Glossary
A quick reference for the terms you'll meet throughout StarCards. A few words mean different things in different parts of the app — those are called out explicitly below.
Cards & organizing
- Card — the basic unit of StarCards. Every card is shaped like a five-pointed star whose points spell CARDS: Card Info, Attachments, Related, Decks, Settings & Share. See Filling Your Card.
- Daily Card — the one card created for you automatically each day. It locks at midnight and anchors that day's journal. See The Daily Card.
- Deck — a named collection of cards (cards only). You assign cards to Decks from a card's Point 4. Two system Decks exist and can't be deleted: Daily (every daily card) and StarStats (every Stat Card). See Decks.
- Star Tag — a freeform label that can be applied to both cards and tasks — the same tag can sit on a card and a task. On a card, Star Tags live on Point 3 (Related). Don't confuse these with Star Lists. See Tags & Due Dates.
- Archive — where cards and tasks go when you archive them: still searchable and filterable, and restorable anytime. See Archive.
Tasks & focus
- Task — a to-do that moves through three columns: Do → Doing → Did. See Tasks.
- Star List — a named bucket that groups tasks (tasks only — a task belongs to one list). Star Lists are for tasks the way Decks are for cards. See Star Lists.
- Pomodoro — a 25-minute focused work session you run against a task from the Timer.
StarKicks (the game)
- StarKicks — the daily, space-league penalty-shootout game powered by the tasks you complete. See StarKicks.
- Kick — one shot in the daily shootout. Each completed task earns one kick, up to five per day. Every shootout also includes five kicks you defend against.
- Startoken — the StarKicks currency: one per completed task (max five per day), spent on permanent Gear.
- Tell — the hint a goalie or striker gives before committing. Each character follows a fixed, learnable rule for when their tell is honest.
- PEAK — your best goal haul across any rolling 7-day stretch (capped at 35). It never goes down. See Records & the Grid.
- Season — the 49-day StarKicks cycle in which every goalie-and-striker pairing occurs exactly once. Distinct from a Seasonal Stats Series (a calendar quarter).
- Player tier — your overall standing, from lowest to highest: Rookie → Starter → All-Star → Legend → Hall of Fame.
"Season" vs. "Series"
- In StarKicks, a Season is the 49-day fixture cycle.
- In Stats, a Series is a named tracking period (daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal, yearly) that accumulates your stats and produces a Stat Card when it closes. See Series.
These are unrelated. When in doubt, "Stats Series" = a time period; "StarKicks Season" = the game's 49-day calendar.
Stats & scoring
RAD (Radiance)
Your RAD score (short for Radiance) is a 1–100 measure of how consistently you're showing up. It's computed entirely from real activity — no games required: mostly how steadily you've completed tasks over the trailing 30 days (up to five a day count), plus your login streak. RAD rewards steady weeks, not hero days — five tasks today nudges it; five tasks a day for a month maxes it. Period RAD (weekly, monthly, etc.) averages your active days' scores. See Stat Cards.
- Stat Card — a read-only snapshot the app generates at the end of each Stats Series, summarizing your RAD, tasks completed, PEAK, and more. The app also calls these StarStat cards; they collect in the StarStats Deck and your Archive. See Stat Cards.
- Streak — your run of consecutive days that each have a login and a collected Daily Card. Miss a day and it resets. See Streaks.