The flower is slowbloom's signature way of picturing your writing. Instead of a number to chase, you watch something quietly grow. It's meant to be calm and a little beautiful, not another thing to keep score of.
Every entry is a petal
Each time you write, your entry becomes a petal. As petals gather, your current flower fills in. The mood colour you chose for each entry shows up in its petal, so the flower slowly takes on the colours of how your days have felt.
Choose your flower's shape
Your flower can take on a real bloom — daisy, rose, tulip, sunflower, or cherry blossom. Tap the centre of your flower to change its shape, and each month remembers its own, so looking back through the garden is a little gallery of changing blooms.
Your garden
When a flower is complete, it joins your garden — a gallery of the flowers you've grown across your weeks and periods of writing. The garden is also where your time capsules grow, as little plants counting down to the day they bloom. Looking back through it is a gentle visual record of where you've been, no reading required.
Gentle, optional streaks
If you like a little encouragement, slowbloom can count the weeks you've shown up — gently, with a grace day each week, so one quiet day never undoes your bloom. It's off unless you turn it on in Settings, and there are no badges, scores, or leaderboards. Nothing breaks if you miss a day: a flower that fills in slowly is still a flower, and the garden simply reflects whatever rhythm is honest for you.
Tip: if a week was quiet, that's fine. A sparse flower isn't a failure. It's just a true picture of a slower stretch.
Other ways to look back
If you'd rather read than browse petals, you can also see your entries as a plain list or on a calendar. The flower and garden are one view of your writing, not the only one. You can read more about finding entries in Moods and tags.