About
What this is for, and how to get something real out of it.
The intention
The seforim return to this again and again: without stopping to make an accounting of yourself, there is no way to refine anything. Not because the accounting itself changes you, but because a person cannot fix what he has never looked at squarely. This app exists to make that looking easy enough that you'll actually do it — a few honest minutes each night, and an honest picture of where you're holding that you can revisit each month.
It is deliberately private. Everything you write is saved on your own device first and keeps working with no connection at all. If you sign in, that same cheshbon is backed up to your account and follows you between your phone, your computer and the desktop app — and if you'd rather not, nothing ever leaves the device.
What each part is for
One middah or mitzvah you're actively repairing, with a plan in your own words and a length of time. When it ends you can reassess and see whether the score actually moved.
Commitments you take on, phrased however you want, with a start and end date. Kept or missed each day — nothing more complicated than that.
Per-tefillah logging. The score leans mostly on kavanah, then on not talking, then on when you arrived and whether it was with a minyan.
Log sessions with a name, topic and length. Goals are optional; the log itself is the main thing.
Behavioral questions about what you actually did, so the answer doesn't depend on your mood. Separate scores out of ten for middos and for mitzvos.
A five-second record of a moment you were pulled and had to choose. Tracked as a hold-back rate, so logging more is never a penalty.
Any past day, your trends, and a printable cheshbon sheet you can download as a PDF.
Signing in keeps your cheshbon backed up and in step across your phone, your computer and the desktop app. It's optional — without it everything stays on this device and nothing is uploaded.
Hide any section you don't use so the app matches your avodah, set language, theme and text size, and keep one backup file that overwrites in place instead of piling up copies.
How to use this well
- Start with one tikkun. A person working on one thing changes; a person working on eight changes nothing.
- Turn off what you don't need. Sections you hide stay out of the way without deleting anything, and you can bring them back any time.
- Log honestly, not favorably. A bad number you wrote truthfully is worth more than a good one you arranged.
- Do it at a fixed time — most people find the end of the day works, before you're too tired to be honest.
- Treat the assessment as a monthly reading, not a daily one. Reassess at Rosh Chodesh; middos move slowly and checking constantly only discourages you.
- Don't chase streaks. A broken streak is not a failure, it's a day. Pick it up the next night.
- Back up regularly. Your data lives on this device, so a backup is the only copy if something happens to it.