September 22, 2026 (1d ago)

The one nudge a day, not five you learn to ignore

Most apps solve "how do we get people to come back" by sending more notifications. That works for a while and then it doesn't — the moment a notification stops feeling relevant to you specifically, you mute it, and every push after that is wasted, including the ones that would have actually mattered.

Flocus runs the opposite way: at most one nudge a day, picked by priority, and often none at all. Every day, for every student, it checks a short list of things in order — is a streak about to break tonight with no freezes left to save it, is there a real backlog of material due for recall, has it been a few days since the last session — and sends the first one that's actually true. If none of them are true, nothing gets sent. A booked tutoring session gets its own reminder around the time it's due, independent of that daily check, because "your 6pm session is starting soon" is a different kind of message than "you haven't studied in three days" and deserves to arrive on its own clock.

The point of doing it this way is that a Flocus notification is supposed to mean something when it arrives. "Don't lose your 12-day streak" only works if it's true, specific, and rare enough that you trust it the next time it shows up. That trust is the actual asset — it's worth more than a higher notification volume, and it's the reason the one-a-day cap isn't a growth-team compromise, it's the whole point.