Frequently Asked Questions

About everyday

everyday is a simple and beautiful habit tracker, an application that helps you track your habits and get disciplined. everyday's habit board provides an at a glance overview of all the habits you are pushing for making it easy to keep them in mind whilst seeing which ones you are doing good at and which ones you need to push harder for. It helps you make yourself accountable of your own goals and progress.

The premise is that the best way to reach your goals is to work on them EVERY DAY. Of course, that's easier said than done. But taking from the great quote "Every day it gets a little easier, but you gotta do it every day, that's the hard part", we understand that if we manage to do things every day, to form new habits, it will become gradually easier and we will succeed.

everyday helps us form chains, consecutive days in which we have done an habit. The idea that the more days in a row we manage to fulfill a task (e.g do 50 pushups) the longer the chain becomes and thus, we are more motivated to keep increasing our streak. We just make that extra effort to keep the chain alive! In other words, don't break the chain for as long as you can and without noticing, you'll have embraced such task into your daily routine, helping you towards your goals.

everyday increases the color tone by every new chained day, which adds a little bit of motivation and ultimately makes our board look beautiful. The more we do, the prettier it looks!

everyday sends email reminders the most important of which is the "don't skip twice" which helps you remind not to skip doing an habit twice. Breaking a chain after a few days it's normal, just forgive yourself and start a new one! It's much easier to lose a routine than to form a new one, so reminders help you make sure not to lose the so hardly earned progress!

If you measure it, you can improve it.

Let's be honest here, the most important thing here is commitment from your side.

With that being said, my recommendation would be to start by adding few habits you would like to form and make sure to read them at least once a day. A good way to make sure of that is to either add the application as a pinned tab on your web browser, or to set it as your homepage. The first step is to have such goals in mind as much as possible.

Then, it's time to get started, it will sound dumb but, just start. Your goal is 50 pushups a day and you did 5 today? That's already an awesome job!! Just go and mark the habit on everyday. This is very important, do a little bit EVERY DAY, no matter how little. Some days you will feel you haven't really accomplished your daily goal, while some other you'll do more than expected. That's normal. Just make sure to do it as many days as possible without breaking the chain.

I know, it's very hard to do things every day, there are weekends, holidays, etcetera. We all skip days. Again, that's normal. If you skip a day, breaking your so hardly accomplished long chain, don't worry. Forgive yourself and start a new one as soon as possible. I can't stress enough how important it is to not skip twice. everyday helps in that regard with reminders.

Finally, this is one of the ways in which I use everyday that I think it's valuable sharing. We all have big goals/dreams that are easy to overlook on our busy daily lives. These might even be very hard to track, maybe they are not even quantifiable. For example, one of my habits is "become a better person". What can I do every day to become a better person? It's not so easy to track. So, the way I use everyday is to have some "short-term habits" with one color, and other "long-term goals" in another color. I then divide my long-term goals into more quantifiable short-term goals. I try to divide and conquer my more abstract goals. For example, "help someone", "learn something", "write", "listen to others", "be honest", etcetera. These are much easier to go through every day and think "have I helped someone today?". I like it because it helps me think every day on what I want to accompish in the long run and work towards it on a daily basis.

At the time of writing this I have 23 habits on my list, just so you get an idea. everyday is very flexible. Just find the way it works best for you!

This really depends on your goals. You might want to start with some habits you have already been working on but you still don't consider part of your routine.

I'll give some general ideas:

• Meditate
• Talk to a stranger
• Wake up early
• Write
• Go for a walk
• Learn something
• Cook my own food
• Read
• Work out
• Eat healthy
• Play an instrument
• Have a good attitude
• Work on everyday ( ;D )

Beware! This question is for techies :P

The application uses React, Redux, Webpack and SASS on the frontend and Koa (Node.js), Knex.js and MySQL on the backend. The webserver is Caddy.

The mobile application is developed with React Native.

Features

On the right side you can see three columns of numbers. "Current streak" is the number of days you have managed to chain the habit until today. This is the number you have to keep increasing! "Longest streak" is your personal record of the highest number of days you have ever managed to chain such habit. This is the number you have to beat! Finally, the third column is a count of the total of times you've done such habit.

By moving the slider you can see the counts by year, month and week. Finally, you can also see the yearly, monthly and weekly completion rates.

These numbers are just a count of the number of habits you have completed each day. These numbers are useful to compare in a day to day basis. Did I complete more habits today than yesterday? It's just another way to keep accountable of your progress.

Yes, just click on an habit name and drag it up or down.

My idea with everyday is to make it as minimal and flexible as possible. In the end the power of paper is flexibility, so we need o try to make applications get as close to that as possible. The option to use colors allows you to use them as you wish. Some people will just use the color scale they like better while other's will use it as separators, or to categorize habits by type. For example, habits related to health and fitness can be green, while habits related to reading and learning can be blue. The important thing is to get to have a pretty board because it will mean you are doing a damn good job!

Not yet (as of June 2018). But this is certainly something that I want to bring into everyday. Sharing our progress helps motivate us. If you would really like to have this feature please make sure to contact me at joan@everyday.app and let's talk about it, I really want to learn from you how do you expect this to work. For example, the option to hide some habits from the public board might be relevant.

Yes! As a web application you can access everyday from your mobile phone browser and mark habits from there! It's responsive design adapts the board to your mobile phone screen. However, the beauty of the board is mostly lost so I recommend using the mobile application that allows for more flexibility while preserving the minimalist and beautiful approach.

As of June 2018: Yes it does! Find a link to it on the devices section of this website and let me know what you think!

At the moment the application only exists in english. It's prepared to handle other languages but right now I am waiting to see how critical it is. If you'd like to see the application in your language, make sure to let me know at joan@everyday.app!

