name you ask for or none.
• Delete removes one of your own profiles and nothing else: every entry you tracked stays exactly as it is. A profile you are living right now cannot be deleted by accident — finish it first. Deleting also holds across your devices: the deletion syncs, and a copy still sitting on the laptop does not bring the profile back, unless you edit it there after the deletion — in which case the newer edit wins, on purpose.

Creating a plan with your own AI

Under Profiles, Mine, "Create with your AI" turns what you want into a plan written by an AI you already use — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Gemini CLI, or any chat that can read a prompt and write JSON — on your own account, with whatever limits that account has. Daily Momentum has no AI of its own and no key to anyone's; nothing is sent by the app, and nothing is billed. The AI writes; the app checks what it wrote against what you asked for, shows you every day of it, and keeps it only when you say so. It works like this.

1. Say what you want. A goal to work toward day by day — an exam, an interview, a deadline — or a daily routine. Your first day and, for a goal, the date it is for or how many days; when you can work on it, one window per weekday; the fixed commitments the plan has to work around; days off. Behind "More detail": where you are now, what matters most, how you like to work, and anything else. Only what you type is shared. Your entries, your history and your other profiles are never included.
2. Give it to the AI. The app writes one prompt from your answers — you can read the whole of it before it goes anywhere — and copies it for you. "Open Claude" (or ChatGPT, or Gemini) is a link to a new chat; you paste the prompt there yourself. The app never sends it, and never says it did. The prompt asks the AI for the plan as a small JSON document with a fixed shape, and tells it the rules: the same rules the app checks.
3. Bring the plan back. Copy the AI's answer — the whole message is fine — and paste it into the box under "Bring the plan back", or choose the file the chat gave you. The app checks it on this device, whatever the AI said about checking it: that it answers your request and not another; that every time is a real time and nothing overlaps; that a goal plan has exactly the days you asked for, with rest on your days off; that every activity falls inside the hours you gave and never over a commitment; and where the clocks change inside the plan. Anything that does not fit is listed with its place in the plan and what would fix it, and "Copy the problems for the AI" gives you that list to paste back into the chat. Things worth a look but not wrong — a long day, a short night, a week without rest — are listed separately. A plan that fits is shown in full, one day at a time on its date, with what the AI says it assumed.
4. Save, then start — separately. "Save as a new profile" keeps the plan under Mine, private, as a profile of your own: edit it like any other, share it as a file, delete it. Nothing starts. To follow it, open it and press Start, exactly as with any profile; whatever you are following now keeps running until you do, and a session in progress is never touched. Saving the same plan twice does not make two profiles.

A request waits on this device — only this device; it does not sync — for a week for its answer, so you can come back to the chat later, and the answer you paste is kept with it. After the week the request is dropped, and "Erase everything" drops it sooner; the plan can still be brought in under "Bring in a plan", and the app shows you the constraints the plan carries and asks you to confirm them before checking, the same as for a plan made on another device. The check says the plan fits what you asked for and can be lived in this app. It does not say it is a good plan: that is the AI's work and your judgement, and the profile carries a note saying so.

Letting the AI check its own plan

Some chats can be given a "connector": a small service they can call while they write. Daily Momentum publishes one, at plan.daily-momentum.com, that does two things and nothing else — hands the AI the plan's exact shape, and checks a draft against your request, returning the same list of problems the app would. With it connected, the AI can catch and fix most of its own mistakes before you see the plan. Without it, nothing is lost: the plan is checked here when you paste it. The service keeps nothing; the privacy notice says exactly what it sees. What each chat can do, as of 13 September 2026:

• Claude (claude.ai, the desktop and mobile apps): on every plan, including Free, which allows one custom connector. Settings, then Connectors, then "Add custom connector"; paste https://plan.daily-momentum.com/mcp as the URL and leave the sign-in fields empty. On a Team or Enterprise plan an owner adds it first.
• ChatGPT: needs developer mode, which is available on paid plans and depends on your account or workspace's policy. Settings, then "Security and login", then turn on developer mode; add a connector with the same URL and no authentication. Business workspaces have their admins add it.
• Gemini (gemini.google.com): custom connectors exist only inside "Gemini Spark", for personal accounts in the United States, 18 and over, and we have not verified them, so the app does not offer the connector there. Gemini writes the same plan; the app checks it when you paste it.
• Gemini CLI: add the server to settings.json under mcpServers as { "dailyMomentum": { "httpUrl": "https://plan.daily-momentum.com/mcp" } }, or run gemini mcp add --transport http dailyMomentum https://plan.daily-momentum.com/mcp.

