How zoevo works.

1.1Finding your way around#

zoevo opens on the main screen. It has three sections, each with two rows of square tiles: DAILIES, WEEKLIES and ROUTINES. In portrait they’re stacked and scroll sideways; in landscape they sit side by side as three columns that scroll up and down.

The top bar, left to right

• The middle toggle. In run mode it’s the list filter (Advanced mode only). In edit mode it switches between Goals and Sources.
• Tour this screen. A short guided tour of what you’re looking at. Advanced mode only: in Simple mode an eye button takes its place.
• Edit or run. A pencil means you’re in run mode; tap it to Switch to edit mode. A crossed-out pencil means you’re editing; tap it to Switch to run mode.
• Timeline. Streaks, success rates and history.
• Account. Sign-in, zoevo+, display mode, language, week planning, the setup wizard and data deletion.

Small windows

In split screen or a pop-up window, a thin blue-grey rail replaces the top bar. It keeps the edit/run button and the middle toggle and moves the rest into a three-dot menu: Timeline, Account and, when it’s time to plan, Plan coming week now, Dismiss and Turn off (an orange dot on the menu tells you). Section labels, the plan button and the automatic tour are hidden there.

Where to find things

1.2Sources: what you track#

A source is the raw thing you record: taps, time or sessions. Goals measure a source, and routines feed it. Each source has a name (up to 10 characters; an emoji counts as 2), a color and an icon, and every goal and routine step built on it wears the same color and icon.

• water

  Tally Tallies

  A number per day. Each tap adds one: glasses of water, push-ups, pages.

• reading

  Stopwatch Timers

  Start and stop; the elapsed time adds up for the day. Several can run at once. The app labels it Timer.

• coding

  Focus Focus

  Sessions of a set Duration: 25 minutes by default, 1 to 240 in 5-minute steps. Each finished session adds 1 for the day.

One source, many goals

A reading source can drive a daily goal, a weekly goal and a routine step at the same time. Log it once and all of them move.

That’s also why changing the color, icon or session length in a goal editor can change other tiles. When a source is shared, the editor says so: This source is shared with 2 other entries — color, icon, and session length here apply to all of them.

Where sources live

• In edit mode, switch the middle toggle to Sources (the layers icon). Tap a source to edit it; long-press it for View history, archive and delete.
• You can also create one on the spot with the New tile while picking a source for a goal or a routine step.
• Sources aren’t limited by the free plan: everyone can have up to 99 of each kind.

How toLog progress

1.3Daily and weekly goals#

A goal turns a source into a target. There are two kinds.

Daily and weekly goals compared

Property	Daily	Weekly
Measures	One tally, stopwatch or focus source	One tally, stopwatch or focus source, or one of your dailies
Target	Per day	Over one week
Planned days	You pick the weekdays that count	None: every week counts
Reminder	At a planned time	Once, near the end of the week
Streak	Yes	No

A weekly that counts a daily

When you create a weekly, the DAILIES section of the picker (Count a daily you already track) lets you count days completed instead of an amount. The target is in days, from 1 to 7.

• A day counts when the daily succeeded that day, planned or not, and wasn’t marked skipped or missed. Days after today never count.
• For a Maximum daily, today only counts once the day is over, and an unplanned day only counts if you logged something and stayed within the cap.
• Its tile shows diamond marks and takes its color and icon from the daily. To change them, edit the daily.
• Tapping it doesn’t log anything. It shows a hint instead: This weekly counts how often its daily is completed. Complete the daily itself to make progress here. Long-press offers only Normal, Missed and Skipped.

Defaults and limits

• A new daily starts at 1 (tally or focus) or 30 minutes (stopwatch), planned on all seven days. A new weekly starts at 5 (tally, focus or days) or 3 hours (stopwatch). The name starts as the source’s name.
• Targets are whole numbers above 0. Stopwatch targets use hour and minute fields, up to 168 hours.
• The free plan allows 5 active dailies and 3 active weeklies; zoevo+ allows up to 99 of each. See zoevo+ and the free plan.

How toCreate a daily goalCreate a weekly goal

1.4Minimum (Aim) and Maximum (Cap)#

Every goal has a direction, chosen with the Minimum / Maximum toggle in its editor. Minimum is for things you want more of, Maximum for things you want to keep under a limit.

