How to use CapyPlan: ramble to Capy, check in daily, pick one area to grow

CapyPlan has a lot of small doors. You can plan a day in thirty seconds or spend a slow Sunday morning rating your whole life out of ten. This is the walkthrough we wish every new planner read first: three habits that make the app click, plus the quiet features that catch you when the plan falls over.

1. Don't know what to do? Ramble it out to Capy

The worst moment in planning is the blank page. You know you have things to do; you just can't see them in order. So don't try to. Open Capy (the chat) and dump everything on your mind as it comes: "need to call the dentist, the report is due Thursday, haven't been to the gym, mum's birthday, the kitchen is a mess." No structure, no bullet points, full sentences optional.

Capy reads the pile and hands it back as a plan: the tasks sorted, the scary one broken into a first step, and a gentle question about which single thing would make today feel like a win. Say yes to what fits and Capy drops them into Today. Anything without a time waits safely in Someday, your basket, until you're ready.

When the chat is empty you'll see suggestion cards, so you don't even have to type. The ones people use most:

• Help me plan. Starts the planning conversation from scratch.
• Just one thing for now. For days when a full plan is too much. Capy picks one.
• What can I drop? When the list is longer than the day. Capy helps you choose what rests.
• Break down "…". Appears next to a big task. Turns it into small, doable steps.
• Reschedule the ones I missed. Shows up when tasks have slid past their time. One tap, no guilt.

2. Check in with yourself every day, and get a plan that fits

Before you plan, CapyPlan asks how you are. The daily check-in on the Today tab takes about ten seconds: slide your mood from 1 to 10, slide your energy from 1 to 10, and tap any tags that describe the day: Restful, Sick, Pain, Period, Travel, Productive, Social, Creative, Low energy, or ones you add yourself. Capy changes pose to match (a sick-day Capy is very sympathetic) and gives you a one-line mantra for the day.

This is not just a mood diary. The check-in changes what Capy suggests. Log low energy and the next suggestion card is Something gentle for low energy: a plan built around one easy thing. Log a low mood and you'll see Something for a low mood, which leans toward small comforts and finishing nothing in particular. Log high energy and Capy will happily help you aim bigger. The plan is written for the person you are today, not the one you were hoping to be.

Over a few weeks, the Insights section turns your check-ins into a mood and energy chart, which is how most people discover things like "I always crash on Wednesdays" and finally stop scheduling hard things there.

3. Pick one area of life to improve, and let Capy suggest the steps

Open the menu at the top of Home and choose Wheel of Life. You'll rate eight areas from 1 to 10 by how full each one feels right now:

• Health: physical and mental health
• Creativity: making and self-expression
• Career: work and purpose
• Money: financial status
• Personal Growth: learning and growing
• Relationships: family and friends
• Recreation: work-life balance and fun
• Physical Environment: your space and surroundings

Tap an area, rate it, move to the next. There's no total and nothing to beat. The point is the shape: which slices are full, and which have quietly gone hungry. (If you like the idea but want it gentler still, we wrote about a version that rates attention instead of satisfaction.)

Then pick the one area you'd like more of. Tap it and choose Ideas for this area, or ask Capy in the chat with the Ideas for Health card (or whichever area you chose). Capy suggests small, concrete things, sized for a normal day: "do 5 push-ups, or whatever feels good today," "find one beautiful thing today," "note one thing I spent on today," "plan one small date idea." Touch and hold any idea to try it once today, or add it as a task. One area, one small act, and the wheel starts to round out by itself.

What happens when the plan falls apart

It will, and CapyPlan is built for that moment. A task you didn't get to doesn't turn red and doesn't go overdue. It floats back to your basket for a day when it feels possible. If something was too much today, you have three gentler options, right on the task:

• Tried. Touch and hold to mark it as tried. It counts. Your yuzu still goes in the bath.
• Make it gentle. Capy softens the task into a lower-pressure version of itself.
• Break it down. Capy splits it into steps small enough to start.

And when you want to focus, start the focus timer. The noise hides, Capy sits beside you, and the task is the only thing on screen until it's done or tried.

Closing the day

In the evening, Capy asks how the day went. You don't have to finish everything to call it a day: mark what you finished or tried, and anything left unmarked simply rests until tomorrow. If you want, reflect for a moment with Capy about what happened and how it felt, and the conversation is saved to your Journal. Then go soak.

A gentle first week

• Day 1: Check in, then tap Help me plan and ramble for a minute. Accept three tasks, not ten.
• Day 2 to 6: Check in each morning. Notice how the suggestions change with your energy. Mark at least one thing Tried on purpose, just to feel that it's fine.
• Day 7: Rate your Wheel of Life. Pick one hungry area. Ask Capy for ideas and add one to tomorrow.

That's the whole method. Check in, ramble, pick one thing, forgive the rest. CapyPlan is free to download; the Wheel of Life can be rated once every 30 days on the free plan, and Capy+ unlocks unlimited check-ins and chats.