Run your week in twelve moves.

Set your one thing.

Every morning, open Study OS and tap SET FOCUS. Type the single most important task for the day — the one thing that, if you do it, the day was a win. This becomes your Anchor. It sits at the top of your dashboard all day so you can't forget.

1. Tap SET FOCUS — the red button at the top right.
2. Type one task. Tag it with a program (MDes / MPA) and priority.
3. It anchors the dashboard until you hit Edit or set a new one tomorrow.

Run a Pomodoro.

Below the Anchor sits the Pomodoro. Tap START. Work for 25 minutes. The ring fills. A chime sounds. Take a 5-minute break. Repeat. The terminal-style readout shows what phase you're in and how much time is left.

1. Pick your duration: 25M focus, 45M deep work, 5M / 15M for breaks.
2. Tap START. The ring counts down. The dot orbits.
3. When it ends, rate the session — good / okay / poor — so the system learns your pattern.

Drop in syllabi & screenshots.

A new syllabus, an email about a paper, a screenshot of an assignment list — all of it goes into Intake. Drop the file (PDF, image, text), and Study OS uses Claude to extract assignments, due dates, and readings. You confirm what gets added. No manual entry.

1. Tap INTAKE in the sidebar (or the button on the dashboard).
2. Drop a PDF, paste text, or upload a screenshot.
3. Review what Claude extracted, hit MERGE, items appear in your queues.

See what's due now.

Scroll down on the dashboard to QUEUES. Three accordion cards: Today's Agenda, This Week, Anytime. Tap any card to expand. Each item shows the program (MDes / MPA / AI), title, and a colored urgency tag (overdue, due tomorrow, on track).

1. Today's Agenda auto-expands on mobile — your most urgent items.
2. Tap any card head to expand or collapse.
3. Tap an item to focus on it (becomes the next Anchor candidate).

Read your vital signs.

Five compact icon-rows tell you instantly whether you're on track: Pomodoros today, Readings done, Tasks pending, Weeks to term, Days to next deadline. The card background colors itself by urgency — pink means alert, green means good, neutral means on track. No charts to interpret. Just glance.

1. Tap the Vital Signs section label to expand.
2. Each row: icon · label · value · mini-viz on the right.
3. Card color = state. Pink = act today. Green = doing fine.

Plan the whole week.

Sunday night: open Planner → tap Generate Week. Study OS reads your deadlines, your reading queue, your Pomodoro pattern from past weeks, and proposes a schedule. Tap ACCEPT to write it to the calendar. You can drag blocks to refine. Done in 3 minutes instead of 30.

1. Open Planner from the sidebar (07).
2. Tap Generate Week — Claude proposes a schedule based on your data.
3. Adjust or accept. Calendar updates instantly.

When you're overwhelmed.

Brain frozen? Ten things due, can't pick one? Tap OVERWHELM in Quick Tools. Six guided steps walk you out of the spiral: dump the cloud → name the heaviest → break it into the next 10 minutes → start. The interface goes minimal so nothing else competes for attention.

1. Tap OVERWHELM in Quick Tools (or the sidebar, item 03).
2. Move through the 6 steps — answer one prompt per screen.
3. Out the other side: a single 10-minute action staring at you.

End-of-week review.

Friday afternoon, Study OS prompts a 5-minute review: wins, drops, next intention. Three text fields. What worked. What didn't. What you're carrying forward into Sunday's planning. The system uses your answers to tune next week's generated schedule.

1. Tap REVIEW in Quick Tools when the Friday badge appears.
2. Three short prompts — wins, drops, next intention.
3. Save → flows into Sunday's Weekly Generator as input.

The Claude / JSON loop, demystified.

When you drop a syllabus into Intake, Study OS doesn't parse it itself — it gives you a ready-made prompt to paste into Claude (claude.ai), Claude returns structured JSON, and you paste it back. This four-step round trip is the most powerful capture in the whole app, and it's the part most people don't understand. Here it is, frame by frame.

Where your data lives (& how to back it up).

Your data lives in three places at once, and each one protects against a different kind of loss. Browser storage is fast but fragile. Vault JSON files are durable and portable. iCloud sync makes both cross-device. Here's the picture.

One-time setup, only on desktop Chrome/Edge. Settings → Connect Vault → pick the School/StudyOS/data/ folder. After that, every save writes to disk automatically. Browse to data/ in Finder to see your files. iCloud takes over from there.

1. Open Settings from the sidebar.
2. Tap Connect Vault. Browser asks for folder permission.
3. Pick School/StudyOS/data/ in your vault. Done.

Sort & organize.

Every item carries three signals: program (red MDes / indigo MPA / green AI), status (todo / in-progress / done), and urgency (auto-calculated from due date). The list view always shows them. Filter chips at the top let you slice instantly.

1. Filter chips (top of any module): All · MDes · MPA · AI · Done.
2. Each row: program color stripe on left + colored urgency tag on right.
3. Drag the handle (≡) to reorder within a list.
4. Tap an item → modal opens with full details + actions (edit, complete, delete).

Shortcuts, themes & focus modes.

A few small things that compound into hours saved over a 4-year program. Memorize these.