None of these chats can run inside Daily Momentum on your own account, and no chat can be handed a prompt by a website or hand one back: every step that moves text between the app and the chat is yours, by copy and paste or by a file. When a chat documents a way to do better, this page will say so and the app will offer it; until then, "Open" opens a tab and nothing more. An assistant built into your browser is a different thing, and it reaches your record only if you allow it — see AI agents in your browser.

AI agents in your browser

Some browsers are starting to let an AI assistant work inside them, and let a web page offer that assistant a few "tools" of its own. The proposal is called WebMCP. Where your browser supports it, Daily Momentum offers two kinds of tool. Where it does not, nothing happens and nothing changes.

• Public tools, always. On the home page, the Community page and in the app, an assistant can ask what Daily Momentum is and what it costs, search this manual, read the published profiles, and ask how a number is worked out. None of this is about you. The manual search reads this page from this site and sends it nowhere else.
• Your record, only if you allow it. In the app, Settings, Privacy has a switch: "Let AI agents in this browser use my record". It is off until you turn it on, and it appears in a browser that supports WebMCP — and always while it is on, so you can turn it off. With it on, an assistant can see what is running now, your activity buttons, today's totals, the entries of up to seven days at a time from the last four weeks, and which day of a profile you are on — the published profile's name and blocks, but never the name or contents of a profile or plan of your own. Activity and category names go to it as you wrote them. It can also switch activity for you.

A switch made by an assistant is the same switch as a tap, with one difference: it is never treated as correcting a mistaken tap, so it cannot remove an entry you just made. The notice a tap shows appears in the app, with Undo, so you can see that something other than you acted, and take it back — if the app is out of sight you may not see it, and the entry is recorded like one you tapped. It cannot switch to an activity you have archived or one that does not exist. An assistant never sees your notes or what you wrote at the end of a day, and it cannot edit, delete, merge or split an earlier entry, change a category's weight, touch sync or your subscription, or publish anything.

The setting belongs to this browser on this device. It is not part of your record, so it is not in a backup and does not sync; allowing an assistant on your laptop does not allow one on your phone. Clearing this site's data turns it off. Turning it off in Settings takes effect at once, even for an assistant that is already running.

Daily Momentum does not receive any of this. The assistant is whichever one you run in your own browser, and what it does with what it reads, including sending it to the company that provides it, is between you and that company. The privacy notice says the same.

Lifestyle profiles, and goal plans

A profile is a documented day — a monastery's hours, a screen-free family day, a run of digital declutter — written out as timed blocks and lived for a fixed number of days while the application records what actually happened beside it. It shows the plan and your record. It does not mark the attempt.

• Starting one adds the activities the plan uses to your buttons. Buttons you already have are reused, along with their history, and a retired one is brought back rather than duplicated.
• While a run lasts, Now shows the plan's activities and nothing else, with "Show my own activities" underneath to see your full set again. Your own buttons are not changed, moved or removed to do this — the list is filtered, not rewritten — so ending or finishing the run brings all of them back exactly as they were. Asking for your own set lasts until you close the application; opening it again during the run starts from the plan.
• The card on Now says where the plan is at this moment: the block you are in and how much of it is left, then the block after it and the time it begins. Those are the plan's own hours, not a reading of what you tracked, so the card says the same thing whether or not you are keeping to it. Tapping it opens the profile.
• Essentials only reads the same day with only its essential blocks — the shorter version, enough to have lived it. It changes what the plan shows and suggests, not how the days are counted.
• "So far" counts finished days only. Today is never judged, because a day still in progress is short of every block that has not come round yet. A day counts an essential as done once you have tracked half its planned length against it — never less than five minutes, never more than fifteen. So a ten-minute block asks for five minutes and a five-hour work block asks for fifteen. The rule is showing up, not duration.
• If nothing at all has been tracked against the run, it says so rather than showing a column of zeroes, which would report that the application went unused rather than that the days went unlived. One missed day is reported as one day; the only rule the profiles have about it is not to make it two.
• The two questions. Each profile asks one in the morning and one in the evening, on its own clock rather than at a fixed hour. The morning question is open for four hours from the profile's wake time, the evening one for the three hours before its sleep time. Outside those windows nothing is asked, and a question is never required. Answers appear on Today under "What you wrote", beside the question they were answering — including on days from a run that has finished.
• Ending a run stops the plan and nothing else. Your own activity buttons come back in full, and everything you tracked and everything you wrote stay. A run also ends by itself on its last day.
• A day that changes with the weekday. Most profiles repeat one day. One does not — The Elite Professional, whose Saturday is not a workday — and its page shows today's version of the day and says which day that is. A run follows the calendar rather than its own day count, so the Saturday of a run is the Saturday, and each day is counted against its own essentials. Making it yours copies the whole week, and the editor changes the ordinary day only — the days that have a version of their own are copied as they are and stay that way.
• Five profiles are free — three lifestyle days and the two goal plans — along with the three for children. Eleven more are part of the subscription. None of them are locked: every one of them starts, whether or not you have ever paid — asking is the only thing the product ever does about it.

