Establish the Five-Minute Page Turn
The primary daily action should generally be completable in five minutes.
Capture
The primary daily action should generally be completable in five minutes.
Why
- low activation energy;
- meaningful enough to produce evidence;
- compatible with busy families;
- easy to market;
- avoids the all-or-nothing practice mentality;
- supports repeated use;
- allows continuation without requiring it.
Everyone has five minutes. The app helps make those five minutes count.
Why-Not
Exact timer behavior, action-generation rules, and completion thresholds.
Commit
Decision: The primary daily action should generally be completable in five minutes.
Five minutes is a minimum commitment, not a cap.
Everyone has five minutes. The app helps make those five minutes count.
Public boundary: This ADR publishes the judgment and product boundary while withholding exact prompts, routes, thresholds, schemas, tests, and other reproducible implementation details where applicable.
Confidence: Medium-high for public architecture; implementation details remain private and subject to launch evidence.
Timestamp
2026-07-17