This is an issue that comes up every once in a while. I can't say the application will never support it but right now it's not in the roadmap. Since my goal is to have a beautiful, minimal and flexible application this feature would pose a real threat. The main idea of everyday is to target things that must be done EVERY DAY. However, the skip option allows for enough flexibility, so that you can skip the days the habit doesn't apply in. With the "no weekends" option, everyday will automatically skip weekends for you so that you can focus on your every weekday habits :)

Let's talk about it! Shoot me an email at joan@everyday.app!

As a computer engineer and product person it's very easy for me to just come up with new solutions, features, etcetera. However, what brought me substantial success with everyday was to learn to discard features, to keep the application as simple and beautiful as possible while preserving it's flexibility. This is what my users value and this is my goal number one. I'll really make sure to not clutter the application with useless features or features that only make happy a very small % of the user base. I don't need to keep adding features to justify the price of the application. The main goal of the application is to really make it easy for the users to benefit from using it.

Support

No worries! Just recover access to your account and set a new password visiting https://everyday.app/forgot.

There are two ways to turn email reminders off:

From any of the emails itself, in the footer, you can either turn the specific type of email reminder off or turn all email reminders off.

From the application itself, clicking on the dropdown menu under your name on the top right corner, you can navigate to the settings menu. From there you can manage your email reminders and turn them on/off.

From the application, clicking on the dropdown menu under your name on the top right corner, you can navigate to the settings menu. From there you can manage your mailing list subscription.

1. Go to the Google Web Store.
2. Click the "Add to Chrome" button on the top right side.
3. Confirm you want to add everyday web extension.
4. Try that it works by opening a new tab! It should load your board :)

1. Navigate to "chrome://extensions/" in your browser.
2. Search for everyday in the list and click on the trash bin icon.

1. Go to the Add-ons for Mozilla Firefox website.
2. Click the "Add to Firefox" button.
3. Confirm you want to add everyday web extension.
4. Try that it works by opening a new tab! It should load your board :)

1. Navigate to "about:addons" in your browser.
2. Search for everyday in the list and click on the remove button.

In Google Chrome:

1. In the top right corner of your computer's browser, click More (three dots) and then Settings.
2. In the "Appearance" section, turn on Show home button.
3. Select the second option, then enter https://app.everyday.app.

In Firefox:

1. Open your browser and visit https://app.everyday.app.
2. Drag the tab to the Home button, then release.
3. Click Yes.

In Safari:

1. In the top left corner of your screen, select Safari and then Preferences and then General.
2. Next to "New windows open with" and "New tabs open with," select Homepage.
3. Next to "Homepage," enter https://app.everyday.app.

In Internet Explorer:

1. In the menu bar on the top of your browser, click Tools.
2. Select Internet Options.
3. Click the General tab.
4. In the "Home page" section, enter https://app.everyday.app in the text box.
5. Click OK.
6. Restart your browser.

In Android browser

1. Open your browser app, like Internet or Browser.
2. On your phone or in the top right of the browser, tap More (three dots).
3. Tap Settings and then Homepage and then Other web page.
4. Enter https://app.everyday.app.
5. Tap OK.

It's important to note that the app itself resides under https://app.everyday.app and so, this should be the url to bookmark. I take for granted that almost everyone knows how to bookmark a site. However, you can find detailed instructions for your browser here.

Pinned Tabs allow you to pin any website to the left side of the Tab Strip so that it's always available.

Control-click on the tab you want to pin and select "Pin Tab" from the menu.

Resize the browser window so you can see both your computer's desktop and the browser window on the same screen.

Navigate to https://app.everyday.app and select the url.

Drag the selected url to your desktop. It should create the shortcut.

Adding a shortcut to your phone/tablet's homescreen gives it more visibility and ease of access for you to keep accountable of your habits.

In Android:

1. Open Chrome and navigate to https://app.everyday.app.
2. Tap the menu button and tap "add to homescreen".

In iPad/iPhone:

1. Open Safari and navigate to https://app.everyday.app.
2. Tap the "share button" (the rectangle with an arrow pointing upward)
3. Give the shortcut a name, i.e "everyday".
4. Tap "Add button".

Privacy & Payments

Everyday is free, forever. However, there's the possibility to upgrade to Everyday Premium which costs $29.99 per year and grants you access to all the premium features across all devices.

It's very easy to manage your subscription. In case you want to unsubscribe, you can easily do so by clicking "unsubscribe" from the application settings. The application will ALWAYS notify you one month before the subscription renews.

Yes. I am the only person with access to the server. The server is hosted by Amazon, a renowned dedicated server company. I do regular backups. I have absolutely no intention of sharing your data. Charging to subscribe for the app allows me to cover the costs to run everyday without needing to find alternative unmoral business models.

everyday uses Stripe.com as a payment method. Stripe.com is a trustworthy payment solution that precisely works to solve this kind of issue. By using Stripe, your credit card information securely travels between your web browser and Stripe servers. everyday never sees any credit card information, it just gets notified by Stripe of when a payment has been done.

Right now, everyday uses Stripe.com as the unique payment method. This payment method ensures your credit card information to be securely sent to their servers without the end products (in this case, everyday) ever seeing any of your credit card details. This makes it easier for you, and also for me.

I am considering allowing payments via Paypal in the future.

A project has to be sustainable, or shut down.

Paying $29.99/year ensures that the costs to run everyday are covered, that the app will be there helping us EVERY DAY, forever, and motivates me to keep improving it with your feedback.

It shows you care.

Not convinced? Read what Maciej from Pinboard wrote on the topic or shoot me an email!

From the application settings, you have the option to delete your account :( If you, by any chance end up deciding to delete your account, I'll appreciate if you give me any feedback on how I could have made the application better for you :)