A simple way to picture it
“My reading year” starts on the day you began. “Book club: Thursday” is a separate Countdown event.
Set it up, step by step
- Pick a clear start: beginning a new reading routine, opening a long book, or starting a shared reading project.
- Add that date in Daystreak with a title such as “A year of reading” or the name of your project.
- Use a widget as a gentle reminder. If your goal is to read every day, choose daily check-in mode instead of continuous counting. Keep pages and finished books in your reading journal.
- For a book-club meeting or library return date, use Countdown with that future date and an appropriate reminder.
Make it work for your everyday
The counter tells you how long the project has existed, not how many consecutive days you have read. A missed session does not need to erase the project’s history.
If you want to remember several books, create separate events with clear titles rather than changing the start date of one event repeatedly.
A return-date countdown is a personal reminder. Check the library’s actual due date and renewal rules separately.
A couple of useful answers
Does the counter know whether I read today?
It does not detect reading automatically. Choose daily check-in mode and mark completed reading days yourself; use a separate log for pages and session lengths.
Can I count down to a book release?
Yes. Use Countdown with the announced release date, and update it if the publisher changes the date.
Try your date before you begin
Use the date calculator to see the days between two dates, then keep that moment in the app.
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