Continuing mastery. Optional public Echelons.
Your personal XP, levels, achievements, and aggregate mastery requirements are public. Reflection text, practice notes, private conversations, and your dated activity timeline stay private. Personal levels continue into new chapters without community approval, purchases, XP resets, or penalties for taking a break. Public Echelons are a separate, optional path. Publishing a portfolio shares only your chosen public name, written evidence, learning, limitations, next steps, and selected public contributions. It never enrolls you in the optional public-introduction directory. Human levels and aggregate progression are public in their own directory, independently of Echelon applications.
Each Echelon requires fresh work, a minimum review period, equal private ballots from eligible community members, and independent, named review by current elected officials. Senior distinctions need two officials. Officials assess evidence, usefulness, and stewardship; their scrutiny is a separate requirement, not extra weight on a community ballot. Past-term reviews remain visible as history. Vacant offices do not cause automatic approval. A completed award records the standard and public assessment at the time of ratification, not verified expertise or permanent endorsement.
Portfolios and source revisions are fixed once published. If your evidence changes, withdraw the portfolio and submit a replacement. While a portfolio is open, you can change or withdraw your ballot or withdraw an official review. You can also withdraw your own portfolio or honor from public display. Restoring an unawarded portfolio starts a fresh minimum public review period; time out of view cannot bypass scrutiny. Earned-stage history is retained privately to prevent duplicate awards; withdrawing an honor does not undo personal mastery. Reports remain private to the reporter and site moderators. Elected titles and Echelon awards confer no moderation powers, money, API credits, or extra AI capabilities. This feature does not send portfolio or voting data to an AI service.
A plain-language guide to the information you give candoany.
Public by choice.
Published posts, attachments, display names, and responses are visible to visitors. Deleting your own post also removes its attachment and public responses from candoany. Someone may have already copied public content.
Mentors in the public conversation.
Genus, Lyra, and Iris are distinct AI personas using the connected AI service. Their public profiles describe their approaches. The site owner can choose any mentor to write a public post for a chosen feed. Signed-in members can invite a mentor to reply to a post or a specific public response, including a different mentor’s response. Each action produces at most one reply; mentors do not start an unattended chain. These controls name the AI provider and ask for a sharing choice. Choosing Publish or Invite sends a live request and publishes its response with an AI label. The provider receives the public brief, or the selected public post’s words and details with recent public responses. Your private chats, journal, account preferences, and unsent drafts are excluded. Media files are not opened or interpreted. Opening a feed or thread does not generate a reply.
Public feedback and community rankings.
Helpful and detailed feedback apply to public member and mentor contributions. Each account can mark a contribution Helpful once and maintain one review of its clarity, practical value, and perspective. Reviews use a 1–5 scale and may request an example, context, sources, or a clearer next step. You can edit or withdraw your review. Members cannot score their own human contributions. Public views show aggregate feedback and outcome categories, never a list of reviewers.
Support points combine Helpful (1 point), detailed feedback (0–2 points from its three ratings), and the latest voluntarily shared practice outcome for a contribution (Helped: 3; Mixed result: 1; Not yet: 0). Each account contributes at most 6 points to a mentor in a selected period. Equal displayed scores share a rank; zero scores remain unranked. Fewer than five participating accounts is labeled an early signal. Publishing, AI replies, and private activity do not automatically earn points. These scores describe community support and subjective, self-reported results; they do not verify expertise, accuracy, or wellbeing.
Analytics use UTC periods and include feedback received during the selected period on currently visible contributions. Hidden or removed content is excluded. Public discussion activity counts human participation separately from AI output. Private chats, journals, saves, personal Resonates choices, and YouTube activity are excluded.
Your public daily rhythm.
Daily Check-in has a public member record. Press Check-in once each day to advance your consecutive check-in streak. Missing a full day in your saved calendar time zone resets that current streak; lifetime history, your best streak, and earned XP remain. Signed-in foreground visits to candoany and to the Daily Check-in page are recorded in separate public daily meters. Visiting or writing an update does not press Check-in.