As you use up a cap, its marks and ring change color:

• 60% of the cap
• 80%
• 100% and over
• a mark exactly at the cap

A mark past the cap is red, and a cap of 0 turns red on the first unit.

1.5Reading a tile#

In Advanced mode every goal tile carries its progress on its face. (Simple mode keeps just the icon and the name; see Simple and Advanced.) These are real tiles from the app:

• Focus daily3 of 4 sessions plus 2 stretch slots, one circle each
• More than 6 slotsA bar with value over target
• Stopwatch dailyCounts down to the target; the ring fills
• Past the targetCounts up the extra time, with a check
• MaximumWhite tile; the ring warms up near the cap
• Weekly counting a dailyOne diamond per day
• Target metGreyed out, with a check
• RoutineThe badge counts today’s runs

The mark strip

A goal with a target of 1 shows a single larger mark once it’s done.

Grey tiles and markers

• Minimum dailies grey out once the target is met, and stay grey while you chase the stretch.
• Minimum weeklies with a stretch goal stay bright until the stretch is met.
• Maximum tiles grey out once the cap is breached.
• Skipped and missed tiles always grey out and carry a marker: for skipped, for missed.
• Routine tiles show a white badge in the top-right with today’s runs (“+” above 9), a blue skip or red cross in the top-left when today is skipped or missed, and a Paused pill when a paused run is waiting for you.
• Locked tiles (over the free limits) look normal but carry an orange lock badge. Archived items only show in edit mode, greyed out.

1.6Stretch goals#

A stretch goal is a second, higher target for a Minimum goal. In the editor tap + add stretch goal and enter a number after stretch: reach. It has to be greater than the target. The minus button (remove stretch goal) takes it away again.

In the app’s own words: An optional bonus target beyond your main goal. Hitting the regular target is a normal success; hitting the stretch is shown in a richer green so standout days stand out at a glance.

• On tiles, stretch slots follow the target slots in light green.
• On the Timeline a stretch day is dark green.
• It’s a visual bonus only. For streaks and success rates a stretch day counts the same as hitting the target.
• A stopwatch daily also tells you when you get there: Stretch goal reached — the timer keeps running.

• Target met
• Stretch goal hit
• Stretch slot on a tile

1.7Planned days, time and reminders#

Planned days

The Planned days pills (in a daily’s SCHEDULE section, or Days in a routine) choose the weekdays that count. The editors always start the row on Monday.

• M
• T
• W
• T
• F
• S
• S

The weekdays this should count for. Unplanned days don't penalise you — your value still tracks, but those days won't show as missed if you skip them.

The weekday pattern and the actual plan

The pills are a pattern. zoevo turns it into a real plan for each day, from today until four weeks after the current one, and adds another week at every week change.

• Changing a weekday in the pattern rewrites that weekday in all the upcoming weeks, replacing any one-off change you made on it. Other weekdays keep their one-off changes.
• You can plan or unplan single days on the Timeline (today and later) and in Plan the week.
• Past plans never change. You can still mark past days skipped or missed and correct their values.

Planned time

Planned time: shows — : — until you set it. The picker starts at 09:00, and the × clears it. The time also sorts tiles within a section: earlier first, untimed last.

Reminders

• The Reminder: switch unlocks once a planned time is set; for a daily it also has to be a Minimum goal. It’s off by default, and setting a time doesn’t turn it on.
• Turning on a daily reminder asks for Android’s notification permission again if zoevo doesn’t have it.
• The notification shows the name and It's your planned time for 'reading'.
• There’s no reminder on days that aren’t planned, that you marked skipped or missed, that are already done (a daily at its target, a routine run at least once), or once the time has passed.
• zoevo schedules reminders for the next 3 planned days and refreshes them whenever you open the app, return to it or leave it. A reminder clears itself at the end of its day.

Weekly reminder

A weekly’s REMINDER switch sends one combined notification at 08:00 on the second-to-last day of your week (Saturday, if your week starts on Monday): Weekly reminder, Still open this week: … with up to three names. It includes Minimum weeklies with the switch on that aren’t met, skipped or missed yet.

How toSet remindersPlan the coming week

1.8Day states#

Each day of a daily ends up in one of these states. The Timeline, the Daily history and the planner use the same colors.

