Forthday
A PRACTICAL GUIDE

A little clarity for the everyday.

Choose a topic for the details. Forthday is in Alpha; this guide describes the current behavior and its limits.

Install Forthday

Open Install app for Android, iPhone, iPad and computer instructions. In Android Chrome use the three-dot menu, then Add to Home screen or Install app. On iPhone or iPad open Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. Your records stay linked to your signed-in account.

Getting started

Use Today for your day, Plan for tasks and schedules, Kitchen for food and shopping, and Money for bills and spending. More contains optional tools. Your weekly review saves its progress in the current workspace. Settings lets you pin mobile destinations, hide optional sections, and choose comfortable or compact task rows.

Personal and Household

Personal records belong to your email account. Household records are visible to active household members. A member can edit; a view-only profile can read all shared records. To connect a partner, the household owner adds the email they use for Forthday. They confirm their email, sign in and select Household. Existing ChatGPT-linked records are not automatically transferred to an email account.

How balances work

Enter the bank balance before pending outflows. New spending reduces the tracked balance. Use Already included only when that spending is reflected in the last balance you entered. Clearing a transaction records bank status without subtracting it again. Reconciliation starts a new balance snapshot and includes prior deductions. Scheduled bills reserve money; marking them paid deducts once when requested. Never log the same purchase as both a bill payment and a separate expense. No money is transferred by this app.

Meals, stock, and shopping

Planning a measured meal reserves ingredients. On-hand stock changes when you mark the meal cooked. Missing measured ingredients flow into groceries. Review unknown units and imported ingredients. Shopping prices are optional totals for the quantity in each list row. The estimate is incomplete when items have no prices. Finish shopping reviews checked purchases, confirmed inventory quantities and one actual receipt total. Choose Already included when the purchase is reflected in your last balance update. Estimates do not automatically log spending.

Recipes and cooking

Import supported publisher links from Meals or share a recipe URL to the installed Android app. Review ingredients and instructions before saving. Cooking mode provides ingredient checkoffs, step navigation, a timer, and optional screen wake lock. The timer operates while its screen is open. Your household notes are separate from publisher ratings.

Calendars and reminders

Create repeating daily, weekly, or monthly plans. Removing a generated date skips that occurrence. Changing the original plan updates untouched future dates. Removing or stopping the original plan cancels untouched future dates, while individually edited occurrences are kept. Import .ics dated events or connect a published Google/Outlook feed. Refresh manually, or enable checks every 15 minutes while the app is open. Imported event details follow the source; assigned people are retained. Imported recurring events expand from 30 days ago through the next year, with exclusions and supported timezone data. Import up to 1,000 dates per source. Exported phone-calendar alarms are copies that you update manually. Background push requires device permission and an enabled device. Closed-app delivery is not active while its scheduled service remains unverified. Check Reminders for device and service status. The planned hourly sweep is not an exact-time alarm.

Offline lists

In Settings, create an encrypted grocery and recipe copy with an offline passphrase of at least eight characters. Unlock it to keep it fresh, then reopen the app without a connection to use the saved copy. Grocery checkoffs are reviewed in Settings when you reconnect. An offline copy belongs to one account and space. Sign-out clears device workspace copies and the offline copy.

Recovery, exports, and deletion

Trash keeps up to 300 deleted records per space. History keeps up to 300 previous edits. Restore a record after reviewing any linked payments or stock movements. Export a JSON backup for longer retention. Account controls let you delete Forthday data after explicit confirmation. Household owners must explicitly include their shared household when deleting their account data. This does not delete your sign-in account.

Suggestions and problems

Open your profile or Profile & suggestions. Anyone with site access can submit an idea or problem report. Austin receives it in a private product inbox with an unread badge. Submitters can see their own submissions and replies. The product owner can review all suggestions and mark them reviewing, planned, completed, or closed. Only minimal account and app context is included; leave out private household information.

Privacy and device storage

Cloud records are scoped to your verified account or household membership. Shared receipts follow the same boundary. The ordinary workspace device cache and exported backups are not encrypted. Optional offline lists are encrypted with your passphrase. Use sign-out on shared devices, and grant household access only to people who should see every shared section.

Optional closed beta

Settings → Open beta study contains invitation-based consent and first-use, day-seven, and day-fourteen surveys. Measurement is optional and stops after 14 days. You can withdraw and delete study measurements. Named suggestions go separately to the owner’s private inbox.

Give useful product feedback

Try inviting a partner, adding a recurring bill, and planning a dinner without help. Tell us where you paused, what you expected, and whether you finished. Do not include private account information. We use these observations to improve the next release.

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