✨ Affirmations

Write personal affirmations, quotes, and reminders that surface in your daily check-in routine

✨ What It Does

Affirmations gives you a private space to store personal affirmations, inspirational quotes, mottos, or important reminders that you want to revisit daily. Write meaningful statements once, then choose how they surface in your morning routine—as simple text to read, checkboxes to acknowledge, or typed exercises that require you to write out the full affirmation. A home widget shuffles through your collection for daily inspiration, and optional end-to-end encryption keeps your most personal thoughts secure.

🚪 Access & Activation

Enable Affirmations from Settings → Features → Affirmations and follow the Enabling Features guide for the standard activation flow.

🧭 Core Workflow

Creating an Affirmation

Navigate to Affirmations in your sidebar
Click Add affirmation
Enter your affirmation text in the textarea (supports multi-line text)
Choose whether to Show in widget (enabled by default)
Select how the affirmation appears in your Daily check-in:
- Don't show: Hidden from daily check-in
- Show as checkbox: You'll check it off each morning
- Text: Displays as read-only text (automatically counts as complete)
- Type: Requires typing the full affirmation to proceed
Click Save

Your affirmations appear as cards on the main page, ordered with newest first.

Editing & Deleting

Edit: Click the Edit button on any affirmation card, make changes, and save
Delete: Click the Delete button and confirm—this permanently removes the affirmation

🛠️ Settings Inside the Feature

Each affirmation has two configuration options:

Toggle whether the affirmation appears in the My Day home widget. When enabled (default), the affirmation joins the rotation for daily display. Disable this if you want the affirmation available only in your check-in routine.

Daily Check-in Setting

Controls how the affirmation appears in your morning check-in:

Don't show: Completely hidden from check-in
Show as checkbox: Appears with a checkbox you must check to proceed—useful for affirmations you want to consciously acknowledge
Text: Displays as plain text and automatically counts as complete—ideal for reading without interaction
Type: Requires typing the entire affirmation with 96% accuracy to continue—forces active engagement and memorization

The typing mode uses case-insensitive comparison and allows minor typos, so you don't need letter-perfect accuracy.

🔐 Global Settings & Privacy

Daily Check-in Toggle

Navigate to Settings → Daily Check-in and use the Show affirmations checkbox to control whether affirmations appear in your morning check-in routine. This toggle is enabled by default. When disabled, affirmations remain accessible on their feature page but won't interrupt your check-in flow.

Optional Encryption

Affirmations support end-to-end encryption for sensitive personal content. To enable:

Click the Encryption Settings widget in the desktop header
Set a custom encryption key (password)
Save your key—it's stored only in your browser's local storage, never on the server

Once encryption is enabled:

All new affirmations are automatically encrypted before storage
You must provide your encryption key to view or edit existing affirmations
If you lose your key, your encrypted affirmations become permanently inaccessible (no recovery mechanism exists)
The encryption key is never transmitted to or stored on the server

To view or edit affirmations when encryption is active, ensure your key is set. If the app detects encryption without a key, you'll see: "Encryption required - Set your encryption key to view and edit affirmations."

Privacy

Affirmations are completely private by default. They never post to your timeline, don't appear in public feeds, and aren't visible to other users. The feature has no social or sharing components.

📊 Widgets & Dashboards

The Affirmations widget appears on your My Day page and displays a single random affirmation from those marked to Show in widget.

Widget Features:

Shows one random affirmation on each page load
Shuffle button: Click to randomly select a different affirmation (appears only when you have multiple affirmations enabled for the widget)
Add button: Opens the affirmation creation modal directly from the widget
Empty state: Displays "No affirmations." if none are configured to show in the widget

🔗 Integrations & Dependencies

Daily Check-in Integration

Affirmations integrate deeply with the daily check-in modal, appearing as a step in your morning routine when:

The global setting Settings → Daily Check-in → Show affirmations is enabled
At least one affirmation has a daily check-in setting other than "Don't show"
Your encryption key is available (if encryption is enabled)

During the check-in, affirmations appear in three possible modes (checkbox, text, type) based on your per-affirmation settings. You must complete all visible affirmations before proceeding to the next check-in step. A progress indicator shows how many affirmations you've completed out of the total.

Encryption Dependencies

When encryption is enabled, all affirmation operations require your encryption key to be present in browser local storage. If you clear your browser data or switch devices, you'll need to re-enter your encryption key via the Encryption Settings widget before accessing your affirmations.

💡 Tips & Edge Cases

Mix display modes: Combine checkbox, text, and typing modes across your affirmations to create variety in your morning routine—check off some, read others, and type the most important ones for deeper engagement
Widget curation: Disable Show in widget for affirmations you only want in your check-in routine, keeping your daily widget focused on your most inspiring statements
Typing mode tolerance: The 96% similarity threshold means you can make minor typos and still pass—don't stress about perfect spelling, just type naturally
Encryption caution: Only enable encryption if you truly need it, and immediately store your encryption key in a password manager. Lost keys mean permanently inaccessible affirmations with no recovery option
Check-in bypass: If you want to skip affirmations on a particular day, disable the Settings → Daily Check-in → Show affirmations toggle temporarily, then re-enable it later
Widget empty state: If all your affirmations have Show in widget disabled, the widget displays "No affirmations." even though affirmations exist on the main page
Single-affirmation shuffle: The shuffle button appears even with only one affirmation in the widget rotation, but clicking it does nothing useful—add more affirmations for meaningful shuffling
No tracking: The app doesn't track which affirmations you've completed on which days. Daily check-in only records that you finished check-in, not which specific affirmations you engaged with
Newest first: Affirmations always display newest first with no manual reordering—create newer ones to prioritize them at the top of the list