What counts as a visit in NoTestudo?

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First week my gym goal hit 3 of 3, and I never opened the app at the gym. The visits just showed up on their own. Honestly the best part was not having one more thing to remember. Next goal: keep it going through midterms.

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NoTestudo is built on one idea: your goals are made of places. You pick a goal, attach the places that decide it, and the app does the remembering. There’s no button to press when you get to the gym and nothing to fill in at night. This guide explains what the app actually counts as a visit, so the numbers on your Home screen never feel like a mystery.

How a visit gets recorded

With your permission, NoTestudo notices when you arrive at a place and when you leave, even when the app is closed.¹ Each visit has an arrival time, a departure time and the place it happened at. If that place belongs to one of your goals, the visit counts toward that goal on its own.

That’s the whole trick. You don’t open the app at the library. You go to the library, and later your goal shows the time you spent there.

Which places count

• Places in a goal. A place can be a chain, one address, or a friend’s house. Only places attached to a goal count toward it.
• Places you want to visit more. For goals you’re building, like getting to the gym, each visit is progress.
• Places you want to visit less. For goals you’re cutting back on, a visit is recorded for that goal, and a day without one is a clear day.

Why short stops don’t count

Location isn’t perfect, and life involves a lot of walking past things. So NoTestudo uses a simple rule: stays under 3 minutes look like passing by, so they don’t count toward your goals. Idling at a red light outside a drive-thru isn’t a visit. Cutting through a parking lot isn’t one either.

When the app gets one wrong

Sometimes a real stop is short, like grabbing a coffee in two minutes. Sometimes a visit gets recorded that you didn’t make. Both are fixable:

1. Open the visit from your goal or your day.
2. Tap Count This Visit if you actually stopped, or Don’t Count This Visit if you didn’t.
3. The fix can change that day’s result for the goal, so your week stays honest.

What NoTestudo can’t see

Location never proves what you were doing. NoTestudo can’t see studying itself, but it can notice time at the library. It can’t see a workout, but it can notice an hour at the rec center. And it never fills a gap with zero: a day without tracking is unknown, not a bad day.

For things a visit can’t see, like cooking dinner at home or calling family, the app has quick check-ins instead.

Where visits show up

• Home shows your goals and a countdown to your next clear day.
• Goals shows each goal’s weekly target and how this week is going.
• Time invested adds up confirmed time at the places for a goal.

If you join a group and turn on sharing, members see your streak and on-track days, never your places or visits.² There’s more on that in the Groups overview.

Frequently asked questions

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