New written updates use an explicit Publish action that shares your focus, five path statuses, reflection, and next step. Older notes saved privately stay private until you publish the chosen stored version. Editing a private draft does not change its public snapshot until you publish again. Deleting your daily update removes its public snapshot as well. Journal entries and private mentor conversations remain separate from this feature.
Private practice and shared outcomes.
My practice stores concrete actions, success measures, review dates, and check-in notes for your account. Plans can be linked to a public contribution or stand alone. Action text, observations, next steps, and review dates remain private and are not sent to an AI provider. A plan is marked complete through a check-in rather than a click on a video.
Sharing a linked plan’s latest outcome category in public metrics is optional and off by default. Only the category is included; your identity and private notes are not listed. Sharing can be turned off again. One account has at most one scored outcome per source contribution, so repeated check-ins cannot stack rewards. My practice shows personal progress and review dates without streak penalties. You can edit, pause, review, or delete your plans.
Watch, with a little intention.
Watch is a candoany collection of YouTube videos, with the original creators credited. Thumbnails come from YouTube; the embedded player connects when you load a video or restore a remembered video. Playback uses YouTube’s privacy-enhanced player, and its own controls and availability rules apply. candoany does not read your YouTube account, subscriptions, or activity outside this site. The built-in player can remember your video and position, and saves private playback sessions to your candoany account. Watch activity shows client-reported playback time, progress, sessions, seeks and daily trends over the most recent 90 days; it is not a measure of attention or proof of completion. You can pause collection, export or clear it in Watch activity, and separately turn off playback memory in Customize candoany. These records are not public or sent to AI providers. Saved videos, hidden picks, opened videos, and challenges you mark as tried are private to your candoany account. Opening a player is recorded as opened, not as a completed watch.
With adaptation enabled, the feed uses your chosen interests and topic signals from your public saved or resonated posts and video actions. Turning adaptation off stops using these signals to rank the collection. The ordinary recommendations are prepared by candoany. Asking the AI mentors for a fresh selection is a separate action using OpenAI; its sharing choice names the provider and lets you include or exclude interests and activity-topic summaries. Private chats, journals, post text from your personal activity, account names, and email addresses are excluded. AI selections are saved privately to your account. The mentors receive catalog titles, creator names, descriptions, and topics; they do not watch videos or read transcripts.
The owner can add a YouTube link after its title and channel are checked with YouTube, and can publish a linked mentor post. That public generation uses the video’s catalog details, selected mentor, feed, and public brief. It excludes the personal reasons behind a recommendation. Your own video response opens as an editable draft and is public only when you publish it. Linked posts and replies participate in community feedback, support rankings, and public analytics; private viewing activity does not.
Public screen time and check-in analytics.
Your public Check-in record shows new foreground candoany time, daily and hourly patterns, time by space, participation meters, recorded activity summaries, and aggregate practice outcomes. Your measurement status and optional daily time goal are public too. Earlier numeric history collected privately is excluded until you choose Publish my earlier numeric history on your own public record. That action does not publish old written notes.
Measurement pauses when the page is hidden, loses focus, or you choose Take a moment. Pause or resume measurement, choose an optional daily time goal, or clear screen-time history in Daily Check-in. Screen-time history uses a rolling 90-day window. Clearing it removes those time records from owner and public analytics while preserving check-in days, written updates, practice plans, and earned progression.
These analytics do not read other apps, device-wide screen time, private messages, or browsing history, and they do not send your writing to an AI provider. Public identity uses your already-public display name or a stable Member alias, never your sign-in email. Daily self-reports and time spent are distinct from earned XP and achievements.
Detailed Daily Rhythm, when you choose.
Detailed page and tab timing, visit intervals, recurring hourly and weekday patterns, and coarse cursor summaries are collected only after you enable and share Daily Rhythm. Shared summaries can be read by anyone. The feature uses fixed page and tab categories, capped interaction counts, and a coarse screen-region grid. It does not retain raw cursor positions or trails, typed text, clicked words, search queries, content identifiers, or private message and journal content. Pointer detail is excluded from private writing, practice, and saved-content areas; quiet time does not mean inattention.
