A habit you skip costs you nothing.
A habit tracker you are allowed to skip. Habits only appear on the days you picked for them, and if today is not one of those days you tap Not today and the habit goes. It does not count as a miss. Your streak holds, your points do not change, and the habit is back on its next scheduled day.
Walk for an hour
Every dayThree days of one daily habit. Tuesday and Thursday are done. Wednesday is empty, and nothing about it is marked as failed, overdue or reset.
Three weeks of an actual life.
You know the shape of this one. A streak breaks, the guilt lands, and by day sixty the app is off your phone.
Here a missed day is an empty square, not a red one. A week away leaves a gap, not a backlog. There is nothing to clear before you start again.
You have quit apps before because coming back meant fixing things first. Here, coming back just means opening the app.
Three real weeks
Two weeks ago
5 of 7
Last week: didn't open it once. Nothing piled up.
This week
5 of 7
Your habits are exactly where you left them. The streak starts again.
A three week calendar. Five of seven days were done two weeks ago, none at all last week, and five of seven this week. Nothing on the calendar is marked as failed or overdue, and there is no backlog to clear. The streak starts again after the week away.
How a habit fits a week.
- 01
Only on the days it belongs
A habit can run every day, a few times a week, or once a year. Pick the weekdays and it only shows up on those.
- 02
Not today, and it's gone
One tap hands the day back. It does not count as a miss, your points do not change, and your streak holds.
- 03
Nothing turns red
A day you missed is simply empty. Habits never pile up as overdue, so a week away leaves a gap and not a list to clear.
A day you explain, or a day you hand back.
You already know how the other one goes. You miss one day, the number goes back to zero, and by day sixty the app is off your phone.
A day you have to explain
Back to zero
- The day turns red
- It waits for you tomorrow
- Seven things to catch up on
The punishment is meant to motivate you. For this audience it reliably does the opposite.
A day you hand back
Not today
- One tap and it is gone
- Not counted as a miss
- Back on its next day
A gap in the record, because that is what happened. You lose no points for it.
What it won't do
Being forgiving is not the same as fixing everything.
Forgiving is not the same as silent. A habit you haven't touched in three weeks still appears in the list, plainly, with the gap visible. Hiding it would be a different kind of dishonest.
There is a streak, and it can go back to one. It counts days you finished something, so a day you finish nothing at all restarts it unless you have a shield. Nothing else happens: no red, no penalty, and no notification.
It won't motivate you on its own. Removing the punishment removes a reason to quit; it doesn't add a reason to start. That's what the reward economy is for.
It isn't treatment, and it isn't a substitute for care. It's a productivity app built for how ADHD brains work, and nothing here claims a health outcome.
Questions
The rest of Actto
Every part of Actto is here because something kept going wrong without it. Each one works on its own, and you never have to use all of them.
