Guide
Plans and activities
Every chat has a shared calendar. Events record what happened or what's coming, plans keep track of what you want to do, and activities let you record and chart things over time.
How they fit together
Calendar
Open a chat's sections and choose Calendar. A month sits on top, and the selected day's timeline below it.
- Swipe sideways to change month. Swipe up to shrink the month to a single week, and down to bring it back. Today jumps back to today.
- Days are marked with coloured dots for activities, a grey dot for events, a photo or paperclip for media and files, and an orange flag for plans that are due.
- Tap a day, then tap anything on its timeline to open it. Plans due that day appear as chips; overdue ones are marked in red.
Times show in the time zone of your device. An all-day plan stays on its date wherever you look at it from.
Events
An event is something that happens at a time: dinner, a hike, a doctor's appointment. It appears in the timeline, on the calendar, in the Events tab and, if it has a place, on the map.
Add an event
- In a chat, tap + › Event.
- Enter a Title and when it Starts. Turn on End Date & Time if it has an end.
- Optionally add a Location, up to 10 photos or videos (the first is the event's highlight), a description and activity values.
- Tap Add.
Taking part
Only the person who created an event can edit or delete it. Everyone else takes part by adding their own entry with Add yours, for example their own time or distance. Only you can change your entry. Deleting an event also removes the entries other members added to it.
Plans
A plan is something the chat wants to do: a restaurant to try, a chore, a challenge. Plans live in the chat's Plans tab, grouped into lists.
| Field | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Kind | To-do, Wish or Challenge. This only changes the icon and wording. |
| List | Which list it belongs to. New plans go in Unsorted. |
| Due Date | A deadline, with or without a time. Plans that are due show on the calendar. |
| For | Who should do it. Nobody selected means anyone. |
| Activities | Values to collect when the plan is done with an event. |
| Location, Link, Notes | Where, a web page about it, and anything else. |
| Repeat | Every day, week, month or year, with an optional end. |
Add a plan
Tap + › Plan in a chat, or Add Plan in the Plans tab. Use the Lists menu to create, rename or delete lists. Deleting a list moves its plans to Unsorted.
What's next?
Open a plan to decide what to do with it:
- Add Event: pick a time ahead to schedule it, or now or earlier to log it and mark it done.
- Check It Off: mark it done without an event.
- Not Doing It: drop it. Done and dropped plans can be reopened with Reopen.
Anyone in the chat can edit a plan or check it off. Only the person who added it can delete it.
Repeating plans
When a repeating plan is done, the next one is added. Next One chooses how its due date is set:
- On a schedule: one period after the previous due date, such as every Sunday, skipping any that are already past.
- After it's done: one period after it was actually done, such as two weeks after the last haircut.
Repeats keep their time of day across daylight-saving changes, and month-end dates stay at the end of the month. Dropping a repeating plan stops it repeating.
Activities
An activity describes something you want to record, such as a workout, your mood or glasses of water. Activities belong to your persona, under the Activities tab on the persona page, and you can use them in any of that persona's chats.
Create an activity
- On the persona page, open Activities and tap Add Activity › Create Activity.
- Start from a template (Just log it, Mood, Water, Workout or Weight) or from scratch.
- Under What do you record?, use Add a Value for each thing to record, up to 10. The When recording preview shows what the form will look like.
| Value type | Records | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Occurrence | Just that it happened | Check-in |
| Choice | One of a few options (up to 20) | Mood: Great, OK, Low |
| Count | A whole number, with an optional unit | Water: 6 glasses |
| Measurement | A number with a unit | Workout: 45 min |
Each value can have limits and be marked required. Activity definitions can be shared as JSON with Export JSON Definition and Import JSON Definition. When someone records an activity in a chat, other members can copy it with Add activity to my persona.
Observations
An observation is one recording of an activity: when it happened, its values, and optional notes and photos. Where you record it decides who sees it.
- Private: open the activity on your persona's Activities tab and tap Record, for example Record Workout. Only your own devices see it.
- Shared in a chat: in the chat, tap + › Activity. Everyone in the chat sees it, and it doesn't create an event.
- On an event: turn on the activity in the event's Activities section and fill in its values.
Other members can add their own entry to a shared observation, just as they can for events. The chat's Activities tab and each activity's page show charts over 30 days, 90 days, a year or all time: a line per person for measurements, stacked bars for counts, and a timeline for choices. Your current and longest streaks appear on the activity's page.