Streak, milestones and the calendar
How the streak works, which sessions count, how to set milestones of your own, and how to read the calendar.
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There is a flame icon on the home screen with a number next to it: your streak. It shows how many days in a row you have done a session.
Which sessions count towards the streak
A session counts by rounds. Doing part of the planned rounds is enough, and how much depends on the technique and on the length of the session. Even if you do only part of a long session, it counts. A session that doesn't get that far isn't saved.
A round you nearly finished still counts as done.
If you want to see how far there is to go, pause the session: on the percentage ring in the menu, the part needed for the session to count is lightly tinted. A program's day fills by the same rule, and so do sessions done on the watch.
Sessions without the microphone do count. Not getting a score has no effect on the streak.
Doing several sessions in one day doesn't speed the streak up — it counts days, not sessions.
A session that runs past midnight is recorded on the day it started. A session that begins at 23:50 and ends at 00:05 counts as yesterday's.
Milestones
There are stops along the streak: a few days, a week, a month and so on. When you reach one, it is celebrated on the home screen and in the session report.
Besides the ready-made stops, you can set your own. Add a new goal from the streak screen and write in whatever number of days you like. It gets marked on the calendar and celebrated when you reach it.
Stops show the number of days. As the number grows, the look gets a little richer. Year stops show a large "1", "2"… with "year" underneath instead of 365. A new year stop comes every year.
When you add your own stop, you can pick its colour and look: one of four number styles or a symbol. You can give it a name too if you like.
The milestones you add yourself sit in a separate list on the milestones card of the streak screen: Your own milestones. Tap one and an editing page opens. You can change its name, number of days, look and colour, or delete it.
When you create your first milestone of your own, you earn the My Own Path achievement. Even if you delete the milestone later, the achievement stays earned.
If your streak is two days or longer, the share icon on the streak screen lets you share it as a card, with the day count and a strip of the last two weeks. When you reach a milestone, the same icon sits under the celebration, and the card shows the milestone you reached.
The calendar
Tap the Streak tile on the home screen, or the Streak row in Profile, and the streak screen opens, with the calendar inside it.
Every day is a box: days you did a session are filled, days you didn't are empty. Milestones are marked separately. The calendar shows the current month. Tap the month and the year view opens, and the arrows take you to earlier years.
The year view shows the whole year on one screen — the regular stretches and the breaks stand out there.
Streak shield
If there's a day you can't do a session, a streak shield keeps your streak. The shield is used on its own the day after a day without a session, and that day the home screen tells you your shield kept your streak.
Each missed day uses one shield. You can hold up to three shields at a time, and a new streak starts with three. You earn new shields as you do sessions, and they come sooner the more effort you put in.
A day kept by a shield doesn't break your streak, but it isn't added to it either, and it doesn't go into your total sessions and minutes. It shows on the calendar with a shield mark.
Your shields are on the streak screen and in the Streak box on the home screen. The streak screen also shows how close the next shield is. At the Advanced level it also lists when shields were earned and used, and your repairs.
When the streak breaks
If you don't do a session on a day with no shield left, the streak breaks. But you can repair it: within the repair period, do 3 sessions or 20 minutes in total in a single day and your streak comes back. If it doesn't happen in one day, you can try again the next day, and each day's progress starts from zero.
The repair period gets longer with the length of the broken streak and the effort you put into it, up to two weeks. The streak screen shows how many days are left.
A repaired streak carries on from where it was and the missed days aren't added to the count: on the day you repair a 12-day streak, it becomes 13. Days closed by a repair show on the calendar with a bandage mark. A repaired streak carries on with one shield, and each streak can be repaired once.
On repair days, when you open the app a page shows that day's goal and your progress. From there you can go straight into a session with Quick start, and the card on the home screen shows the same information. At the end of the session that repairs the streak, a screen shows your streak is back.
If the repair period passes, the streak resets. The app doesn't present this as a failure: your longest streak stays on record and a new streak begins with your first session, with three shields.
The streak alert
If you haven't done a session that day and no shield is left to keep it, an alert arrives in the evening. If your streak has broken, a notification reminds you about the repair on the first day of the repair period, on the last day and, if the period is long, once in the middle. You can set the time of the first alert and how often it repeats in the streak section under Settings → Notification options, or turn the alert off entirely. If you turn the alert off, the repair notifications don't come either.
Not getting hung up on the streak
A streak is a tool, not a debt. Giving up the app because you missed one day costs more than the missed day did. A two-minute session completes the day — on hard days, that is enough.