Buckets vs XEQ41

Where does your week actually go? Buckets holds the parts of your life that matter, work, movement, sleep, family, and gives each one a weekly intention: how much time you actually want to pour in. Then it helps you protect that time before the week gets noisy. HOW IT WORKS Bucket. One area of your life, with a weekly intention. Work. Movement. Sleep. Family. Study. Faith. Whatever yours are. Block. You protect time for a Bucket by placing a Block on your calendar, in advance. A promise made to yourself while the week is still quiet. Session. When the Block arrives you start a focus session, and the timer runs. Work, move, rest, read. The session just holds the time. Pour. When you finish you confirm what actually happened, and only then does it pour into the Bucket. A Pour is never recorded without you. That last part is the whole point. Buckets does not watch you, guess at you, or fill itself in behind your back. Your week is only as full as you say it is, which is what makes the number worth looking at. YOUR WEEK, IN ONE PLACE Vessels for each Bucket that fill as the week goes on A plan timeline where you drag a Bucket onto the day to protect time Your existing calendar shown alongside, so open space stays honest Widgets for today's plan, one Bucket's ring, and how the week is filling A Live Activity and Dynamic Island for the running session Morning and evening moments, a daily reflection, and a weekly close Shortcuts for starting and finishing a session by voice ON YOUR DEVICE, AND NOWHERE ELSE No account. No sign up. No server. Every Bucket, Block, Session and Pour lives in the app's own database on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is sold, nothing leaves the device unless you choose to connect your calendar or Health. FREE, AND PRO Free holds one Bucket, with the full day, sessions, reflections, and every Pour you ever confirm. Buckets Pro holds as many Buckets as your life has parts, plus repeating Blocks, calendar mirroring, workouts that arrive ready to pour from Health, and export of every confirmed Pour as plain readable JSON. Built by one person, in Swift, for iPhone on iOS 18 and later. SUBSCRIPTION Buckets Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Buckets Pro (Yearly): $39.99 per year, with a 1 week free trial for new subscribers. Buckets Pro (Monthly): $6.99 per month. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account settings after purchase. If you take the free trial, any unused portion of it is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://buckets-app-xi.vercel.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://buckets-app-xi.vercel.app/privacy.html

XEQ41 is a hand-written emulator of a 1983 programmable RPN calculator, running the original manufacturer's microcode on a simulated NUT processor. It is not a re-implementation of the machine's behaviour — it is a simulation of its processor, so the calculator on screen executes the same instructions the hardware executed, and does what the hardware did for the same reasons. THE DETAILS THAT GET TESTED • Hold a key too long and the microcode itself cancels the function and prints NULL. That is 7,100 instructions — 1.23 seconds at original speed. Nobody wrote a timer; the ROM does it, and it stays 1.23 seconds when you run the machine faster. • BEEP is four tones, not three: 578, 361, 722 and 578 Hz, because the microcode falls through into a fourth. The test was written expecting three and the machine corrected it. • The display is modelled as a liquid crystal panel rather than sampled as a register, so the half-built strings the hardware never showed stay hidden and the 174 ms blink it does intend does not. • Continuous memory. Close it, force-quit it, come back next week — it is where you left it. • Shift-ON puts up a running clock, exactly as the manual says. THE FACEPLATE IS DRAWN, NOT PHOTOGRAPHED Thirty-nine moving key caps, the glass and the annunciator row are all vector, generated from a measured coordinate table — sharp at any size, with no image assets anywhere. A key going down travels, closes the shadow beneath it and darkens. The fourteen-segment display face is ours outright, drawn from our own segment table, so no third-party font ships. Every key is an accessibility element whose label is composed from the printed legend, so VoiceOver says "x squared" where the plate prints x². WHAT IS IN IT • FOCAL programming, with program files in and out through Files • Extended Memory, with real file structure • Four ports for plug-in module images you supply • The 82143A thermal printer and its paper tape, once you supply its ROM image • Synthetic programming — the byte grabber runs • Saved machines that record what was plugged in and refuse to open as something else • Alarms, the clock, BEEP and TONE, LCD contrast, haptics • Fifty transcribed keyboard overlay cards • Three faceplate palettes, and an optional extra display for the stack or the machine's status • Seven FOCAL programs written for this app, free to use and modify HOW IT IS CHECKED Thirteen scripted scenarios run byte-identical against a second, independent implementation of the same processor. Six programs from printed sources reproduce their published answers, including a polynomial fit and a singular linear system whose correct answer is the degenerate one. All thirty coordinates of a published planetary ephemeris match to the seven digits the display carries. 673 tests. PRIVACY There is no networking code in the app at all. No account, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, nothing collected. Everything stays in the app's own storage on your device. WHAT IT IS NOT It is not a general-purpose calculator — it is one specific machine, and if you have never wanted that machine it has nothing to offer over the one already on your phone. Third-party module images — the printer's ROM among them — are yours to import, not ours to distribute. COMPATIBILITY XEQ41 is functionally equivalent to the HP-41CX. XEQ41 is not affiliated with, authorized by, endorsed by, or sponsored by Hewlett-Packard. HP, Hewlett-Packard and HP-41 are trademarks of their respective owners.