How Daily Battery works
The details behind the Help card: how the charge is counted, what you can change, and what your share link shows.
Energy, not productivity
After a good night's sleep you wake up full. Every hour spends some of it. By evening you're running on what's left — less patient, less tender, more blunt. Not a worse person. A drained one.
This makes that visible: one number, reported by you, that the people close to you can see before they knock.
Energy
Your daily resource
How the charge is counted
A day starts at 100% of a chosen capacity — 16 hours by default.
Three things drain it:
- The day itself — with Auto-Day on, the charge starts falling at the set wake time, whether or not anyone opens the app.
- The timer — Start, Pause and Resume mark when the spending happens. With Auto-Day off, this is the only thing the clock listens to.
- Events — some things cost more than the clock says. A bad night's sleep is −15% before the day even starts; a difficult conversation, −12%. One tap and it's gone.
Worth knowing
- Auto-Day is off until it's turned on. Without it nothing drains by itself: no timer started, no event logged → still 100%. Either way, what gets recorded is what someone chose to record.
- Pause stops the timer for now; Resume starts it again. Auto-Day will not restart it again that tracking day.
- A new tracking day starts at midnight in your saved timezone. Your preferred Capacity carries forward, and there is no day-to-day history yet.
- The charge floors at 0% — it never goes negative, and it keeps running past empty.
What you can do
- Auto-Day — set your wake time in Settings under Auto-Day and the day starts without you. Off until you turn it on.
- Start / Pause / Resume — Start begins spending now, Pause stops the timer for now, and Resume continues later. Pausing an Auto-Day session keeps it paused for that tracking day unless you resume it yourself.
- Log an event — tap a chip under Log an Event. Use the Remove button in Today's Events to undo one; it gives back exactly what it took.
- Capacity — 16 hours isn't a rule. Set what a full day is for you, 1 to 24, in Settings under Daily Capacity; your preference carries into each new tracking day.
- Share your link — anyone with it sees your charge, your capacity, the hours used and left, whether the timer is running right now, and when that last changed. Today's events only if you switch that on in Settings; never past days, and no controls. With Auto-Day on, that timestamp is your wake time, to the minute.
- Recovery key — your only way back in. No email, no password. Lose it, lose the battery.