Let the garden keep what she was given, not only what she sought

Two halves of the same idea, both read out of work Petal already
records.

Planting: an accepted collocation is a learnable chunk, so it becomes a
phrase card. The scheduler didn't need to know — a three-word chunk
climbs the ladder exactly like a looked-up word. What needed care was
deciding what *isn't* a chunk (single words are word choice; a
six-word-plus "collocation" is a rewritten sentence, and sentences make
miserable flashcards), and that the example must be the *corrected*
sentence — the stored draft still holds the phrasing she just left
behind. Re-accepting the same chunk leaves the existing card alone
rather than resetting a schedule it has been climbing. The whole thing
is best-effort: accepting an edit must never fail because a flashcard
couldn't be made.

The growth journal: kept this month beside kept the month before, the
phrasing that stuck, the patterns that faded. The queries were the easy
part; the honesty is the feature. "Stuck" needs the phrase in a *second*
document, because one document is just the edit where she left it.
"Faded" says nothing at all unless she has been writing lately —
otherwise a month away from Petal comes back to her as progress, which
is the one way this could lie. And a suggestion had to start recording
when she *decided* it, not when the model proposed it, so 0012 adds
resolved_at and backfills the old rows to their created_at.

It lives as a second tab in the garden, and it feeds the kitten: after
an accept she now sometimes hears something true of her alone, once per
line, half the time, never waited for.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016y6gyuHkQXPiEuW8RGQyua
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@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import {
type Line,
} from './tips'
import { analyzeProse } from './prose'
import { personalCheer, warmPersonalCheers } from './journalCheers'
import { playPop, playSound, type SoundName } from '../../audio/sounds'
import { isBedtime } from '../../lib/night'
@@ -197,7 +198,13 @@ export function useCompanion({ wordCount, saveStatus, llmDown, editTick, acceptT
firstAccept.current = false
return
}
say({ ...pick(encouragements()), tone: 'cheer' }, { celebrate: true })
// Prefer something true of her own writing over a line that would fit
// anybody — but only sometimes, so the personal ones stay a small surprise
// rather than the new default. The journal is fetched on this first accept
// and never awaited: the cheer goes out now, personal or not.
warmPersonalCheers()
const personal = Math.random() < 0.5 ? personalCheer() : null
say({ ...(personal ?? pick(encouragements())), tone: 'cheer' }, { celebrate: true })
// eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
}, [acceptTick])