Self-improvement
The days add up or they do not
Two small tools for the part of the week nobody grades you on. Track the handful of things you want to keep doing, and write down how the day actually went. Free with an account, private to you, and honest about what the numbers mean.
Habit tracker
Up to eight habits, each with its own weekly target, ticked off a day at a time and scored on consistency rather than on a perfect run.
What is different here
The headline number is how many of the last 30 days you kept it, not your streak. Missing one day does not measurably change whether a habit forms, so a tracker that resets you to zero for it is lying to you about your own progress. Habits that are meant to happen four times a week are scored out of four, not out of seven.
Daily diary
One entry a day, with a prompt when the blank page is the problem, and an optional note of how the day went.
What is different here
Private in the way the database enforces rather than the way the marketing claims: no browser has any privilege on the table, so every read goes through a check on your session. Nothing you write is read by a model, scored, or shown to anyone.
How these are built
Consistency over streaks
The evidence on habit formation says a single missed day makes no measurable difference to whether the habit sticks. So the big number here is how many of the last 30 days you kept it. The streak is still there, in smaller type, doing the job it is good at.
Private by construction
Habits and diary entries sit in tables that no browser has any privilege on. Every read runs through a server check on your own session, so the privacy claim is a property of the schema rather than a promise in a policy. No AI reads any of it.
Built for a bad week
Weekly targets instead of pass or fail, a fortnight of backfill for the days you forgot, and a prompt on the diary for when the blank page is the actual problem. A tracker that only works when life is going well gets deleted in the week it was needed.
Questions
If today is heavier than a diary can hold
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