Most progress screens are built to be lost.
A number that accumulates is a number that can be broken, and the day it breaks is almost never a good day. It is the sick day, the overwhelmed week, the stretch where everything is already hard. That is the moment the app you downloaded for help turns around and shows you what you lost. For a lot of ADHD adults, that is the exact moment they stop opening it.
Starting counts, because starting is the hard part.
Today only. Resets at midnight. Past days are not stored. You always start at zero. Zero is fine.
Yesterday's number is gone, and that is the feature.
At midnight the count goes back to zero. Not archived, not folded into a weekly average, not saved for a chart. Beginary does not keep the history, which means a streak cannot be assembled from it later, by us or by anyone.
This is the part people find strange at first, and it is the part that matters most. If the data existed, there would always be a reason to surface it: a gentle weekly summary, a small graph, a note that this week was quieter than last. Every one of those is a comparison, and a comparison with your own better days is the most reliable way to make a bad day worse. So the data does not exist. What you get instead is a screen that can only ever describe the day you are actually in, which is the only day you can do anything about. Open it on a day you did one thing and it will tell you that you did one thing, calmly, without reference to the six you did on Tuesday.
Most apps count to motivate you, which means the count has to have teeth: a run to protect, a chart to keep green, a number that means something only if it keeps going up. Today's Wins has no teeth on purpose. It cannot punish you, because it forgets. It exists to answer one question on the evening of a hard day, when your own memory of it is unreliable and unkind: did I actually do anything? Most of the time the honest answer is yes, and more than you thought, and nobody was writing it down.
Counting is the end of the loop.
Wins records what happened. These are the parts that make it happen.
The same decision, everywhere else.
Wins resets because Beginary refuses to keep a counter you can break. Here is what that costs, and why we pay it.
Close the day without a score.
A quiet evening recap and a look at tomorrow. Same principle, at the other end of the day.
One question to begin.
Every micro-win on this screen came from starting something. Just Start is how the starting gets easier.
Today's Wins, in plain answers.
What is Today's Wins?
A single-day count of what you did. It shows how many tasks you finished, and it also counts the smaller things that usually go unrecorded: starting at all, reaching one minute, reaching five, passing halfway. It resets at midnight, and past days are not stored anywhere. You always begin the day at zero.
Is Today's Wins a streak?
No, and it is built so it cannot become one. A streak needs history to count across, and Beginary does not keep the history. Yesterday's number is gone, so there is no run to protect and nothing that breaks when you have a hard day. The screen says so in plain words: today only, resets at midnight, past days are not stored, zero is fine.
Why does starting count as a win?
Because starting is the part that is actually hard. If only finished tasks count, then a day where you began three difficult things and completed none reads as a zero, which is both false and discouraging. Beginary records a micro-win the moment you start, and again at one minute, five minutes, and halfway. On the days when nothing gets finished, that is the record of the work you really did.
What happens on a day when I finish nothing?
The screen says "Nothing finished yet. That's fine. Start with one thing." It does not scold you, count down at you, or show an empty progress bar. If you started something, the micro-wins for it are still there. A zero day is a normal day, and the copy is written so it reads that way.
What is the hard one faced today card?
When you tell Beginary you are avoiding a task and then finish it anyway, it gets its own place on the screen. It reads: "You said you were Avoiding it. You faced it anyway. That's the one to remember." Finishing a task you dreaded is not the same as finishing an easy one, so it is not counted as the same.
Does Beginary store my daily counts?
No. There is no weekly chart, no monthly total, and no history screen, because none of that data is kept. The count is derived from today and thrown away with today. That is a deliberate design decision rather than a feature that has not been built yet.
You did more than you remember.
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