Friction + Flow

Systemores

About this app

Architecture Over Prompting. Stop explaining your day. Start architecting it.

Most time-trackers require too much cognitive effort. They demand typing, category sorting, or chatting with bloated AI diaries—adding more friction to an already fragmented day.

Friction + Flow is a stark, rapid-capture behavioral instrument built for pure human agency. Collapsed into a tricolor matrix, it enables you to capture operational blockages, autopilot states, and deep-focus peaks in under 200 milliseconds.

No accounts. No server-side analytics. No cloud telemetry. Your focus patterns remain physically sandboxed on your device.

THE TRICOLOR FRAMEWORK

The core client interface is engineered to eliminate decision paralysis. By collapsing behavioral logging into a physical tricolor matrix, inputs become tactile reflexes:

FRICTION (Red): Capture operational bottlenecks, clunky toolchains, administrative delays, and procedural friction as they occur. If it drags your output velocity, record it.

NOISE (Yellow): Log autopilot states, digital distraction alert loops, passive scrolling, and context-switching. Pinpoint exactly when your attention gets shattered.

FLOW (Blue): Mark peaks of absolute concentration, deep focus wins, successful complex commits, and streamlined workflow executions. Protect the sanctuary of your momentum.

DUAL-PHASE TAPPING PIPELINE

To ensure logging never interrupts your momentum, Friction + Flow runs on a zero-latency, split-execution engine:

Phase 1: Synchronous Loop (~0ms): Physical device haptics fire immediately (Error double-pulse for Red, Light tick for Yellow, Success pulse for Blue) and commit the event instantly to your local database while setting location fields to NULL. You are free to lock your screen immediately.

Phase 2: Asynchronous Backfill: A non-blocking background thread queries foreground location permissions, checks cached low-battery location values, and executes a local SQLite UPDATE statement to attach coordinates offline.

ON-DEVICE ANALYTICS MATRIX

Deconstruct your habits directly on-device with custom, private mathematical visualizations:

Weekly Activity Heatmap: A clean 7-day x 3-row grid representing your week. Cell opacity scales dynamically based on maximum hourly count thresholds: Opacity = 0.2 + (Cell / Max) * 0.8. Click row headers to dim categories and filter your maps instantly.

Density-Clustered Flow Map: Evaluates your geotagged SQLite logs to plot spatial centroids. The map automatically resolves overlapping metrics using priority tie-breaker rules: Flow (Blue) > Noise (Yellow) > Friction (Red).

ABSOLUTE DATA SOVEREIGNTY

Friction + Flow operates as a secure offline sandbox:

SQLite Quarantine: All logs are written to frictionless.db inside your device's sandboxed document folder using expo-sqlite. Other apps cannot access it, and it never uploads to external servers.

Total Anonymity: No names, no email logins, no advertising IDs, and no background tracking. If you delete the app, your database is permanently wiped.

Triple-Stream Exports: Extract your data entirely on your own terms:

Raw Data (CSV): Download an RFC 4180-compliant spreadsheet (systemores_flow_logs.csv).

Performance Report (Image): Share a watermarked PNG Performance Report with institutional styling.

AI Flow Diagnostics: Package your last 100 logs with highly structured cognitive prompts pre-configured for ChatGPT and Claude. Select between three audit specializations (Weekly Momentum, Friction Root-Cause, or Habit & Autopilot Loops).

Privacy-Default AI Policy: GPS coordinates are strictly redacted from the AI diagnostics output by default to protect your physical location history. You retain complete choice to opt-in to location coordinates when mapping geographic friction hotspots.

Designed and governed under the SYSTEMORES institutional behavioral architecture standard.