# Link a Day

> A December countdown in the shape of a paper chain: 24 loops for 1 to 24 December, one small thing a group does together each day, sized to that day - a couple of minutes on a busy evening, the bigger moments on free weekend days, a small add-on to what is already planned. For a family with kids, a couple, flatmates, friends or a remote team.

URL: https://link-a-day.skillsafe.ai/
API tutorial: https://link-a-day.skillsafe.ai/api.html

## Free, in the browser
- The crew: who the chain is for, who is in it, what the group enjoys and avoids, the feel (cosy, playful, reflective, mixed), secular or with a few quiet faith moments.
- The calendar: busy weekdays, busy dates and already-planned things (dates read as "12", "12th", "Dec 12", "12 December"; anything past the 24th is named and left out), weekends together or off, minutes for busy days, weekdays and free days, and a money budget.
- The day layout, by a fixed order: planned day, day off (weekend, when weekends are off), busy day, free weekend day, ordinary weekday. Each day gets a minute limit (a planned day a 10-minute add-on, a day off 2 minutes) and a share of the budget by weight (busy 1, weekday 2, free day 4, planned and off 0), in whole units that add up to the budget.
- The verdict rule on the light days (busy, planned or off): roomy (up to 6), snug (7 to 12), packed (13 or more).
- A starter chain from a built-in list of small prop-free rituals, the hanging chain of 24 loops, the same links as strips, tearing off loops through the month.
- Exports: a calendar file (.ics, 24 all-day events, each with a 5 pm reminder), CSV, printable strips to cut and loop into a real paper chain, copy, Markdown, JSON; saved chains (in the browser, or in your account when signed in).
- Changing the calendar after a fit (a busy day moves) keeps the fitted links on every day whose kind is the same and whose link still fits; only the changed days fall back to starter links, and the page names them.

## Metered (gpt-terra), one task: fit the chain
- Two or three threads (recurring rituals with a purpose): three for roomy and snug, two for packed.
- All 24 links: a title, what to do, minutes within the day's limit, an estimated cost within the day's share, what to get ready ahead, who starts it; planned days get an add-on to the plan, days off a deliberate pause; day 24 looks back over the chain.
- The links safe to skip (none for roomy, one for snug, two for packed) and one line on picking up after a missed day.
- The page re-checks every reply against its own layout: verdict, thread count, all 24 days, minutes and costs over the limits, the budget total, free planned days and days off, the skips, field names or dates in the wording, faith content in a secular chain, the avoid list. What to get ready ahead is added up by the page.

## Limits and honesty
- Costs in a fitted chain are the model's estimates, not prices. The page never adds a name, a place, a price or a brand.
- Advent calendars count down to Christmas and the custom has Christian roots; the chain stays secular unless faith moments are asked for.
- Nothing is sent anywhere until you press "Fit the chain".

## Source
Built on the SkillSafe skill @refoundai/team-rituals (https://skillsafe.ai/skill/@refoundai/team-rituals): design effective rituals and recurring shared practices for a team. Here the team is whatever group shares December.