Three of them are also offered on the very first screen. Choosing one there sets your activity buttons to the standard set and opens that profile's page. Nothing has started until you press Start, and you can leave without starting anything.

Profiles are archetypes drawn from publicly documented routines and traditions. They are not medical advice, and the ones involving early waking, fasting or hard training say so before you start.

Goal plans: days that differ

Two profiles in the catalogue are plans rather than days: Exam Preparation and Interview Preparation, fourteen days each toward one exam or one interview. A plan is a profile like any other — the same card, the same Start, the same buttons and timer — whose days differ. Each day has an objective and its own list of planned activities, each with an honest estimate, short guidance, and a “done when” you can check against something you can see.

• Before you start. The profile’s page shows the whole sequence: choose a day to read its activities. Start asks for the goal in your words, the plan’s details — the exam’s name, the role — the first day, the time of day its activities are planned, and, if you like, the exam or interview date. It says how many days that is, from when to when, and whether the plan ends before the event. If the event is sooner than the plan is long, the run is fitted to the days there are: each plan marks which of its days matter most (a plan of your own with no marks keeps its last days), those are the ones kept, and they stay in the plan’s order. The note under the date says so before you type one, and the sentence above Start says how many of the plan’s days it came to. Only an event on the first day itself or before it, or one that is today or already past, is a conflict; that is said on the sheet, and nothing is blocked — a run started anyway walks the whole plan.
• Each day. Now shows the day’s activities with Start and Done. Start is the ordinary switch — it ends what was running — and the time it tracks is attributed to that planned activity. Done is a mark you make; time never makes it for you, and switching away never makes it either. Both can be undone. A rest day says so. A detail the plan needs and does not have yet — priority topic A, say — is asked for beside the activity that names it, never guessed. A fitted run counts its own days — day two of three — and while it is on, the profile’s page shows that run’s days rather than the whole plan.
• Missed days. Unfinished activities stay under their own day; today never doubles. Now shows how many there are, and the link opens that day on the profile’s page, where they can be started or marked done.
• Yours to change. “Make it yours” copies the plan; the editor lists its days — add, rename, move, duplicate, remove — and each day’s activities. The copy keeps which days matter most, so it fits the same way; the editor does not show those marks, and a day you add or duplicate carries none, so a fitted run drops it first. A run reads its plan as it stands, so editing a plan a run is following changes the days that run walks. A personal profile of your own can be turned into a plan the same way. Completing the plan and passing the exam are different facts; the app records only the first.

Being guided through the day

A profile is a day of timed blocks, and a timed day is little use if you have to keep looking at the screen to know where it is. So starting a run offers a switch, "Guide me through the day". It is off unless you turn it on, and it applies to that run only.

• The bell. When one block gives way to the next, the application rings a bell loud enough to carry to the next room, reads out a sentence naming the next activity in the device's own voice, vibrates where the phone can, and asks on screen whether to switch now or stay a little longer. It rings again each minute, for five minutes, until you choose. The choice is always yours; the reminder does not let itself be missed. The bell plays at your phone’s media volume — on an iPhone it rings even with the silent switch on, the way a podcast would — and “Ring the bell now” on the profile’s page lets you hear it and set the volume before you rely on it. Each part — the bell, the voice, the vibration — has its own switch under Settings, Guided days, and so does “Switch by itself”: off unless you choose it, it makes the change to the next planned activity without asking, rings all the same, and offers the way back. Browsers will not let a page make a sound until you have tapped or typed on it, so a change that falls before your first tap rings on screen and in the hand but not in the ear.
• Notifications. If you also allow notifications, the same change arrives as a notification while the application is in the background instead of on screen. The notification is written by the application on your own device. There is no server, nothing is sent anywhere, and nothing can arrive from us. Your browser asks for the permission once, straight after you start a guided run. Saying no costs you the notifications and nothing else, because the chime does not need permission.
• A closed application cannot ring. If you have quit it, or closed the tab, nothing sounds and nothing arrives — there is no server to wake it. Some phones also stop a backgrounded page from running at all, and a notification is not posted while it is stopped. A locked phone is the same: its clock stops for the page. So while a guided run is on and the application is on screen, it keeps the screen awake (“Keep the screen on” under Settings, Guided days) — that is what lets the bell ring on time with the phone lying beside you. This is the honest limit of guiding a day with no account, and it is the same trade as your record staying on your device unless you choose to sync it.
• On an iPhone or iPad, notifications work only once you have added Daily Momentum to the home screen and opened it from there. In the browser it will chime while it is on screen and do nothing else.
• It rings for a change it was there for. Opening the application part-way through a block does not ring for a boundary that passed while it was closed — unless that boundary is less than ten minutes old, in which case you have just picked the phone up and the change is still yours to make, so it rings now — and starting a run does not ring for the block already under way.
• Changing your mind is the same switch on the profile’s own page, any time during the run — alongside the essentials-only switch. There is no setting for it elsewhere.

