What Is a Dayprint? A Keepsake for a Completed Day
A Dayprint is Dayprints' keepsake for a day when you followed through on a real plan. It pairs an account-bound record of that local date with a piece of artwork selected from Dayprints' shared collection.
The artwork is not unique to one person. The same piece can recur across people, while the occasion it marks—your completed plan on that date—remains part of your own history. The defensible scarcity is the day, not the image.
The guide to Momentum, progress and Dayprints places that keepsake inside Dayprints' wider progress model. This article focuses on what a Dayprint means, what qualifies a day to make one, and how the current collection works.
A Dayprint begins with a kept commitment
Dayprints does not create a Dayprint merely because you opened the app or added tasks. A day must satisfy the completed-plan rule:
- every task in that plan is complete;
- at least one task you had planned — for any date, not only that day — was completed that day; and
- no unresolved item remains under Needs attention.
Habits can enrich the day's record and summary, but they never block the plan from resolving. A missed habit does not invalidate completed task commitments.
Once the rule is met and the brief Undo window closes, Dayprints confirms the completed day once. Reopening and recompleting a task does not create another keepsake for the same date. The result is one Dayprint record for one qualifying day, without duplicate rewards for repeating the same action.
This qualification matters. A Dayprint does not claim that every part of life went perfectly. It says something narrower and more honest: you made a plan with enough substance to count, dealt with the work that needed attention, and followed that plan through.
What makes the keepsake personal
Every Dayprint record combines the account, date, tier and a small set of signals from the day. Those signals include:
- how many planned tasks were completed;
- how many habits were kept; and
- the current Rhythm carried into the completed day.
The Dayprint does not need your task titles, notes, gratitude entry, or other private prose to become personal. It uses the shape of the day rather than the content of your life.
That distinction protects the idea from becoming intrusive. “Three tasks completed and one habit kept” can be kept with the dated record without exposing what the tasks were or what the habit meant.
The selected artwork comes from an approved shared catalogue, so another person may receive the same piece. That does not duplicate the occasion it marks. A Dayprint is an account-held record of a qualifying date, not a legal certificate, a cryptographic proof of how you spent every hour, or a claim to an exclusive image.
Deterministic does not mean repetitive
Artwork assignment is deterministic. Once a Dayprint has an artwork selection, opening that record resolves the same stored piece rather than repainting it each time.
That stability matters for a keepsake, but it does not imply uniqueness. A piece can appear again after the collection's spacing rules allow it, and the same catalogue piece can be assigned to another person.
Dayprints also versions its rendering approach. A Dayprint that has already been shown under an approved version is not silently repainted when the visual system evolves. The aim is continuity: new visual work can improve without rewriting keepsakes people have already seen.
The protected values that make this possible remain inside the product. You do not need to know, copy, or manage them, and Dayprints should never expose them as a public code.
What the keepsake includes today
The completed-day record, artwork reveal and collection are part of the product now.
Completing a qualifying plan confirms the account-bound Dayprint record. When matching artwork is available, Dayprints resolves a piece from the shared catalogue and shows it in the reveal and Progress collection. You can open the keepsake to see its date and artwork details, or choose it as your profile picture. Its tier and day signals remain stored in the Dayprint record.
The daily sequence remains simple:
- plan at least one meaningful task;
- do the work and resolve Needs attention;
- confirm the completed day;
- see its Dayprint artwork and keep the dated record; and
- return with the progress preserved.
The Progress collection keeps recent Dayprints newest first and gives the latest thirty a scrollable shelf. If an artwork asset is temporarily unavailable, the underlying qualifying-day record remains part of the account rather than being discarded.
How tiers make the collection richer
Dayprints has five collection tiers: Seed, Bloom, Current, Radiance, and Masterwork. The tier reached at the time of completion stays attached to that day's record.
The creative direction becomes richer across those tiers. Seed begins with a restrained single-colour vocabulary. Bloom introduces a broader family of pigments. Current and Radiance increase movement, contrast, and luminosity, while Masterwork is designed as the long-term, most developed vocabulary.
The tier attached at confirmation is not always the family shown that day: Seed, Bloom and (currently) Current draw their own family every time, but Radiance and Masterwork mostly draw from a calmer tier below — Understand Momentum, tiers, and Dayprints has the exact odds. It does not make the image exclusive either way: every tier still draws from a shared collection.
Tier progression also moves in one direction. Momentum can change when a task is undone, but a tier you have already reached does not drop backwards. An earlier Dayprint keeps the tier associated with the day it was made instead of being restyled to match a later account state.
A collection tells a different story from a chart
A chart is useful for comparison: how many tasks were completed, whether a habit was consistent, or how much work carried forward. A collection has a different emotional job. It preserves individual days without reducing them to a rising line.
That is why a Dayprint is created per qualifying date rather than as one image that is endlessly overwritten. Over time, the record can contain quiet days, highly active days, different tiers, and natural gaps. A day without a Dayprint stays a gap; it is not coloured red or treated as a moral failure.
The comparison between streaks and Momentum explains the same principle at another scale. Rhythm can pause, while lifetime Momentum and completed-day records preserve the longer arc. The collection shows return and accumulation without pretending consistency means identical output every day.
Why visible progress helps you keep going looks at the feedback loop behind that longer arc. A Dayprint gives the loop a durable unit: not just evidence that a number rose, but a specific day worth remembering.
Your history remains yours
Free currently includes stored all-time Progress history and account export. Plus adds capacity and unlimited reflection history; Free shows the latest 90 days of reflections.
If you downgrade, existing data is retained, all-time Progress and Dayprints remain visible, and Free shows the latest 90 days of reflections. Tasks stay completable; archiving remains available while archived-task capacity has room. Account export covers 37 datasets, including saved routines, their application history, and quick-add templates alongside tasks, habits, progress, and Dayprints. Creation remains subject to Free capacity limits.
Dayprint records follow the same data-dignity principle. They are retained in the account history and included in account export, while Progress shows up to thirty of the most recent Dayprints with available artwork.
This makes the collection valuable without restricting ownership. It grows because you return. Stored Progress history and export are currently available without Plus, while reflections older than 90 days require Plus to view.
What a Dayprint is—and is not
A Dayprint is:
- one account-bound record for one qualifying local day;
- a dated record of completed-task, kept-habit, and Rhythm signals;
- paired with artwork assigned from a shared catalogue;
- associated with the tier held when the day completed; and
- part of the progress history you retain and can export.
A Dayprint is not:
- proof that the day was perfect;
- a reward for creating busywork;
- a public copy of your tasks or reflections;
- a claim that its artwork is unique to one person; or
- a collectible Dayprints can hide to force an upgrade.
The idea is simple: a finished commitment should leave a trace worth keeping, even when the work itself was ordinary.
Make one day worth keeping
Try Dayprints' keepsake loop: choose a realistic plan with at least one task, follow it through, and let the qualifying day become a dated record of what you actually did. It keeps the path from today's decisions to visible Momentum personal and lasting—without turning progress into a complicated score.