• Normal, Skipped and Missed come from the long-press popup and only apply to planned days. Normal clears a skip or a miss.
• On past days the plan is fixed, but you can still set skipped or missed and change the value. See Skip, miss or backfill a day.

How toSkip, miss or backfill a day

1.9Streaks#

Every daily has a streak: the flame in the Timeline’s Streak column and Current streak in its Daily history, counted back from today. Weeklies and routines don’t have streaks.

Flame colors

• 1from 1 day
• 30from 30
• 90from 90
• 200from 200
• 365365 (max)

• A streak of 0 shows no flame.
• In landscape the Timeline adds a Best column, an outlined flame with the longest streak of the last 365 days.
• Streaks are counted over the last 365 days, so a flame never shows more than 365.

1.10Success rates#

A daily’s success rate appears in the Timeline’s Wk column (plus Mo and Yr on wide screens) and as Success rate (30 d) in its Daily history.

Success rate =days you hit divided by days planned while active

• A stretch day counts the same as a hit.
• Missed days count against you. Skipped days, days before the goal existed, archived days and future days are left out entirely.
• Unplanned hits are a bonus: they add to the days you hit but not to the days planned, so a rate can go above 100%.
• Today only counts once it’s decided: a Minimum hit, a Maximum breach, or a day you marked. An unplanned Maximum today never counts.
• If nothing was planned in the range, the cell stays empty rather than showing 0%.
• On the current week, Mo and Yr are month-to-date and year-to-date. On a past week they cover the month and year of that week’s first day. They’re hidden on future weeks.

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%
• 100%
• 125%

1.11Routines and activity kinds#

A routine is an ordered checklist you play through, like a morning routine or a workout. It has a name, color and icon, Days, Planned time:, Reminder: and a list of ACTIVITIES, with the total planned time in a pill.

A day with at least one run counts as done. Only finished runs are logged, and you finish by confirming at the end.

Each step is one of four kinds, chosen in the Add Activity sheet. The kind can’t be changed later.

• Picking a source fills in an empty name with the source’s name.
• If you delete a source, the routine steps that used it become plain timed Simple steps.
• The free plan allows 1 active routine; zoevo+ allows up to 99.

Pause, continue or discard

Leaving a routine halfway offers Pause and continue today (Resume from where you left off. Progress is dropped at midnight if you don't finish.) or Discard progress (Tallies, timer seconds, and focus sessions you've already counted will stay.). A paused routine shows Paused on its tile; tap it to resume. Paused time isn’t included in the logged duration, and a discarded run isn’t logged at all.

Templates

A new routine can start blank or from one of nine templates: seven daily ones (Wake-up, Pre-work, Commute, Midday, Pre-workout, Evening and Bedtime), each in S, M or L, plus Weekly review and Weekend reset, which come in a single version.

How toBuild a routineRun, pause or finish a routine

1.12Run mode and edit mode#

Run mode, the default, is for tracking. Edit mode is for building. Switch with the pencil in the top bar. In edit mode the sections turn turquoise, and each ends with an orange New tile.

Run mode

What tapping and long-pressing a tile does in run mode

Tile	Tap	Long-press
Tally goal	+1 today	− / + and Normal, Missed, Skipped
Stopwatch goal	Start / stop	Time chips and Normal, Missed, Skipped
Focus goal	Opens the timer and starts a session	− / + and Normal, Missed, Skipped
Weekly counting a daily	Shows a hint	Normal, Missed, Skipped
Routine	Runs it, or resumes a paused run	Normal, Missed, Skipped for today

Archived items are hidden in run mode. If nothing is active yet, zoevo keeps you in edit mode and the button is disabled.

Edit mode

• Tap a tile to open its editor; the orange New tile creates one.
• Long-press a tile for two buttons: archive or unarchive (grey, left) and delete (red, right). Archived items show greyed out.
• The middle toggle switches between Goals (the flag) and Sources (the layers). Leaving edit mode always takes you back to Goals.

Pinning and order

The star in an editor’s top bar (Pin / Unpin) puts the item first in its section once you save. Within DAILIES, tiles are ordered by:

1. active before archived,
2. pinned,
3. a running stopwatch,
4. not yet met, then missed, skipped, completed and not planned today,
5. planned time, earliest first,
6. Minimum before Maximum,
7. name.

WEEKLIES use the same order without the time. ROUTINES go pinned first, then still to do, missed, skipped and ran today, then the most recently run, then name. After you tap a tile it holds its place for a moment, then slides to its new spot.

