Practices, choose, do, log

A practice is the thing you actually do: meditate, move, breathe, journal. Logging your practice is the heart of Frequency, it is how showing up turns into progress.

Two ways to have a practice

• Your Circle's practice. A Circle Host sets what the Circle is practicing. Open your Circle and you will see "This week's practice" with a button to log it.
• Your own practice. Not in a Circle yet, or want something extra? Go to Practices, browse the library, and adopt one for yourself.

Log it

Each practice you've adopted sits in your practices row, one tight line each with a View practice link to open its page. How you mark it done depends on the practice, and the button tells you which at a glance:

• A timed practice shows Start Practice with a little timer icon. Tap it and Mindless opens to run it; finishing the timer is what logs the day.
• A log-it practice (an action or a reflection, no timer) shows a check-off: tap Log it and it's done in one tap.

Either way, marking any practice done, your own or your Circle's, earns Zaps (the in-person, real-world currency). It also:

• keeps your streak alive, and
• counts you as active for the week.

Once it's done, the row reads Logged today. Tapped it by mistake? Hit Undo to un-log it, same day only. After today the log is locked in.

You can log a practice once per day. Do it for a few days in a row and the streak starts to pull you back, which is exactly the point.

One timer, two modes. Mindless has Be Still for a sit and Get Moving for a walk, run, yoga, strength, stretch or play. A timed practice can come preset by whoever built it, its mode, its length, its warm-up, even a full workout like Tabata, so it opens ready to go and you just start.

Adopt for a stretch, or for good

When you adopt a practice, you pick how long you are taking it on: 2 weeks, 4 weeks (what most people pick), 8 weeks (long enough to make it stick), or ongoing. You can also note when you plan to do it ("After my morning coffee"), which makes it far more likely to happen. Your card shows where you stand, Week 2 of 4 · Day 9 of 28, from day one.

When a commitment completes, you get the note and the choice: go again, keep it going for good, or let it rest. Your history stays yours either way.

Your list holds up to five practices you adopted yourself, on purpose: the ones you keep are the ones that happen. Taking on a sixth offers a swap, pick one to set down and the new one takes its place. Practices a Journey gives you do not count against the five; they come and go with the Journey. If you host a Circle, you can change the Circle's practice whenever the focus shifts.

Make it your own

You can shape practices, not just pick them:

• Create one with Vera. On Practices, hit Create a practice to open the builder. Answer a few quick questions (who it is for, the act itself, what you want out of it, how often, and how long) and Vera drafts the whole thing: a name, a hook, the steps, a cadence, a Pillar, and how it is done, a stillness timer, a moving timer, or a simple log, with a warm-up line, shown before you create it. Review it, change anything, and create; every part of the timer still tunes in the editor. Already wrote your practice somewhere else? Paste it and Vera shapes it into the same fields. Want to start from scratch instead? Pick "Skip, I'll build it myself" to go straight to the editor. Any signed-in member can create a practice. A free Member publishes a few, and Crew publishes as many as they like. Any member can adopt a practice and log it.
• Edit yours. Any practice you created shows an Edit button. Change its name, summary, full "how to" guide, cadence, Pillar, category, and icon by hand, or use Edit with Vera to make a change in plain language ("make it a morning sit," "cut it to five minutes").
• Set up how it runs. In the editor, How it's done picks the timer: Mindless (a quiet Be Still sit, and you choose the flavour, Meditate, Breathe, Stillness, Ritual, Journal or Just Log), Get Moving (a walk, run, yoga, stretch, play, or a full strength workout with the work, rest and rounds set), or Log it (a one-tap check-off, no timer). You can add a warm-up message and count-in, and lock the length so it runs exactly as you set it. Short notes in the editor explain each choice, and it all ships preset so the member just taps and starts.
• Remix one from the library. See a practice that is close but not quite yours? Hit Remix to make your own copy and edit it freely. The idea is to put your own spin on it, a new angle or your own niche, not to repost the same thing. The original stays exactly as it was for everyone else.

(Editing covers the content and cadence. What a log is worth in Zaps is set by the team so the Quest stays fair: most Quest practices are valued by how often you do them, not how hard they are.)

Claim a starter template

Many library practices are templates: a proven starting point you can claim and make your own. Open one and hit Claim & make it yours:

1. Tell Vera what you want from it and when you can realistically do it.
2. Vera shapes a personal version: a name, a cadence that fits your week, and concrete steps for you. (No Vera handy? Skip and tweak it yourself.)
3. Review, edit anything, and claim it. You get your own private copy, it is adopted onto your list, and you earn Zaps for claiming your first one.

From there it is yours: edit it anytime, log it daily, and, if you want, share it back to the community library for others to find. A practice you build starts as a private draft, only you can see it, and the editor's Library section always says where it stands: private draft, in review, or live. When it is ready, hit Submit to the library and it goes to the community leaders for a quick review. Once they approve it, it appears in the library for everyone; until then it stays private to you.

What each practice shows

Open any practice and you get its own page: a header image, the full "how to do it" write-up and steps, a short summary, its Pillar and sub-category, and a stats band: the reward per log, the cadence, how many people are practising it, and how many times it has been logged.

Each practice also has a category (movement, holistic health, spirituality, creative, human relating, business support) and a cadence hint (daily, weekly, as needed). The library is browsable by what you are drawn to.

If a practice is part of any Journeys or is being run by any Circles, the page shows a "Used in" section linking to them, a quick way to find a Journey built around it or a Circle already practising it together.

Find your way around the library

The library is organized so you can find practices that fit you, even as it grows to thousands:

• Search. Use the search box to find a practice by name or description.
• Pillars and sub-categories. Everything sits under one of the four Pillars (Mind, Body, Spirit, Expression), and within a Pillar you can narrow to a sub-category (for example Body → Cardio, Strength, Mobility).
• Tags. Practices carry tags like morning, quick, outdoor, or social so you can spot what suits the moment. When you create or edit your own practice, add your own tags to help others find it.
• Sort. Sort the full practice library by Trending (what people are doing lately), All-time, or New. Trending is the default, so the practices the community is loving rise to the top. The sort applies to the full library only; the Best of the library list below keeps its own ranking.
• Best of the library. Above the full library sits one ranked list of the community's top practices and Journeys, with All, Practices, and Journeys tabs. Tap the heart on a card to rate it. Ratings, adoptions, and real use are what move a card up. (This used to be its own Library page. Old Library links now open Practices.)

Rewards vary by practice

What a log is worth depends on the practice. Most Quest practices are valued by their cadence, how often you do them: Daily (10 Zaps), a few times a week (15 Zaps), or Weekly (25 Zaps). The rarer the ask, the more each log gives back, so the value comes from showing up to the rhythm, not from how hard the practice is. Some other practices instead carry a weight class (Light 8, Standard 12, Heavy 15 Zaps). Either way, each practice page shows its reward up front, so you know what logging it is worth before you commit, and logging any practice always earns Zaps.