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Kintsugi
Kintsugi

Journal

Notes on how the app is built and why it refuses to do certain things. Written by the person building it.

  • Why there are no streaks in Kintsugi

    Streaks work. That is the problem. Here is the reasoning behind cutting the single most effective retention mechanic in consumer software out of an app about recovery.

  • One frog: how the planner handles a day with too much in it

    Most task apps let you flag everything as important. Kintsugi lets you nominate exactly one thing a day, and holds you to it.

  • Why the app is called Kintsugi

    A repaired bowl with a gold seam through it is worth more than it was before it broke. That claim is doing a lot of work, so it is worth being precise about what we mean by it and what we do not.