1.13The run-list filter#

In Advanced run mode, the toggle on the left of the top bar decides which dailies and routines are listed. From left to right:

• Show only outstanding. Planned today and not decided yet. Done, missed and skipped dailies drop out, and so do routines that already ran or were skipped or missed.
• Show today’s planned. Default Only dailies and routines planned for today, including ones already done, skipped or missed.
• Show all. Every active daily and routine.

Weeklies are never filtered. zoevo remembers your choice on this device, and edit mode ignores it.

1.14Simple and Advanced#

Pick a mode under Account › MODE. It’s saved per device, and Advanced is the default.

Advanced

Mark strips, rings and time columns, every override and edit option within reach, the three-way filter and the tour button.

Simple

Tiles show a larger icon and the name, nothing else. Only today’s outstanding planned items are listed, with no filter and no tour button on the main screen.

In Simple mode an eye button (Show completed / Hide completed) reveals the rest, each with a badge in the middle:

• Done
• Missed, or cap breached
• Skipped
• Not planned today

A running stopwatch keeps its breathing border and pulsing dot and is never hidden. Long-press popups, the editors and the Timeline work exactly as in Advanced.

How toSwitch between Simple and Advanced

1.15The Timeline#

Open it with the grid icon on the main screen. The button opens the Legend, and a floating button jumps to the next section: Weeklies, Routines or Dailies.

Dailies

• The header shows the week, like “Sep 10 – Sep 16”. Use ‹ › or swipe to change week: back to the week of your oldest daily, forward to four weeks ahead.
• Each row has the daily’s tile, seven day cells in your week order, the Streak flame and the Wk success rate. Landscape adds Best; wide screens add Mo and Yr.
• A daily that was archived for the whole week has no row.
• Tap a daily’s own tile for its Daily history.

In the popup, Normal, Missed and Skipped only appear if the day was planned. The value buttons are always there, so you can backfill.

Weeklies — last 8 weeks

• Eight week cells, oldest on the left, under calendar week numbers, then a success rate.
• Tap the current or a past week for its popup, with override and value buttons.
• Long-press the weekly’s tile for its source history (not for weeklies that count a daily).

Routines — last 8 weeks

Each week cell is colored by how many planned days you ran the routine:

• Nothing planned
• No runs
• 1 run
• More runs
• Every planned day, or more

• Long-press a cell for a summary of the week, such as “3/5 planned”.
• Tap the routine’s tile or any of its cells for its history.

Locked items are read-only on the Timeline. Tapping one shows This item is locked. Upgrade to zoevo+ to use it. with Upgrade now.

On the free plan

Dailies go back 4 weeks before the current one; after that the back arrow turns into a lock (Full history). The weeklies section shows 5 weeks, the current one and 4 before it, even though its header says “last 8 weeks”. Routines always show 8.

How toRead the TimelineBackfill a day

1.16Histories#

On the free plan, Daily history pages back only as far as the Timeline does.

1.17Planning the week#

Your Week start (Account › PLAN THE WEEK, Monday by default) decides what a week is for weeklies, success rates and the Timeline, which day the weekly reminder comes, and when planning is offered.

The Plan the week screen

• Special days. Mark special days to highlight columns: tap day pills to tint those columns amber, for travel or an event. It’s a visual aid only and isn’t saved.
• Target week. The week you’re planning has an amber date pill with Target week underneath. On the first day of your week that’s the current week; on any other day it’s next week. Arrows move to other weeks.
• Rows. DAILIES and ROUTINES, seven cells each: a green outline is planned, blank isn’t, blue is skipped, red is missed.
• Whole days. The top row plans or clears a day in one tap. An empty box means nothing is planned (tap to plan everything), a single check means some are (tap to plan the rest), and an amber double check means all are (tap to unplan all). Past days are disabled.
• Edits save instantly. The green check (Done) or Back closes the screen and marks the target week as planned.
• Locked items and items archived that week aren’t listed.

Three ways in

1. The orange plan now button on the main screen. It appears on the last 2 days of your week and the first day of the next, until you’ve planned the target week, and only while Show plan button on home is on.
2. Account › PLAN THE WEEK › Plan coming week now, any time.
3. The optional Plan-the-week reminder, off by default, at 18:00: Plan the coming week, Open zoevo to review next week's plan. Tapping it opens the planner.

