Nightstand

The idea

I wanted a short routine each night: tick off the day’s habits, note tomorrow’s tasks, and see how my sleep and recovery line up with what I did.

How it works

Nightstand is a single web page with its own small database. Each habit has the days of the week it applies to, and some carry a plan with sets and targets for each weekday. Closing a day saves its score and a note, and the page keeps streaks and trends over the weeks.

Getting the data in

There was no ready-made way to get my WHOOP recovery data into the page. I set up a small bridge, a Node.js program with no outside libraries, that signs in to WHOOP’s API and hands each day’s recovery, heart-rate variability, resting heart rate, sleep and strain to the page, which saves them by month. A link to Strava is set up to tick off the workout habit when a workout is logged.

The look

The first version had cards in navy and periwinkle, and it looked like every AI-made app. I changed it to look like a terminal log: one monospace font, amber on near-black, [x] checkboxes, and a streak grid drawn with block characters.

What I’d do next

Learn which habits actually move my recovery, now that there are weeks of data to compare.