Every Little Thing
Glossary

Every word this product made up.

A moment, a heart, a transition week. Words a product invented are words nobody can look up, so here they are.

Ordered the way you meet them rather than alphabetically: the loop first, then the numbers, then the settings, then the two modes a couple can be in.

Moment

One thing one partner did for the two of you, added in a single tap. It counts the instant it is written down.

Nobody confirms it and nobody approves it. Being seen is the point, and a record you need permission to add to is not your record.

Heart

The unit. Every moment is weighed one, two or three hearts: an ordinary kindness, a real effort, or the thing that carried the day.

A word and never a glyph, and it counts what got done rather than how much anybody cares. The app does the weighing: your partner never grades you, and you never grade yourself.

Thanks

The one thing your partner can do to a moment of yours: a single tap that says it was seen.

Optional, never counted, never owed. It is the fastest way to be seen seeing.

Free window

The first two weeks, with the whole product and no card. When it ends, everything you added is kept, and one subscription for the pair opens it back up.

It is measured from the first time either of you joined, so reconnecting does not restart it.

Weekly goal

A number of hearts the two of you pick as what a full week looks like. One number for the pair, together.

A reference you chose, not a target the app set. Weeks already lived keep the goal they were lived against.

Balance

How the week fell between the two of you, shown as one label for the couple rather than as a ranking.

There is no winner field in the data. Clients are not allowed to compute one, and the dashboard returns both partners in a fixed order so neither side of the screen is the better one.

Grounding note

The italic line on every screen that shows a number, reminding both of you what the number is not.

A product rule, not a decoration. If a screen has numbers on it, it has one of these.

Weekly review

The Sunday-ish ritual: a few questions each, answered separately, opened together.

Private until mutual: neither of you sees the other's answers until both have submitted. Private notes never cross at all.

Most valued

What your partner picked out of last week's review as the thing that mattered most. It opens the dashboard.

Never your own pick, and never shown with a number attached.

Quiet mode

A couple setting that hides comparison and keeps everything else: no split between you, no balance, and every moment keeps its hearts and its why.

Applied by the server, not the app, so it cannot be undone by a screen that forgot.

Connect code

Your permanent public identity, 26 characters, printable as a QR. It is how your partner finds you.

It identifies and it never authenticates. Every connection is approved by the person who owns the code, which is why it is safe on a QR.

Invitation

A secret, single-use, expiring link for the ordinary case where your partner does not have an account yet.

The opposite object to a connect code, and the difference is what makes it safe: you created it deliberately, for them, and you are emailed the moment it is used.

Change log

The record of every change either of you made to a shared setting.

Either partner can change a couple setting alone. This is what stops that being invisible.

Transition week

The short week, one to seven days, created when a couple moves their review day.

The price of never reshaping a week you are already standing in.

Solo mode

One person keeping the record for both, writing down what they did and what they noticed their partner do, with the partner never opening the app.

Each moment still gets its hearts. The app weighs them, not you. And the week's totals stay a simple count. Nothing ranks you against the person who is not in the room, and if they join later, everything you wrote stays readable.


The argument behind most of these is on the page about keeping score, and the two that changed the product most have pages of their own: why each heart and quiet mode.

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