How the Cup works

Drops, the exact arithmetic behind them, why Me time gives instead of takes, and what the Cup screen shows.

The Cup is a day's worth of energy, measured in drops. You start the day with a full cup, tasks spend drops as you complete them, and rest puts drops back.

The arithmetic, in full

Drops left is your daily total, minus the cost of everything you have completed, plus anything you have logged as a refill. It never goes below zero and never above your daily total.

The word completed is doing real work in that sentence. Planning a heavy day does not empty your Cup. Doing it does.

Me time gives instead of takes

Completing a task in the Me time category adds a drop rather than spending one. That is on purpose. The twenty minutes you keep giving away is the thing that refills the cup, so the app counts it that way.

What the Cup screen shows, top to bottom

• The cup itself, with N of M drops left and a row of drop pips.
• Three numbers: Spent, Still ahead, and Refilled.
• A line telling you where you stand, from Full cup. Pace yourself. down to Your cup's empty. Rest counts too.
• Where today goes, a set of bars by category.
• Drained you today and Refilled you, as lists.
• Log a refill.
• How today runs down, a small curve from 5am to 9pm.
• A note from Junie about the shape of the day.

Next: setting your daily drops and logging a refill.