One fig per week — a small alien plant, rendered on the rear Glyph Matrix of a Nothing Phone (4a) Pro, whose shape is a truthful record of how the week was lived. Six readings a day are its only weather. At week's end the fig is pressed into an archive, like a botanist pressing a specimen, and a new seed is set.
The fig never judges; it only records.
the three golden weeks — same organism, different lives. a good week is not a high score; it is a taller plant.
One APK, three surfaces, one organism:
| unit | surface | job | material |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOOM | Glyph Matrix (AOD toy) | weaves — grows the living fig | light |
| PROBE | home-screen widget | asks — takes the day's six readings | voice |
| HERBARIUM | the app | keeps — archives pressed figs | ink |
Loom glows, Probe asks, Herbarium presses. A pressed fig never glows; the live fig never carries color. Flip the phone face down and the fig is awake; growth blooms in cell by cell on the first flip after a day is sealed — growth must be witnessed, never animated to an empty room. On Sunday night the pressing ceremony plays: the week replayed fast, the light drained into the soil, one ember in the dark, a new seed.
this week and the drawer · a pressed plate · the key · probe, mid-morning, two answers in
The fig is a pure deterministic function — fig = grow(weekSeed, readings).
Same data, same fig, always. The seed contributes organic jitter only;
data dominates form. Each reading shapes exactly one channel, never
blended, all scales 1–5:
mood → internode length more segments, better day
sleep duration → leaves pair ≥ 7h · one 5–7h · bare below
bedtime → tropism early nights climb, late nights droop
body 1–5 → thorn, downward physical effort, grown at 4 and above
mind 1–5 → thorn, skyward mental effort, grown at 4 and above
screen budget → drupe under budget bears the only near-max light
a missed day → scar one dim cell, straight up. honest gaps.
Growth is append-only and lacy (a cell never accepts more than two neighbors — cramped weeks make cramped figs), and a bud whose tip is shaded relocates down the week's wood like an axillary shoot, so no lived day is ever silently erased. A fully-missed week still presses: a scar-column specimen, season BARREN, no tint. The archive is honest.
Three golden weeks are pinned as ASCII snapshots in core-morphology —
changing the grammar fails a test and is a product decision, not a
refactor:
D W t W W · · · · · · · · D W
· · l W · · W W D · · · · · · · · · · · · · · l · W D
· · · l W l · l · W t · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · t W W
· · · · W · · t l W l · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · x ·
· · · · D W · · W D W · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · W · ·
· · · · l W l l W l · · · · · · · · · · · · · W · · · · · · · · · · l W · l ·
· · · · · W · · W · · · · · · · · · · · · · x · · · · · · · · · · · t W · · ·
· · · · · · W D · · · · · · · · · · · · · · W · · · · · · · · · t · W · l · ·
· · · · · l W l t · · · · · · · · · · · · x W · · · · · · · · · l D · · · · ·
· · · · · W · · · · · · · · · · · W W · · · · · · · · · W · · · ·
· · · · · W · · · · · · · · · · W · · · · · · · · · · W · l · · ·
· ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ · · ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ · · ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ·
· · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
AURIC ASHFALL MIXED
figly-reference-plate.svg (repo root) is the original hand-authored
style bar — dot sizing, press jitter, label typography, tint dosage. Its
fig predates the 1–5 scales and was drawn freehand (its wood is not
step-connected), so morphological truth lives in the goldens; visual
truth lives in the reference plate. When in doubt, match the plate.
Each pressed week takes one tint from its mean day-rating — a climate,
never a verdict: ASHFALL #A3653F · OVERCAST #7C8B94 · TEMPERATE
#8FA381 · VERDANT #5FA98B · AURIC #D6B36A. The tint appears in
exactly three places — drupe dots, the season tick, the specimen-ID
underline — and nowhere else. Bad weeks aren't red; ashfall is
rust-beautiful.
The manifest never asks for INTERNET, and the network-flavored
permissions its libraries try to smuggle in are stripped. Verify:
aapt dump permissions app-release.apk
No analytics, no crash reporting, no network stack. Optional and opt-in:
usage access (screen budget + sleep suggestion — everything degrades
gracefully to manual without it), coarse location (the COLLECTED city
on plates), notifications (a silent 21:30 reminder, default off). Figs
may move house to a new phone via device transfer; they are excluded
from cloud backup.
JAVA_HOME=<jdk17> ./gradlew :app:assembleRelease
./gradlew :core-morphology:test # the grammar + golden weeks
./gradlew :core-morphology:renderGoldens # press the goldens to /tmp/figly-plates
Modules: :core-morphology (pure Kotlin, zero Android) · :data (Room,
the press lifecycle) · :glyph (Loom) · :widget (Probe, Glance) ·
:app (Herbarium — Compose foundation only, no Material, no ripples;
the press indication is a 5 % dim).
Debug builds carry demo flora for screenshots and development:
adb shell am start -n app.figly/.MainActivity --ez plant_demo true
Release builds carry a no-op twin. The release APK is debug-signed for sideloading; this is a personal instrument, not a storefront.
- Take the APK from Releases
and sideload it — or
./deploy.sh, which grows the APK and plants it over USB, or over Wi-Fi once the phone has answered before. - First launch shows The Key — how to read a fig — offers to place Probe, and deep-links the Glyph Toys manager.
- Settings → Glyph Interface → Flip to Glyph → Always-on Glyph Toy → figly. Face down, the fig is awake.
- Spec:
FIGLY-SPEC.md— the build bible this implementation answers to, including its Taste Law. - Glyph Matrix SDK vendored in
libs/from Nothing's GlyphMatrix-Developer-Kit (license alongside). - Type: Space Grotesk
and JetBrains Mono, both
SIL OFL — texts in
licenses/.