Understand Momentum, tiers, and Dayprints
Momentum is Dayprints' long-term collection of progress from eligible completed actions. It is visible on Progress, and completing a task briefly shows the amount added beside that completion.
A new account with no history first sees a two-step explanation of the daily tools and this long arc. It can be skipped immediately, does not teach interface controls, and stays dismissed across devices.
How Momentum is earned
- normal task: 3 Momentum
- priority task: 5 Momentum
- habit: 2 Momentum
- qualifying completed Today plan: 8 Momentum
- meaningful end-of-day review: 3 Momentum
Up to 50 Momentum can be earned per local day. Creating or editing tasks earns nothing. Undo reverses the applicable award; rest days do not reduce Momentum. Finishing a task within two minutes of adding it earns Momentum the first time, but a second such completion in that same two-minute window does not; when that happens the Undo message says so, so the difference is never silent.
How tiers work
Progress shows your current tier and the path toward the next one: Seed at 0, Bloom at 250, Current at 1,000, Radiance at 3,000, and Masterwork at 10,000 Momentum. The tier shown is the highest one you have reached, so it never moves backwards after an undo or a quieter period.
Momentum does not reset each week and continues accruing after Masterwork. The thresholds describe a long-term record, not a weekly target.
Crossing into a new tier is marked once in the day-complete sequence. Before the Dayprint appears, a held screen names the crossing — the tier you left and the tier you reached. For Seed through Radiance, it also says a new family of artwork and a matching frame come with it; crossing into Masterwork instead awards your first Masterpiece Series edition, since Masterwork has no daily family of its own (see "Which family your Dayprint comes from" below). It waits for you rather than timing out, and Continue, Escape, Back and the header arrow all move on to the Dayprint, so the print cannot be lost by missing the beat. It fires once per crossing and never again, including when you reopen that Dayprint from Progress. Masterwork is the final tier, so Progress marks the milestone without showing another target. With reduced motion, the Momentum change and tier information remain visible without relying on animation.
Which family your Dayprint comes from
Reaching a tier does not mean every finished day at that tier draws its own family of artwork. The crossing screen above marks one moment; this is what an ordinary day looks like afterwards.
- Seed and Bloom always draw their own family. Every finished day, no exceptions.
- Current currently draws its own family every finished day too.
- Radiance draws its own family about one day in five. The rest of the time it draws Current, and Radiance prints are never more than eight finished days apart.
- Masterwork has no daily family of its own. An ordinary finished day draws Current about three days in four and Radiance about one day in four, and Radiance prints are never more than twelve finished days apart. What actually marks Masterwork is the Masterpiece Series: your first edition is awarded the day you are promoted — a different kind of keepsake from the daily print. Further editions follow as you keep finishing days.
These are today's settings. If Dayprints ever changes them, this page will say so.
How Dayprints relate
A Dayprint record is created when you complete at least one task you had planned — for any date, not only today — leave nothing unfinished in today's plan, and leave no unresolved item in Needs attention. Work you planned for a later date and finished early counts, so planning ahead is never penalised. A task you never planned at all does not count: the record marks a day you decided about, not simply a day you were busy. Habits enrich the day summary but never block it. Each record keeps the tier held when the day was completed.
Once those conditions are met the day closes on its own — there is no button to press, and the Dayprint appears shortly afterwards. Until they are met, the End-of-day review row on Today names what is still outstanding — and names every way to clear it. Finishing an outstanding task is one route; so is choosing Tomorrow, Later or Archive for it in the End-of-day review. A day you did not finish exactly as planned still earns its Dayprint once nothing is left undecided.
One day, one chance: a Dayprint cannot be earned late. A day that closed without one stays without one, which is why the record marks the occasion rather than the picture. Progress carries the same summary under Dayprints, where How do I get one? repeats these conditions.
A Dayprint is a quiet record of a day you finished. You can choose one of your Dayprints as your profile picture without changing the record or its artwork.
Open Progress to find the latest thirty available Dayprint artworks in a horizontally scrollable shelf, with the newest first. Tap a piece to see the artwork at a larger size, along with its date, palette, and serial. Under the serial sits a short line naming the tier and its treatment — "Bloom · Warm, expressive colour" — which appears on every print of that tier rather than only the first, so it still reads as a label months later rather than as news.
The five palettes are Dusty rose, Lavender, Mineral teal, Muted ochre, and Sage. Rare pieces are marked Rare Dayprint in the detail view.
Not every piece has a palette. A rare piece is a distinct named painting in the shared catalogue rather than a palette version of a standard pattern. More than one account may receive the same piece. A rare Seed piece may arrive as Pigment Rain, and the detail view shows that name where a standard piece shows its palette. Every rare in the collection now has a name, including the two earliest pieces, Crossing Currents and Twilight Confluence.
Your first five standard Seed Dayprints work through all five palettes before a colour comes round again or a rare piece becomes possible. The selection uses your own history and account-specific seed rather than assigning one picture to each calendar date, so two people completing the same date can receive different pieces.
Each palette holds more than fifty distinct paintings, so a colour coming round again does not mean the same picture coming round again. A Dayprint you have already been given is not given to you a second time while unseen ones remain. That holds for days close together as well: your next couple of days are prepared a little ahead of time, and each one sets its own picture aside while it waits, so two days running cannot be given the same painting.
How Dayprints are framed
Every Dayprint is given a frame at the moment it is made, and keeps that frame permanently. A Dayprint you completed months ago will not change frames because newer ones are available, in the same way its artwork never changes.
Which frames you can be given depends on the tier you held when the day was completed. Seed days draw from a set of fifteen wood, paint and metal finishes.
You will be given every frame in that set before any of them comes round again. Framing draws from the ones you have seen least, so a repeat means you have already collected the rest of the tier rather than the app having run short.
Every Seed frame carries a plain ivory mat with a softly cut inner edge, so the picture sits inside a mount rather than running straight into the moulding.
The shelf and the detail view both hang your Dayprints on a softly lit wall so they read as objects rather than thumbnails. Nothing here is a setting: framing is part of the record, not something to configure, and it costs nothing.
Use a Dayprint as your profile picture
Open Settings and select Profile picture, then choose from up to 30 recent Dayprints whose artwork is available. You can also select the round profile picture on Today to open Settings, where the chooser lives.
The chosen artwork appears in the round profile picture and in the Profile picture row in Settings. To clear it, open the chooser again and select No profile picture. This changes the account picture without changing the Dayprint itself.
You can also open a Dayprint on Progress and choose Use as profile picture in its detail view. When that piece is already selected, the same place offers Remove profile picture.
Momentum, tiers, stored all-time Progress history, and account export are currently included on Free.
Put this into practice with Dayprints. Plan what matters today and collect a dated artwork for each day you finish.
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