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TINKRR Game of Life Guide
TINKRR is built around one loop: define what matters, record what actually happened, measure progress, and adjust the plan. This guide explains how the major areas work and how settings connect across the platform.
Quick Start
Build your purpose tree
Use Purpose to create goals and projects under Me, Myself and I. Add start dates, deadlines, colors, descriptions, and child nodes so the app understands your direction.
Record the day
Use Record to set your mode, happiness rating, selected project, focus time, and journals for the active date.
Review and adjust
Use You for focus rollups and tree relationships, then refine priorities, parent links, deadlines, and metrics from the node details.
Dashboard Basics
The dashboard is driven by the selected date in the header. Use the date picker, previous and next buttons, or Today control to move through time. Record shows data for that day, Purpose centers the timeline around that date, and You uses the date and year to frame focus analytics.
The bottom navigation has four primary areas: Purpose for long-term planning, Record for daily input, You for analytics and tree relationships, and Settings for account and app behavior. The header avatar shows your profile image, the streak badge tracks the Me, Myself and I habit trail, and the ticker shows starred metric trends from project data pools.
Purpose
Purpose nodes
A purpose node is a goal, project, habit, or life area. Nodes can sit under parent nodes, creating a tree from broad direction to concrete actions. Each node can have a title, emoji, color, description, start date, deadline, completion date, hidden state, and child branches.
Timeline
The Purpose timeline shows planning on the right, present-day signals on the left, and public holidays in the center lane. Switch Day, Week, Month, or Year views depending on how far ahead you want to plan.
Filters and search
Filters include All, For date, For date + hidden, Past deadline, Upcoming, Completed, No deadline, and Hidden. Search can jump to related journals, statuses, holidays, projects, and metric notes from the Purpose view.
Node details
Opening a node gives you details, planning controls, a Data Pool, and linked journals. Use these tabs to refine the node, add measurements, and see the evidence connected to it.
Record
Record is the daily control center. Set your mode emoji and mood text, choose a happiness rating, select the project you are working on, create a journal, and review Focus today. Happiness is saved as a protected metric in the me, myself and I Data Pool.
Project selection uses the same date logic as Purpose. A project appears for a date when it has started, has not passed its deadline, and has not already been completed before that day. The picker can also show hidden, overdue, upcoming, completed, or no-deadline projects.
When the focus timer is enabled in Settings, the Focus In/Out button appears on Record for Today. Start it after choosing a project. Focus activity can also be added, edited, or deleted manually from the Focus activity panel.
Journals
Journals capture the narrative layer of the app. A journal can have a date, subject, emoji, rich text body, purpose tag, banner image, and image attachments. Tagging a journal to a purpose node makes it appear in that node's journal tab and as a marker on the Purpose timeline.
Journal images use the app upload flow, storage quota accounting, and signed reads. Deleting a journal also deletes the images attached to that journal.
Data Pool and Metrics
Metric keys
Each purpose node has its own Data Pool. Add metric keys for readings such as cash, weight, sleep, sales, study hours, or any other measurement tied to that node.
Metric types
Metrics can be Number, Currency, Percent, or Score. Units control display, target sets the desired value, tolerance defines an acceptable range, and direction decides whether higher or lower values count as improvement.
Manual and calculated
Manual metrics accept entered values. Calculated metrics use formulas. Strict mode requires every referenced metric on the same date, Loose skips missing values in aggregates, and Loose + latest carries forward the latest prior reading when needed.
Aggregation and ticker
Grain groups raw entries by individual entry, day, week, month, or year. Method summarizes each group with mean, median, max, min, sum, or count. Starred metrics feed the header ticker.
You
You is the analytics and relationship view. It shows the purpose tree, yearly focus allocation, branch minutes, direct minutes, deadlines, completion status, hidden status, and sibling priority.
Use this area to understand where time is going. You can open more node information, move sibling priority up or down, or change a node's parent while keeping its branch intact.
Settings
Week starts onChanges weekly ranges, week progress, and weekly rollups across Record, Purpose, and analytics.
Public holiday countryControls the public-holiday lane in the Purpose timeline. Countries marked with no data still save, but may not show holiday chips.
Show Focus In/Out buttonShows or hides the live focus timer on Record. Manual focus sessions remain available from Focus activity.
Compress images before uploadApplies to new profile, journal, banner, and attachment uploads so storage usage stays lower.
BirthdayPowers the dashboard birthday celebration when the selected date matches your birthday.
Profile pictureUpdates the header avatar. Crop and zoom settings decide how the image appears in the dashboard frame.
Settings also includes storage usage, Install App for PWA setup, the dashboard walkthrough, feedback, account email, and logout.
How Everything Connects
Date selection: the active date controls Record, anchors Purpose, filters project availability, and frames analytics.
Purpose nodes: nodes organize journals, focus sessions, metrics, deadlines, colors, branch relationships, and timeline placement.
Focus:live and manual focus sessions save to the selected project, update daily focus totals, and create protected Focus Time metric entries in that node's Data Pool.
Metrics: manual and calculated values live on purpose nodes. Starred metrics appear in the header ticker with latest value, delta, target distance, tolerance, and sparkline. Happiness lives as a protected score metric under me, myself and I.
Journals: journal tags connect narrative evidence to projects, timeline markers, search results, and node journal tabs.
Completion and hidden states: completed projects stay available on their completion date, then leave normal date filters. Hidden projects are excluded unless you use hidden-aware filters.
Recommended Routine
- At the start of the week, review Purpose and adjust deadlines, child nodes, and priorities.
- Each day, select the date, set your mode, choose a project, and record focus or journal notes.
- When a project needs measurement, open its Data Pool and add a metric key or calculated metric.
- Star only the metrics you want to watch every time you open the dashboard.
- Use You to compare where focus time is actually going against the purpose tree you intended.
- When deleting or moving a purpose branch, use the migration prompts to move or delete linked journals, metrics, and Focus Time safely.