How toPlan the coming weekChange the week start

1.18The setup wizard#

On first launch, Welcome to zoevo asks how you’d like to begin:

Personalize takes four steps: your interests, how much time you have on weekdays and weekends, the parts of the day to anchor with routines, and a review where you can edit or remove every suggestion before anything is created. Get started walks through it.

Run it again later from Account › SETUP › Re-run setup wizard. It skips the welcome, starts from your last answers and keeps what you have: suggestions you already own are tagged Already there, and steps that would join a routine with the same name show as, for example, “+2 to morning”. It checks the free limits against what it will add.

1.19Notifications#

The running stopwatch notification

• With a daily on the source, the clock counts down to the daily’s target, then counts up the extra time. Without one it counts up today’s total.
• Once past the target, the title gets a check mark (Minimum) or a cross (Maximum).
• Pause stops the stopwatch at that moment, and the tiles show it stopped. Continue starts it again.
• With two or more running, they’re grouped under a summary such as “2 timers running”.

Permissions

• zoevo asks for notification permission at first launch, and again only when you turn on a daily reminder.
• If exact alarms aren’t allowed, Enable Alarms & Reminders appears at launch: Allow 'Alarms & reminders' so Focus timers alert you reliably and exactly on time. Tap Open Settings, or × to decide later.

1.20Home-screen widget#

zoevo’s widget is a single resizable 1×1 tile, linked to one source.

What a tap on a linked widget does

Linked to	A tap…
Tally	adds 1 to today, confirmed with “water +1”
Stopwatch	starts or stops it (“reading started”, “reading stopped”)
Focus	opens the timer and starts a session. A running session is just brought to the front and a paused one continues; a tap never restarts a session.

• A tap opens zoevo to act: tallies and stopwatches confirm with a short message, and focus shows the timer screen.
• A new widget is grey and says Tap to link. Tapping it opens Widget link. Pick a source and the widget takes its icon.
• Widget taps never close what you have open in zoevo: a running routine or timer stays put.
• If its source is archived or deleted, the next tap opens the link screen again.

How toAdd the home-screen widget

1.21Account, guest mode and sync#

The first time you sign in

• If the Google account has no zoevo data yet, your guest data moves into it.
• If the account already has data, you’ll see that data instead. Your guest data stays on the phone and comes back when you sign out.
• A free trial you started as a guest moves into the account.

What’s saved where

• On this device: display mode, the run-list filter, Show completed and the language.
• With your account: the week start and all Plan the week settings.

How toSign in and sync

1.22zoevo+ and the free plan#

• Goal history covers the dailies Timeline, Daily history and the weeklies section of the Timeline (see The Timeline). Routines always show 8 weeks.
• CSV export is planned for zoevo+ but isn’t available yet.
• Archived items don’t count toward the limits.
• At a limit you’ll see zoevo+ required, for example You've reached the free limit of 5 daily goals. Upgrade to zoevo+ for more., with Cancel and Upgrade now. A locked color or icon opens the same dialog.
• The free trial lasts 14 days, needs no sign-in, and works once per device and once per account.

Locked items

If a trial or subscription ends while you’re over the free limits, the newest items beyond the limit, by creation date, are locked. Nothing is deleted.

• They look normal but carry an orange lock badge. They can’t be run, edited or planned, and they’re read-only on the Timeline.
• Tap one for the Locked item sheet, with Upgrade now, archive and delete. Long-press also offers archive and delete.
• Archiving or deleting any item unlocks the next newest one. Upgrading unlocks everything.

The zoevo+ screen

Open it from the zoevo+ card on the Account screen or from any Upgrade now. Top to bottom: your status (Free tier or zoevo+ active, through Google Play, a promo code or the free trial, with the days left), Try zoevo+ free if you’re eligible, Sign in with Google when you’re signed out, Choose a plan with Monthly and Yearly at Google Play prices, Have a promo code?, Restore purchases and What you get.

How toTry, buy, redeem or restore zoevo+

1.23Archive or delete#

Before you confirm a delete, the dialog lists everything that goes with it under “Will also delete:”, and steps that will change under “Will convert to plain timed blocks:”.

