What is on this page
Where your record is kept
Everything you record is kept by your own browser, on the device you recorded it on. There is no account, no server and no copy anywhere else. 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, your 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. Nothing moves between them by itself. A backup is how you carry your record across.
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 "Your data". It is the only backup that exists, so it is worth doing before anything you are unsure about, and worth doing occasionally anyway.
- 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, when your free month began, and your receipt reference if you have one. 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. Restoring replaces everything currently recorded rather than merging with it, because there is no answer to two records of the same Tuesday afternoon that is right often enough to apply quietly. A toast offers Undo immediately afterwards.
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 month began, which is what makes it the honest way to move to a new device.
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 month began. It cannot be undone — the undo history goes with it, so that erasing does not quietly keep a copy of what it erased.
- 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 is kept anywhere else, and nothing can be sent back to you.
The free month
Thirty 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 fortnight later has not spent any of their month.
- 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 month 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.
There is no server, so none of this could be enforced even if it were meant to be. It is a request rather than a lock, and saying so is more useful than pretending otherwise.
Subscribing, and cancelling
CHF 25 a year. It renews each year until you cancel it with Stripe, and it covers this device. 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 that a payment came back once; it cannot know whether the subscription still stands, so nothing on it changes when you cancel — the copy on it was never locked in the first place.
- Another device asks separately, for the same reason. Restoring a backup from this device carries the licence across, and nothing is locked on either device either way.
Fixing something tracked wrongly
Forgetting to switch is normal rather than misuse, so everything recorded can be corrected afterwards. Open Today, 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.
Lifestyle profiles
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 and puts them first while the run lasts. Buttons you already have are reused, along with their history, and a retired one is brought back rather than duplicated. A line under the clock on Now says where the plan would be at this moment, and links to the plan.
- 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 activity buttons, everything you tracked and everything you wrote all stay. A run also ends by itself on its last day.
- Three profiles are free, along with the three for children. Nine more are part of the subscription. None of them are locked: every one of them starts, whether or not you have ever paid, because there is no server that could make it otherwise.
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.
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, its own activities come first.
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 and no permission is asked for.
- 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 offers you a reload. Nothing is downloaded when you accept: the new version is already on the device, and the reload is only what lets it run.
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.
When this page changes
If anything here stops being true — if something is ever blocked after the free month, 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 30 August 2026.