一息
Ten seconds of breathing before you open an app.
一息 (yixi) does two things. Breathe: ten seconds before an app like Instagram opens. Steer: the three things that matter most in the weeks ahead sit on one page, Today, one tap from being done. Either half works on its own, and they share one account.
This page was opened inside the built-in browser of some app. Reading is fine, but the setup step is not — a built-in browser will not let a page jump to another app, and setup depends on exactly that. Tap the “⋯” in the top-right corner and choose “Open in browser”.
Ten seconds in, the page offers you “Never mind” first, and only a little later “Open it anyway”. The order is deliberate — most of the time you find the tap was nothing but the habit in your thumb.
How it works
- The iPhone Shortcuts app comes here first when you open an app, and asks whether to stop you.
- If the answer is yes, it jumps to the breathing page, where nothing can be tapped while the ring fills.
- Choosing “Open it anyway” lets the app through for a minute and a half, so you are not stopped again the moment you land in it.
What it records
Only the time, which app, and whether you went on or put it down. After a while you can see how many times a week you were stopped, and how many of those you walked away from.
On privacy
Signing up takes an email address and a password. Nothing is ever sent to the address and it is never verified; it is only the name you sign in with next time.
The real identity is a token, and the Shortcut uses it to know who you are. It is stored encrypted on the server, so you can still read it back after signing in — the price is that it leaks along with the database if the key leaks at the same time. That is the trade made for “findable again after you forget it”, and whether it is worth it is yours to judge.
Your records are yours alone. Whoever handed out the token sees aggregate counts and not one single entry — otherwise nobody would really use this.
You can check every line above for yourself: the code is open source. If you would rather not leave this kind of data on somebody else’s server, follow the README and deploy your own, running inside the Cloudflare free tier, at no cost.
What it looks like
That is the one above. Nothing on the page can be tapped while the ring fills; ten seconds in, “Never mind” appears first. See a whole one: InkBreath
Getting started
Already have a token somebody sent you? Attach an email address and a password to it rather than signing up again —
signing up again hands you a new one, and the old records are out of reach.
The step-by-step for setting it up on an iPhone is under Guide, once you have signed in.
Source · github.com/Defiabell/yixi
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