How toPin, archive or delete

1.24Languages, help and tours#

• Languages. English and German. Account › PREFERENCES › Language offers Device language (the default; other device languages fall back to English), English and German. Goals the setup wizard creates are named in your device language.
• The first-run tour plays once after setup and can’t be replayed: Welcome to zoevo, Daily goals, Weekly goals, Routines, Goals & sources, Edit & run, Your progress, Account & sync, and You’re all set.
• Screen tours. The button (Tour this screen) explains the screen you’re on. It’s on the main screen in Advanced mode, the Timeline, the focus timer, the routine runner, every editor and picker, the history screens, Plan the week, the Account screen, the zoevo+ screen and New routine.

2.1Get started with the setup wizard#

1. Open zoevo and choose Personalize, Quick start with examples or Start empty. The steps below are for Personalize.
2. What do you want to track? Tap any of the 12 interests (Food, Fitness, Sleep, Focus, Reading, Calm, Creative, Home, Social, Outdoors, Money, Work), then Next. What’s in each? explains them.
3. How much time do you have? For Weekdays and Weekends, pick from none to a lot. Adjust per day lets you set each day separately.
4. Anchor your day? Tap the slots that should become routines (Wake-up, Pre-work, Commute, Midday, Pre-workout, Evening, Bedtime, Weekly review, Weekend reset). A slot you add starts at M; tap S, M or L to change its length. The help button at the top (What’s in each?) shows what each slot contains.
5. Looks good? Tap any suggestion to change its name, target, direction, planned days, source or color, or to remove it. Then tap Confirm.
6. If More than the free plan appears, choose Start 14-day free trial, redeem a promo code (this needs a Google sign-in), or Use free limits for now. With free limits everything is still created, and the newest extras are locked.
7. Allow notifications when Android asks. If Enable Alarms & Reminders appears, tap Open Settings and allow it, or × to decide later.
8. Follow the short tour, and you’re on the main screen.

Tip

Nothing here is final. Account › SETUP › Re-run setup wizard adds more later and keeps what you have. Quick start includes 2 routines, so on the free plan it asks about the trial too.

2.2Sign in and sync#

1. Tap the person icon at the top right. In a small window, use › Account.
2. Under ACCOUNT, tap Sign in and choose your Google account.
3. You’re back on the main screen with “Sign in successful” and your name.
4. On another phone, install zoevo and sign in with the same account.

2.3Create a daily goal#

1. On the main screen, tap the pencil (Switch to edit mode).
2. At the end of DAILIES, tap the orange New tile.
3. What do you want to track? Tap an existing source under TALLIES, TIMERS or FOCUS, or the New tile in one of them.
   • For a new source, type a name in the top bar, pick a Color and an Icon (for focus, also the Duration) and tap the green check. You go straight on to the goal.
4. In New daily, check the name (up to 10 characters) and choose Minimum or Maximum.
5. Set the target after at least: or at most:: a number of taps or sessions, or hours and minutes for a stopwatch.
6. Optional: + add stretch goal (Minimum only; it must be above the target).
7. Under SCHEDULE, tap the Planned days pills. Optionally set Planned time: and turn on Reminder:.
8. Optional: change the source’s color, icon or session length further down, or tap the star to pin the goal.
9. Tap the green check. You’re back on the main screen.

Heads-up

Color and icon belong to the source, so changing them here changes every goal and routine step that uses it. The plan only applies from today on; past days aren’t affected.

2.4Create a weekly goal#

2.5Log progress#

In run mode, tiles are buttons. What a tap does depends on the source.

Tally

Tap the tile to add 1. To fix a miscount, long-press and use − or +.

Stopwatch

Tap to start (the border starts breathing) and tap again to stop. To correct the time, long-press and use the chips +10', +1', −1', −10'.

Focus

Tap to open the timer and start a session (see Run a focus session). To log a session without the timer, long-press and tap +.

Weekly counting a daily

Log the daily; the weekly follows by itself.

Heads-up

On today’s stopwatch tile the chips change the number you see. While it counts down, −10' means 10 minutes less to go, which adds time. Past the target, or on past days, + adds time.

Mark today skipped or missed

Long-press a planned tile and tap for Skipped, for Missed, or the grey circular arrow for Normal. The popup closes after you choose.

