Building · Drinking More Water
A water tracker you can talk to instead of tapping eight times a day
Hydration tracking fails for a dull and entirely practical reason: hitting the target requires eight separate interactions with an app, spread across a day when you are busy, and the sixth tap is where everyone quits. Once logging is something you say in passing — or something a routine does for you — the habit stops depending on your patience with a plus button.
Why drinking more water is hard to track
Not hard to do — that's a separate problem. These are the reasons the tracking itself tends to give out first, which is usually what takes the habit with it.
- Eight taps a day is more friction than the habit is worth
- A fixed daily target ignores training, heat and hangovers
- You forget on exactly the busy days when you're most dehydrated
- The counter resets at midnight and teaches you nothing about the pattern
Worth tracking
- Volume through the day against a target
- Days that should have a higher target — training, heat, travel
- When the gaps fall, usually a specific part of the afternoon
- Whether it tracks with headaches or energy dips
Cadence
Logged in passing, a few times a day
What progress looks like
Two weeks over target, and a week where the afternoon gap disappears
In practice
Log it in the sentence you'd have said anyway
Every operation in the app is a tool the chat can call, so drinking more water gets recorded — with its context — in the time it takes to think it.
Called 4 tools
log_check_in(habit: "water", volume_ml: 1500)adjust_target(habit: "water", reason: "training day", to_ml: 3000)get_progress(habit: "water", period: "today")find_pattern(metric: "shortfall", group_by: "time_of_day")
Every figure here was counted from your check-ins. The model picked the tools and filled in the arguments — it never estimates a streak or invents a number.
And then ask
The question your history can answer
Weeks of check-ins about drinking more water contain a genuine answer to questions you've been guessing at. The only thing that was ever missing was something willing to read them.
Ask in plain language; the model turns it into queries against your record and shows the numbers behind the answer, so you can tell a real pattern from a coincidence in eleven data points.
Called 3 tools
get_history(habit: "drink-more-water", window: "6m")find_pattern(group_by: "context")compare_periods(metric: "completion")
Every figure is a count or an average over your own check-ins. The model chose which comparisons to run; it produced none of the numbers.
What it does
Set up around drinking more water
The same mechanics as every other habit, pointed at what actually matters for this one.
Targets per week, not per day
Three a week is a real goal and a daily checkbox can't hold it. Rest days get recorded as rest rather than counted as failures.
Streaks that survive a life
A missed day is a missed day. The streak that matters is the pattern over months, and one interruption shouldn't erase the evidence of it.
Partial credit
Ten minutes still counts, and gets logged as ten minutes. Half-measures are how most habits actually survive a bad week.
What predicts the days you show up
Days that should have a higher target — training, heat, travel — captured alongside the tick, because that's where the explanation for a good month usually turns out to be.
Measured against your other habits
Ask whether this one is propping up another, or being crowded out by it. Cross-habit questions on request.
Caught at day three
A gap is recoverable early and much less so at three weeks. One nudge when it's still the former.
Early access
Start with drinking more water
Tell us where it's gone wrong before and we'll set it up with you — measuring the right thing, at a cadence you'll keep.
- Founding accounts lock their price for life
- No card, no trial clock, no streak-guilt notifications
- Export everything you've logged whenever you want
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Reading More
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Meditating Daily
Logged straight after sitting
Sleeping Better
Two lines at night, one in the morning
Journaling
One line logged after writing, wherever you write
Track drinking more water by talking about it
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