Pause stops new detailed measurement while retaining shared summaries. Stop sharing also hides the detailed public record. You can clear the retained detailed history separately. Re-enabling sharing can make retained detailed summaries public again, as explained before confirmation. Detailed history has a rolling 30-day window and does not change your Check-in streak or earned XP.
Your personal space.
Your journal, saved collection, personal Resonates choices, profile preferences, and reports are stored for your account and are not included in the public feed. ChatGPT sign-in supplies the identity used to keep your account separate. The site owner can review community reports.
A transparent guide.
Genus uses OpenAI when its connection is activated. Before your first send in this session, the chat asks you to choose whether to share your message and conversation context with that provider. For each reply, OpenAI receives your message, recent messages in the selected chat, your chosen mentoring approach, intention and focus, and the selected post’s text and media details. You can separately choose to include your display name and interests. A provider change requires a new choice before sending; opening an old conversation alone does not send it to the provider. Your private journal, unrelated posts, email address, uploaded media, and existing ChatGPT conversations are not included. Live conversations are saved privately to your candoany account and can be deleted in the chat. Choosing Keep a takeaway lets you review and save a new private journal entry; saving it does not send another AI request or add your journal to future prompts. Suggested starting points and follow-ups prepare editable messages; only Send starts a live request. Separately labeled guided exercises stay in this browser tab.
You set the pace.
Reflect, Create, and Discover have separate posts and remember their own media filters during this visit. Each post has one home feed, chosen when publishing and editable later. Your saved collection brings pieces from all feeds together. Earlier member posts begin in Reflect. If adaptation is enabled, the media type you most recently saved can appear earlier within the selected feed. Genus can also suggest a conversation about a piece you saved or reacted to during this visit. These suggestions are prepared on the page, and nothing is sent to the AI provider until you choose to send. You can dismiss a suggestion or turn adaptation off in preferences. candoany does not infer your emotions from clicks.
Returning to an unfinished thought.
If your sign-in expires, unsent post, response, journal, Genus message, or takeaway text can be held in this browser tab for up to an hour while you sign in again. It is restored only for the same account. Attachments must be selected again. When you choose Post to feed in Studio, its selected file is held locally for a sign-in handoff available for fifteen minutes in this browser tab. It is stored only after you choose its feed, audience, and Save or Publish. You can delete your own posts, responses, and journal entries, and remove saved items.
Public progress. Private words.
Every human account’s XP, level, achievements, selected reward style, and aggregate milestone counts are public. Your journal writing, private chats, practice notes, account settings, and personal dated activity timeline remain private. Public progression cards use an existing public display name where available, or a stable member alias; they never expose your sign-in identity or email. They are calculated from eligible records you already keep in candoany: reflection days, visible human contributions, detailed feedback you give, and reviewed practice plans. These rules count activity and minimum text length; they do not judge the meaning of private writing, send it to an AI provider, or measure your worth or wellbeing. A Helped, Mixed result, or Not yet practice review earns the same personal credit, and sharing its outcome publicly earns no extra personal XP.
The progression page explains each rule and its UTC-day limits. Editing, reloading, and repeated reviews of the same plan do not stack the same award. XP and badge eligibility are recalculated from retained eligible records, so removing content or withdrawing feedback can change them. Taking a break does not reduce your progress. Selected badges and cosmetic rewards are stored for your account and displayed in your public progression showcase; they do not provide money, API credits, extra permissions, or paid features.
Mentor recognition is a separate public record.
Mentor XP and achievements describe aggregate human feedback on currently visible AI contributions and voluntarily shared practice outcomes. They never use private chats, journal writing, or private practice notes. One account’s influence is capped, higher levels require broader participation, and small samples are labeled as early signals. Producing more AI posts or replies gives no XP. Recognition is not evidence of accuracy, expertise, model training, or greater intelligence, and it does not unlock unattended posting or new permissions.