2.6Run a focus session#

1. Tap a focus goal’s tile. The timer opens and starts counting down. The screen stays on while it runs.
2. Pause and continue with the pause/play button.
3. Done early? Tap Complete now. The session is logged straight away and the timer closes.
4. To give up, tap stop (or Back). Stop session? asks you to confirm: × keeps it running, the check stops it without logging anything.
5. When the time is up you’ll see Time’s up! and a big check. Tap anywhere to close. One session is logged.

Tip

Leaving the app doesn’t stop a session. It keeps counting in the notification, where Pause and Continue work with zoevo closed, and it’s credited even if Android closes the app.

Heads-up

Complete now is only on the timer screen, not in the notification. Inside a routine, a Focus step opens this same screen, so you can use it there too.

2.7Use a stopwatch and its notification#

1. Tap a stopwatch goal’s tile to start it. You can run several at once.
2. Pull down the notification shade. Each running stopwatch shows its clock, counting down to its daily’s target and then up the extra time.
3. Tap Pause to stop it. Time is credited up to that moment, and the tile shows it stopped.
4. Tap Continue to start it again, or tap the tile in zoevo.

2.8Build a routine#

1. In edit mode, tap New at the end of ROUTINES.
2. Choose Blank routine, or a slot under FROM A TEMPLATE. Daily slots then offer S, M or L; Weekly review and Weekend reset have a single ready-made version. A template fills in the steps, color, icon, days, time and any sources it needs; those sources are only created when you save.
3. Name it, then pick a Color and an Icon (Search helps). A yellow note warns you if another routine has the same name.
4. Tap the Days it’s planned on. Optionally set Planned time: and Reminder:.
5. Under ACTIVITIES, tap add activity and choose Simple, Tally, Focus or Timer.
6. Fill in the step:
   • a name and Place (optional),
   • for Tally, Focus and Timer, a Source (or New),
   • for Tally and Focus, the Count,
   • the Duration (Timer: Planned duration; Focus works it out for you),
   • for Simple, a color and an icon.
   Then tap the green check.
7. Drag the handles to reorder, tap a step to edit it, or tap the bin (Remove) to delete it. The pill shows the total planned time.
8. Tap the green check to save. If you back out of the editor instead, you return to the template picker.

Heads-up

A step’s kind can’t be changed afterwards: remove it and add a new one. The free plan allows 1 active routine.

2.9Run, pause or finish a routine#

1. In run mode, tap the routine’s tile. (A routine with no steps shows Empty routine.)
2. The strip at the top shows every step. A white border marks the current one; a check or skip badge marks steps done or skipped. Tap any step, then Jump here to go straight to it. Steps you jump over count as skipped.
3. Use the controls for the step (see activity kinds). Tally and Focus steps move on by themselves when the count is reached.
4. Along the bottom: Back to the previous step, Skip, and Complete. Skip and Complete are always side by side. Complete stays disabled on Tally and Focus steps until the count is reached, and on a Timer step until you’ve started it.
5. After the last step you’ll see “workout done” (with your routine’s name), plus how many steps you skipped and finished and the minutes it took. Tap the check (Complete routine) to log the run, or the back arrow to return to the last step.

Leaving early

Tap × or Back for Exit routine?:

• Pause and continue today: the tile shows Paused. Tap it any time today to pick up where you left off.
• Discard progress: the run isn’t logged, but tallies, stopwatch time and focus sessions already counted stay on their sources.
• Stay: back to the routine.

2.10Skip, miss or backfill a day#

Today

1. Long-press the tile of a daily, weekly or routine.
2. Tap the blue skip button for Skipped or the red cross for Missed. The grey circular arrow sets it back to Normal.

A past day of a daily

1. Open the Timeline and go to the week.
2. Tap the day’s cell.
3. Set Normal, Missed or Skipped (planned days only), and use + / − or the time chips to record what really happened that day.

A past week of a weekly

1. In the Timeline’s weeklies section, tap the week’s cell.
2. Use the override buttons, or + to add to that week’s last day (today, in the current week) and − to take away from its days, latest first.

You can also backfill from Daily history (tap a day) and Source history (tap a day, then − 1 / + 1, or the ±1m, ±10m and ±60m buttons for a stopwatch).

Heads-up

Past plans can’t be changed, only the state and the value. Backfilling updates streaks and success rates. On the free plan the dailies Timeline goes back 4 weeks.

