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Seeing how you're doing

A tracker that only collects data is half a tracker. The other half is showing you what's actually happened in a way you can absorb in five seconds.

Vita gives you three views, each tuned to a different question:

  1. The week view — what's happening right now?
  2. The summary — how am I doing over time?
  3. Streaks — am I keeping it up?

Each does one thing well. None of them try to be a dashboard.

The week view

The week view is your home screen. It comes in two shapes, and you can flip between them from the page header:

  • Day stack (the default) — one card per day, today on top, your activities listed inside each card. Best on a phone, where vertical scrolling is the natural motion.
  • Habit grid (coming soon) — a matrix with one row per activity and one column per day of the week. Every entry is coloured by outcome: done is filled in, skipped fades back, missed is dashed and dim, future days are open slots waiting. Best on a tablet or laptop where the seven columns fit comfortably.

Below is the habit-grid shape — the sketch we're aiming for:

This week May 18 – 24 M T W T F S S Morning walk Stretch Meditate Read · 20 min
The week so far, in habit-grid shape. Green = done, amber dashed = missed, grey faded = skipped, empty dashed = upcoming.

Three signals jump out without reading a word:

  • Where am I keeping up? Solid green rows mean you're on it.
  • Where am I drifting? A patch of amber means days are slipping by.
  • Today's open? Look at today's column.

Tap any cell to see the underlying record — or to fill one in late.

The day-stack view shows the same information turned 90 degrees: every day is its own card, and inside each card the activities for that day are listed with the same colour cues. Same data, different shape. Pick whichever matches how you think about the week.

The summary

Zoom out to a month, a quarter, or a year and you get the summary view. The week grid is for what's happening right now; the summary is for how is this going over time?.

It's a small bar chart of done counts per week (or per day, depending on the range you pick), with totals and your active streaks listed below. No ranking against other users, no leaderboards. Just your data beside your data.

May 2026 last 6 weeks Movement · done per week w1 w2 w3 w4 w5 w6 total this month 38of 42 longest streak 12days
Monthly summary for "Movement". Six weeks of bars, totals on the left, current best streak on the right.

Streaks, gently

Yes, Vita has streaks. No, they're not the point.

A streak in Vita is just a count of how many consecutive scheduled days you've kept an activity going. It shows up on the summary so you can see what's clicking. It doesn't flash red when you break one. It doesn't apologise. It doesn't shame you. It just resets and starts counting again from the next day you mark done.

If the streak feature stresses you out — and for some people it does — ignore it. The rest of the views work the same with or without it.

A few honest notes

  • "Missed" stops at today. Future days that you might miss aren't shown as misses; they just sit there waiting.
  • The week starts where you set it. Monday by default; flip it to Sunday in Settings if that's how you think.
  • Numeric fields get their own little summary. If your activity has a "distance" field, the summary will show average / total / max for the period. Skip the field on a given day and it's left out, not counted as zero.
  • Skipped days reduce the "of N" denominator. If you walk 5 of 7 scheduled days and skip the other 2 deliberately, the summary shows "5 of 5 you went for". A deliberate skip isn't a failure to walk.