The Daymint guide
Daymint is a free, no-account daily ritual: write one small true thing about your day, and it is struck into an original bronze commemorative coin that drops into a growing personal vault.
What Daymint is
Most days pass without a mark. Daymint gives each one a small, tangible keepsake. You type a single honest line — “finished the hard chapter”, “called my mom” — and your words are engraved in relief onto a coin we drew from scratch: a milled rim, a guilloché edge, and a little mint-mark. Every coin is 100% original ornamental art, not real currency. It is memory-keeping for its own sake — gentle and low-stakes, not a journal, a mood tracker, or advice.
How the daily ritual works
- Write one true line. Open Daymint and put a single small, true thing about today into the field. If the page is blank, a fresh original prompt is there to nudge you. Keep it short — up to 90 characters, because it has to fit legibly on a coin.
- Strike the coin. Tap Strike coin. Your words snap into struck metal with a quick press animation, dated on the reverse. That struck coin is yours to keep, flip, or share as an image.
- Grow your vault. Each new coin drops into your vault — a composed roll that fills as the days add up. It reads as a real collection at one coin and at two hundred.
- Keep a streak. Strike a coin every day and your current streak climbs. Miss a day and the current streak resets, but every coin you already struck is kept and your longest streak is remembered. There is no back-filling — the point is showing up, honestly.
Five tips for a line worth striking
- Aim for true, not impressive. The small real thing (“ate lunch outside”) ages better than a grand summary. A coin is a memory, not a status update.
- Be concrete. A name, a place, or a single detail makes a line you will actually recognize a year from now.
- Let the prompt help. On an empty day, answer the day’s prompt in one plain phrase instead of staring at the blank field. Each day’s prompt comes from a different facet of an ordinary day — what you noticed, who was in it, what steadied you — so it is worth a read even when you already know your line.
- Strike before bed, not at midnight. Give yourself a comfortable evening window so the streak stays a gentle habit, not a race against the clock.
- Don’t chase the streak with filler. A broken streak is fine — your vault keeps every coin. One honest line beats a week of “nothing happened”.
Frequently asked questions
Is it free?
Yes — completely free and ad-supported, with no account, sign-up, or install. Your coins and streak live in your own browser.
Is my line public?
No. Your line is private and stays in your browser’s local storage. There is no shared feed and no one can browse your coins. A line only reaches anyone else if you deliberately share that one coin as an image.
What does the moderation screen blank?
Since a coin can become a public image, a quick screen runs before minting. It asks you to reword slurs, hate, graphic sexual or violent content, and pasted links, and keeps a line to a single row of up to 90 characters. Everyday words pass; only genuinely abusive content is turned away.
Where do the daily prompts come from?
We write them. There are 90 original prompts, grouped into 6 registers — worth keeping, the people in it, what you carried, what you noticed, what shifted, what steadied you — with an equal number of lines in each. Nothing is quoted from a book, an author, or anyone else. One prompt is drawn per day, the same for everybody, and the rotation uses every single line before any of them comes round again. It is only ever a nudge: write whatever you like, or ignore the prompt completely.
When does the day reset?
At your own local midnight. Daymint reads your device’s calendar date, so a new blank coin is ready when a new day begins where you are. One coin per calendar day, and a missed day can’t be back-filled.
Curious what past days looked like? Every day’s coin is kept in the Daymint archive — one page per past day, with that day’s commemorative coin and reflection prompt.