Walkthrough

Planning in Swaya

Six steps, roughly five minutes. This is the shape of a day in the app rather than a manual.

The first five minutes

Step 1: Set your baseline
Tell Swaya the shape of your life: routines, the commitments that do not move, how you prefer to plan, and what recovery normally looks like for you. This is the part that lets it estimate anything at all.
Step 2: Check in
Start from the day you actually woke up into. Log sleep, energy and stress, and name the one thing that matters most today. It takes under a minute and it is what makes the plan today's rather than generic.
Step 3: Add the load
Enter tasks as demand rather than as a list: rough time, importance, how much energy it will cost, any deadline, and where it helps, the smallest useful version of it.
Step 4: Read the capacity state
In range means the plan fits. Tight means it is close to the edge. Overloaded means demand has passed what the day can hold. The state is labelled in words as well as colour, so it does not depend on seeing colour.
Step 5: Repair the plan
When the state says overloaded, repair it: shrink something to its smallest useful version, move it, defer it, or rebuild the day around what is left. This is a normal step, not a failure.
Step 6: Ask why
Any card can tell you why it is showing you what it shows. Ask at the card itself and the answer is about that specific thing. If you want a longer conversation about the week, that has its own entry point you open when you want it.

Six terms that carry specific meanings in the app.

Capacity: The usable bandwidth in a given day.
Demand: The load created by tasks, commitments and fixed time.
Recovery: Sleep, energy and stress, used as planning context rather than as a health score.
Repair: How an overloaded plan gets adjusted, as a designed path rather than manual cleanup.
Smallest useful version: The reduced form of a task that still counts as having done it.
Look ahead: A preview of what coming days are carrying, so overload is visible early.