2.11Read the Timeline#

1. Tap the grid icon on the main screen.
2. In Dailies, use ‹ › or swipe to change week. Tap the info button for the Legend.
3. Read each row left to right: the days of the week, the Streak flame and Wk, the week’s success rate. It can top 100%.
4. Tap today or a future cell to plan or unplan that day.
5. Tap a daily’s tile for its Daily history, long-press a weekly’s tile for its source history, or tap a routine’s tile for its routine history.
6. Use the floating button to jump between Dailies, Weeklies and Routines.
7. Turn your phone sideways for the Best streak and, on wide screens, the Mo and Yr rates.

2.12Plan the coming week#

1. Tap plan now on the main screen (it shows on the last 2 days of your week and the first day of the next), or go to Account › PLAN THE WEEK › Plan coming week now.
2. Optional: tap special-day pills to highlight columns, like a travel day.
3. Check the Target week under the dates. Use the arrows to plan a different week.
4. Tap cells to plan or unplan single goals and routines, or use the top row to plan or clear a whole day. Long-press today or a past cell to mark it skipped or missed.
5. Tap the green check. Your changes were already saved as you went.

Tip

Away for a day? Unplan it rather than skipping it. If you do the habit anyway, an unplanned day still counts as a bonus.

• Long-press plan now for Dismiss (done for this week) or Turn off.
• For a nudge, go to Account › PLAN THE WEEK, tap the time next to Plan-the-week reminder to change it, and turn on its switch.
• Opening the planner again later simply continues from the current plan.

2.13Add the home-screen widget#

1. Long-press an empty spot on your home screen, open the widget list, find zoevo and place the 1×1 tile.
2. Tap it (Tap to link). The Widget link screen opens.
3. Pick a tally, timer or focus source. The widget takes that source’s icon, and zoevo returns you to your home screen.
4. From now on, tap the widget to add 1, start or stop the stopwatch, or start or continue a focus session.

Tip

Add one widget per source you want at hand. To link a widget to a different source, remove it and add it again.

Heads-up

The link screen needs at least one source: Nothing to link yet — create a tally, timer, or focus source in the app first.

2.14Set reminders#

Where to set each reminder

Reminder	Where	Needs
Daily	Editor › Planned time:, then Reminder:	A planned time and Minimum
Routine	Editor › Planned time:, then Reminder:	A planned time
Weekly	Editor › REMINDER	Minimum
Plan the week	Account › PLAN THE WEEK › Plan-the-week reminder	Set the time, then the switch

If reminders don’t arrive

• Check that notifications are allowed for zoevo in Android settings, and that the channels “Daily reminders”, “Weekly reminders” and “Planning wizard” aren’t muted.
• Exclude zoevo from battery restrictions.
• Remember that reminders skip days that aren’t planned, are skipped or missed, or are already done, and that they may come a few minutes late.

2.15Switch between Simple and Advanced#

1. Tap the person icon to open the Account screen.
2. Under MODE, tap Simple or Advanced.
3. In Simple mode, use the eye button on the main screen to show or hide completed and not-planned items.

Tip

The mode is saved per device, so your phone and tablet can differ.

2.16Change the week start#

1. Open the Account screen.
2. Under PLAN THE WEEK, tap Week start and choose a day.

That changes:

• the order of the days on the Timeline,
• which days make up a week for weeklies and success rates,
• the day of the weekly reminder,
• and when the plan now button appears.

The day pills in the editors always start on Monday. The week start is saved with your account.

2.17Pin, archive or delete#

Pin

1. In edit mode, tap the item to open its editor.
2. Tap the star, then the green check.

Archive or unarchive

1. In edit mode, long-press the tile and tap the grey button on the left, or open the editor and tap the middle button of the bottom row. For a source, switch to Sources first.
2. Confirm with Archive (or unarchive).

Delete

1. Use the red button in the same places.
2. Read the “Will also delete:” and “Will convert to plain timed blocks:” lists, then confirm. Deleting can’t be undone.

Tip

Over the free limits? Archiving keeps all the history and frees a slot. See Archive or delete for what each one does.

2.18Try, buy, redeem or restore zoevo+#

2.19Delete your data or account#

1. Open the Account screen and scroll to DATA DELETION. Its info icon explains the differences.
2. Tap Delete timeline, Delete all data or Delete account.
3. Type DELETE to enable the button, then tap Delete.