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The narrative was created to help users understand the app's 86,400-second daily time budget mechanic as meaningful 'Solar Coins' rather than seeing the app as just another generic habit tracker, with wisdom scrolls and action instructions mapped to in-app features like Daily Sanskrit Wisdom and the Action Creator. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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