The card on Now showing the current and next block is there for every run, guided or not. The switch adds the sound, not the plan.

The children's profiles

These are set up by a parent or guardian on the grown-up's own device, and the switch before starting is the grown-up saying so. There is no account, so that switch is the only check there is. It confirms nothing and verifies nobody; it is there so that the line above it has been read.

• A children's day asks nothing of a child's body or plate by rule: no fasting, no cold water, no pre-dawn waking, no training loads, and nothing cut out of their eating.
• Their two questions stay on the surface of the day — what was played, noticed or enjoyed — and never ask about mood, worries or health. Answers are stored, and a child's disclosure is not a thing to invite into a text field.
• The sleep and activity figures are typical ranges for an age, not a prescription. They are general suggestions for parents rather than advice about your child; a child with a health condition or a dietary need should be discussed with their doctor first.

Where the numbers come from

Nothing on the screen is a number you did not cause. These are the rules behind the ones the application works out for itself.

• The day. Today is measured from midnight up to this moment, not to the end of the day — otherwise opening the app at ten in the morning would report fourteen missing hours that have not happened yet. On your very first day it starts at the first thing you recorded, for the same reason. Time you did not name stays visible as unnamed. It is never guessed at.
• Durations are never stored. Every one of them is the end minus the start, worked out when it is shown, so correcting a time corrects every total that used it.
• The productivity figure is the share of your awake hours that weighed as productive. Sleep is taken out of the denominator rather than counted as zero, so a well-rested day does not read as an idle one. Rest and family time weigh nothing either way; only time you yourself labelled as distracted is negative, and only mildly. The screen shows its own working — each category, its hours, its weight and what it contributed — and the rows add up to the number. Those weights are defaults rather than judgements: you can change any of them on the Activities screen, and the score follows.
• Momentum compares your last seven days with the seven before them, across several signals. It is deliberately not a streak: a quiet Tuesday moves it slightly and cannot zero anything, and by the following week it has left the window on its own.
• The bank adds up each recent week's net weighted hours, discounting older weeks by a tenth per week and looking back twelve weeks. That is what makes it mean the effort behind you lately rather than everything you have ever done — and it is why a bad fortnight fades instead of being subtracted forever.
• The order of your buttons is how often you have tapped each activity in the last three weeks, weighted towards the ones you usually do around this hour. While a lifestyle profile is running, Now lists only that profile's activities, and they stay at the front of your own set behind "Show my own activities".

Installing, and working offline

There is nothing to install for the application to work — it runs in the browser as it is. Adding it to your home screen, from your browser's own menu, makes it open full screen like any other application. Nothing is downloaded from a store. The one permission this application ever asks for is notifications, and only if you start a lifestyle profile with guiding switched on.

• On some systems a copy added to the home screen keeps its own storage, separate from the browser you added it from, and your existing record will not appear in it. If that happens, export a backup from the one that has your record and restore it in the other.
• Everything works with no network: opening, tracking, editing, the week, the insights, and this page. That is not a fallback mode — it is how the whole thing is built.
• A new version is fetched quietly in the background, and then the app offers you a reload. Nothing is downloaded when you accept: the new version is already on the device, and the reload is only what starts it. The app looks whenever it is opened or brought back to the front, and once an hour while it stays open. If you want to be sure, Settings › About has “Check for updates”, which answers on the spot. Reloading works without a network too, for the same reason.

Two things involve another company's server — a count of which screen was opened, and Stripe if you subscribe. Both are described in the privacy notice.

Keyboard shortcuts

At a desk, the keys 1 to 6 switch to the first six activities in the order Now shows them, S opens the switcher, N, T and P go to Now, Timeline and Progress, and W and I open the week and the patterns. Escape closes a sheet. The keys pause while you are typing in a field and while a sheet is open, and a key held with Ctrl, Alt or Shift is left to the browser.

When this page changes

If anything here stops being true — if something is ever blocked after the free week, or the record ever leaves the device — this page changes on the same day, and it will say so plainly rather than describing the new arrangement as an improvement. It describes Daily Momentum as of 25 September 2026.

The free period was thirty days until 7 September 2026. It is seven days now. A trial that had already begun before that date keeps its thirty days: the app reads the day you started and counts the length you were promised then. Nothing was locked, nothing was taken away, and your record is exactly where it was.