v1.2 is out. It's a quieter release than the number suggests, and that's on purpose. After the first version shipped, the same note kept coming back from people: focusing in the moment feels good, but a week later nobody could remember where the time actually went. So this update is built around two things — a focus calendar that shows you where your days went, and an achievement system that gives the long, quiet grind a little feedback. Neither is a new bottle skin. They're the infrastructure underneath "collecting light," the part that lets you look back, and more usefully, keep going week after week.
The focus calendar: seeing where a week actually went
The v1.2 focus calendar lays out each day's focus records in order — how many lights you lit, and whether you ran the 25, 50, or 90-minute track — so a whole week reads at a glance instead of from memory. The empty days stay visible on purpose. I left them in because admitting "I didn't focus today" is the honest start of a review, not something to hide. When the gaps are there without shame, you start asking better questions about why they happened. Under the hood I lost about two days to a stubborn problem: I wanted the calendar and the Pomodoro timer to animate together live as a session ran, but on lower-end phones the screen started dropping frames and felt sluggish. In the end I rendered after the session saved to storage. The boring solution held steady — and shipping something smooth on a three-year-old phone matters more to me than a clever animation.
The achievement system: feedback for the long game
The other half of v1.2 is the achievement system. Let me say plainly what it isn't: it's not a leaderboard. No ranking, no quiet pressure to out-focus strangers. It just lights a small badge when you hit certain nodes — a seven-day streak, one unbroken 90-minute session, your first ten sessions. What I actually wanted to build was a way to be seen by yourself. The streak you notice is yours alone. And share cards have supported one-tap generation for a while now: post your day's light bottle to a friend and invite them to collect light alongside you. That works better than any slogan, because it's an invitation, not a brag. Taken together, v1.2 was never about impressing. It was about giving the quiet daily act of focusing a surface you can stand on.
What I left out — and what's next
I'll be straight about the things I skipped. A few of you asked for cross-device sync; right now that's still limited by the no-sign-up design, and I didn't want to bolt on something flaky just to tick a box. Next up is making the calendar smarter — a month view, clearer streaks, maybe a gentle nudge on the days you'd usually skip. If you're new to how the light itself evolves, the glass bottle stage is where everyone begins; the white light there is just the start of a much longer tower. As always, I'd rather ship two things that actually hold than ten that wobble. v1.2 is the two things done right.