A skill in EvyOS is the record of having practised. Log a session with how long it ran and what kind of practice it was, and the hours accumulate next to the level you are at and the level you are going for.
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Most learning apps ask what you want to get good at. This one asks what you did on Tuesday. Everything a skill knows about you comes from sessions you logged, which is why the number at the top can be trusted.
Every practice session carries a date and a duration. 25 minutes counts as 25 minutes, so the short sessions you would otherwise not bother recording are the ones that build the total.
Each session says what kind of practice it was. Reading about typography and setting type are both worth doing and are not the same work, and a log that flattens them is a log you stop believing.
Where you are now and where you are heading, so progress is a distance rather than a feeling. Beginner to intermediate is a different piece of work from advanced to expert, and the skill says which one you are in.
The course, the book, the three articles you keep meaning to finish, kept on the skill itself and marked off as you get through them. Not another bookmark folder nobody opens.
Half a year of practice as one picture. The dense stretches are obvious and so are the gaps, which is the part most people are quietly hoping not to see.
A habit is the commitment to practise; the skill is the evidence that you did. Keep both and you can see whether the routine you built is actually producing hours.
Open a skill and the whole history is on one screen: total hours logged, the current streak of practice days, how far along you are toward the level you set, the resources still unread, and half a year of sessions as a graph. It is the answer to a question most people cannot answer about their own learning, which is simply how much.
Nobody gets better because they tracked something. They get better because they practised on a Wednesday when they did not feel like it. So the habit sits in the same account as the skill: the habit carries the schedule and the streak, the skill carries the hours. One tells you whether you are still turning up, the other tells you what it has amounted to.
Say what you are learning, what level you are at now, and what level you are aiming for. Add the course or the book as a resource while you are there.
A schedule you would actually keep, not the one you wish you kept. Four evenings beats seven, because the streak survives a bad week.
Minutes and an activity type, and that is the whole ritual. The 15 minute sessions are the ones that decide what the total looks like in a year.
Anki and the other spaced repetition tools are excellent at drilling recall, and EvyOS has nothing that competes with them. This tracks the practice around the drilling: the hours, the sessions, the resources and the level. If you use both, log the Anki session here as practice and let each tool do the job it is good at.
See the plans →No syllabus, no term dates and nobody marking the work, so the log is the only thing standing between six months of study and six months of intending to study.
Typography, an instrument, a language, a lift. Progress arrives too slowly to feel, and the only reliable way to notice it is to have written down what you did while it was happening.
A viva, a certification, a language exam in March. The target level is the exam, the hours are the only lever you control, and the graph tells you in week 3 rather than week 11.
Create a skill, set the level you are aiming at, and log the first session tonight, however short it is.
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