The day does not end. It just stops.
Without a deliberate ending, an ADHD evening tends to end by drift: the list still open somewhere, a vague sense of everything unfinished, and an accounting you do in your head at 1am that is far harsher than the facts deserve. The tasks that moved become things you failed to do. The hours you actually worked vanish, because nobody wrote them down.
Three numbers, drawn the same size.
1 done
1 done
A recap is one small edit away from a verdict.
Almost every end-of-day screen ever built eventually grows a judgement. Colour the completed number green and the moved number red, and you have made one of them a failure. Add "you usually do more" and you have made the user compete with a better version of themselves who is not available today.
So the review holds a specific line: it describes, and it does not evaluate. The three numbers share a size and a weight. Nothing is coloured as a warning. There is no comparison to yesterday, because yesterday's numbers were not kept. The tasks that moved are listed with their times, not tallied as a deficit, and the word for what happened to them is "moved," which is what it is. What remains after all that is a genuinely quiet screen: this is where the day got to, this is what tomorrow looks like, goodnight. For a brain that will happily run a hostile review of the day on its own at midnight, having a calm and factual one already done is worth more than any chart.
This is not a journalling habit, and it is not a nightly obligation. There is no prompt to answer, no streak of entries, and no empty state that shames you for the evenings you skipped it. The whole screen is optional, reached from a card you can ignore, and it takes about fifteen seconds when you do use it. The reflection line is there for the days you want to keep something. The rest of the time its job is simply to let you put the day down.
The other end of the same day.
The review closes the day. These are the parts that carry you through it.
What you did, counted kindly.
Starting counts, not just finishing. Resets at midnight, and past days are never stored.
Nothing to break.
Why Beginary refuses to keep a counter, and what the app says instead when you come back after a gap.
A gentle return.
For the minutes after a task slips past its time, so fewer things reach the evening still untouched.
The Day End Review, in plain answers.
What is the Day End Review?
A short evening screen that closes the day. It shows three neutral numbers (what you completed, what moved to tomorrow, how long you were focused), offers one optional line of reflection, and previews tomorrow's plan. It ends with a button that says "Close the day" and a note that there will be no reminders tonight.
Does it score my day?
No. The screen says so in its own words: "No streak to keep. No score. Just a quiet handoff to tomorrow." The three numbers are drawn the same size and weight, so none of them is the one you were supposed to hit. Tasks that moved to tomorrow sit beside the ones you completed as a plain fact about where things are, not as a count of what you failed to do.
How do I open it?
From the card that appears on Today when the day's list is clear. It reads "Your day, settled," tells you what was planned and what is done, and carries a "Close the day" button. It is an offer, not an interruption: nothing pushes the review at you, and skipping it costs nothing.
Where does the reflection line go?
Nowhere. It is stored locally on your phone, keyed to that date, and it is never synced to our servers, never sent to the AI, and never visible to a coach. It has no place in the database at all. Under it the screen says "Skip is also a fine answer," which is the honest instruction: the field is there on the evenings you want it and costs nothing on the evenings you do not.
What does the Focused number mean?
The time you actually spent inside a task in Beginary today, counted a minute at a time while a session is running. It is not an estimate and not a goal. On a day with two long sessions it might read 2h 14m; on a scattered day it might read 8m. Both are just descriptions of the day that happened.
What happens to tasks I did not finish?
They move to tomorrow, and the review shows them in the Tomorrow list with the note "Moved from today" so nothing quietly disappears. There is no penalty and no language about slipping or falling behind. Moving a task forward is how a day ends most of the time, and the screen is written for that case rather than for the rare perfect day.
Put the day down.
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