Boosters
How Boosters Fit Your Plan
Your 12-week plan is the spine of GapFix; Boosters are the muscle you add around it. Here's how the two work together — and when to reach for which.
The plan: depth, in order
Your plan targets the specific gaps between your resume and your target role: 12 weeks, 7 daily focuses per week, about 15 focused minutes of interactive lesson work a day. It's sequential on purpose — each day builds on the last, and Day 7 of every week is a retrieval-only review.
Boosters: breadth, on demand
Boosters are deliberately the opposite: independent, expert-built interactive micro-sessions with no prerequisites and no order. Use them to:
- Explore skills adjacent to your plan — things that weren't flagged as gaps but round you out
- Follow curiosity without derailing your plan's sequence
- Get a quick, hands-on take on a topic before your plan covers it in depth
- Keep learning on days when a full lesson doesn't fit
Doing Boosters never changes your plan's sequence. Your plan advances only through its own lessons.
Where they meet
Even though Boosters sit outside the plan, everything flows into the same system:
- One review queue. Booster concepts and lesson concepts both become memory seeds and come back in your 2-minute Daily Practice on expanding intervals — 1 day, then 3, then a week, then longer — tuned to how well you remember.
- One set of recall scores. Your per-skill recall scores blend evidence from both, so your dashboard reflects everything you actually know.
- One streak. A day counts if you complete a lesson, a Booster, or the Daily Practice — any one of the three.
- One XP pool. Boosters earn XP just like lessons do.
- Reassessment sees it all. When a milestone week offers to re-tune your plan, it reads real learning evidence — recall per skill, quiz accuracy, completions — and Booster-built knowledge is part of that picture.
A sensible rhythm
On a normal day: your lesson (~15 minutes) plus Daily Practice (2 minutes). Add a Booster when you have spare curiosity. On a crushed day: just Daily Practice or one quick Booster — your streak survives, and your plan simply continues tomorrow.
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