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Simple Mercies

Notice the good. Do some good.

A small, quiet Android app with four parts:

  • The Jar. Write down one good thing a day and drop it in a glass jar that fills with paper slips. Shake your phone (or tap the jar) to pull out an old one. Browse everything by month.
  • Kindness. One small kindness to try each day: Done, Another, or "Not today, and that's all right." No streaks. Every kindness you finish is kept.
  • Prayers. Write a prayer and who it's for, then send it to them with one tap as a text or as a linen-and-flowers picture. Mark prayers answered and keep a record of how. Anything longer than X's 280 character limit gets a warning first (unless you've said you have a blue checkmark), with the option to send it as a picture instead.
  • Daily Notepad. A dropdown for Thoughts, a To-do list and a Dream diary. Tick off a to-do and a heart flies out of the note, fills the screen, and fades away.

Linen, rose and sage backgrounds with pressed flowers, a Dusk night mode, IM Fell English and EB Garamond type, and square buttons. Home screen widget for today's kindness, optional evening and morning reminders, and a plain-text export of everything you've written.

No account, no ads, no tracking, no internet permission.

Install

Grab SimpleMercies-1.2.apk from this repo and open it on your phone.

Building

Release builds need mercies.keystore in the project root (not included here), then gradle assembleRelease. tools/linen.py regenerates the linen and pressed-flower artwork.

Fonts: IM Fell English and EB Garamond, SIL Open Font License.

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Description
Gratitude jar, a daily kindness, and a prayer notepad you can send from. Offline Android app, linen and pressed flowers.
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