Mindfulness
The distinction
Some things that want your attention aren’t really tasks. Brushing your teeth isn’t a todo. Five minutes of stretching isn’t a todo. A gratitude journal isn’t a todo. If you put those in your loop as items, they rot — you don’t “complete” them the way you complete an email.
Loopr models these separately, under Mindfulness — and splits them into two distinct shapes: routines (commitments) and activities (a menu). Conflating the two is the most common mistake; the difference is the whole point.
Routines — intentions you set, on a schedule
A routine is something you’ve committed to do on a recurring schedule. You can check it off, or skip it with intention, every day it’s scheduled. Examples: “stretch every weekday,” “no phone before 9am,” “write for 20 min.”
Each day you get a column of your routines that are scheduled for that day. For each one you can:
- Done — completed for today
- Skip — explicitly acknowledged you’re not doing it today
- (no action) — counts as missed at end of day
The difference between skipping and missing matters — skipping is you making a call; missing is drift. Your lookbacks will call out routines that were scheduled and never checked off as misses worth noticing.
If you don’t intend to do something on a schedule, it doesn’t belong here — it belongs in Activities.
Activities — a menu of things you might do
Activities are a menu of things you might do when you’re not working. Options, not commitments. Examples: “yoga class,” “long walk,” “read,” “meditation,” “draw.”
They appear as a column of tappable tiles. Tap one, it logs an ActivityLog
with the current timestamp. That’s it. An unused activity isn’t a miss — the
menu just sits there until you want it.
Activities surface in your daily lookback as a record of what you actually picked off the menu that day. They are not tracked as “skipped” when unlogged — they’re options, not obligations. The lookback won’t shame you for not doing yoga.
Choosing between them
Ask yourself: if I don’t do this on a day it’s “scheduled,” is that a miss I want to see in my lookback?
- Yes, that would be a miss → routine.
- No, it’s just an option I might pick → activity.
Day end time
By default a “day” ends at midnight local. If you’re a night owl and consider 3am Wednesday to still be “Tuesday,” set a day-end time in Profile. A routine item done at 2am uses the right date for tracking; your lookbacks bucket events the way your life actually works.
Mindfulness mode
In Profile, there’s a mode toggle: Regular / Overtime / Mindfulness. When Mindfulness is on, the main loop hides all but the highest-urgency items. You see the mindfulness view prominently. The idea: you’re in a state where you don’t want a wall of notifications — you want to know what actually matters and what you’re doing for yourself.
Toggle back to Regular when you’re ready to process.