How-tos

Real ways to use Fanad

One article per use case. They're independent — start with whichever matches your life — but the first one explains the core loop everything else builds on.

All commands shown work with or without the leading slash. Modules (Diet, Journal, Lists, Notes, Notebooks, Timer) are per-person and off by default — each article starts with its optin.

Getting it out of your head

The core loop: brain-dump everything, ask for one thing to do now, let stale tasks sleep. Read this one first.

Diet & meal tracking

Calorie logging that converges to three words a meal: confirm-once foods, saved meals, recipes by cooked weight.

The problem-solving journal

Finding slow patterns — “is it the dairy?” — with a daily checklist, a one-line note, and trend summaries that name their evidence.

Nested lists & groceries

The outliner for things that aren't tasks: groceries by aisle, packing lists, anything with an inside.

Planning a party with steps

Breaking a big vague task into a checklist, letting Fanad draft the steps with guess, and saving the shape as a template.

Household memory

Notes you get back by meaning, not exact words: the spare key, the wifi password, the furnace filter photo.

Reminders & deadlines

Putting time on tasks in plain words — by, on, remind me — plus the .ics calendar handoff and the at-most-one-ping promise.

Kitchen timers

The one-shot ding that never touches your list: pasta, laundry, and the 20-minute “just start” trick.

Routines without recurrence

Why Fanad has no recurring tasks, and what to use instead: templates, your own calendar, one-shot reminders, daily check-ins.

Notebooks: separate spaces

Isolated sub-spaces for a big project, a work/home split, or someone you're helping.