Insights Plus
Insights shows how your plan is going, based on the time blocks you mark as complete. It reads one day at a time, or zooms out to a week or a month.
Open Insights
- On the timeline, tap the chart icon, next to the gear icon that opens Settings.
- Insights opens on the day selected in the timeline, with Day selected.
- Use the Day / Week / Month picker at the top to change the range.
- Swipe left or right to move to another day, week or month. When you are away from the current one, a button next to the picker brings you back to today.
- Tap the close button to return to the timeline.
Insights also opens when you tap the How did today go? reminder. See Daily Review Reminder.
Day
The Day view is split into four steps. Scroll up or down to move between them, or tap the step indicator on the right edge.
- Where you are: a ring with how many blocks are done (for example, 3 of 5 blocks done), and a headline for the day.
- Day load: how much of the day is planned.
- Reality check: your pace, the longest open stretch, and what is happening now or next.
- What now: the blocks that are still open and what to do with them.
All-day events are not counted as blocks.
Headlines
| Headline | When it shows |
|---|---|
| Open day | Nothing is planned on this day. |
| Ready | Today, before your day has started. |
| On track | Today, and completed work is close to the plan so far. |
| Ahead | Today, and completed work is ahead of the plan so far. |
| Behind | Today, and you are behind the plan so far, or a block ended without being completed. |
| Wrapped | Today after your day has ended with no missed blocks, or another day where every block is complete. |
| Day shape | Another day where some blocks were not completed. |
When your day starts and ends depends on your day start and end settings.
Pace
Pace compares what you have completed with how much of the plan has already passed:
- Plan so far: the planned time of every block that has ended, plus the part of the current block that has passed.
- Completed: the planned time of every block you marked as complete.
Today's headline follows this comparison:
- Ahead when completed time is more than 10% above the plan so far.
- Behind when completed time is below 70% of the plan so far, or when any block has ended without being completed.
- On track in between.
Pace only applies to today. For past and future days, Insights shows how many blocks were completed.
Day Load
Day load shows the time planned in blocks (planned), against the length of your day, and the time left with nothing planned (still open). Below it, one tile per block shows how many are complete.
Reality Check
Reality check shows:
- Your pace, for example Pace looks steady or 2 behind.
- The Longest uninterrupted stretch in the plan: the longest stretch of the day with nothing planned.
- Now: the block in progress, or Next: the next block that hasn't started.
- How many all-day events are also on the calendar, if any.
Tap a block to close Insights and open it on the timeline.
Still Open
The What now step lists the blocks that are not complete under Still open, in time order. Up to four are listed; the rest are counted (for example, +2 more).
- Missed: today, the block has ended and is not complete. These are the blocks that slipped.
- Now: the block is in progress.
When blocks slipped today, the title says how many (for example, 2 blocks slipped), and Insights suggests moving the ones that still matter into the longest open stretch of the day. On other days with incomplete blocks, it suggests giving the ones that still matter a new time.
Tap a block in the list to close Insights and open it on the timeline, where you can move it. Tap Done to close Insights.
Week and Month
Week shows one bar per day. Month shows the month as a calendar, with one tile per day. Each bar or tile fills with the share of that day's blocks that are complete.
Below the grid:
- Days fully cleared: how many days had every block completed, out of the days that had a plan and have already started (for example, 3 of 5). Days without blocks and future days are not counted.
- Streak: see Streak.
- Blocks done: completed blocks out of all blocks planned in the period.
- Time done: the planned time of the completed blocks.
- Best run: the most days in a row with every block completed within this period.
All-day events are not counted.
Tap a day in the grid to open it in the Day view.
Streak
The Streak card shows how many days in a row you have cleared.
- A cleared day is a day with at least one block where every block is complete.
- Days without blocks neither add to nor break a streak.
- Today doesn't break a streak while it is still in progress. It adds to the streak once every block is complete.
- A past day with an incomplete block ends the streak.
The card also shows:
- Best: your longest streak in the last 90 days.
- A strip of your last 14 days.
- Clear today to keep the run alive. when today isn't cleared yet, or Today is already cleared. Keep it going. when it is.
Align looks back over the last 90 days. If nothing in that window breaks your streak, the count ends in a plus sign (for example, 30+ days), because the streak may go back further.
Share
Share a day, week or month as an image.
- Tap the share button next to the date at the top of the page.
- Check the preview.
- For a day, turn on Include block names to list your blocks on the image. It is off by default.
- Tap Share image and choose where to send it.
Include block names: anyone you send the image to will be able to read them. Leave it off to share only the numbers.
The image shows the date, the numbers for the day or period, and Align's web address. The share button only appears when there is something to share: a day needs at least one block, and a week or month needs at least one day with a plan that has started.
Requires Align Plus
Insights is part of Align Plus. Without it, you can still open Insights, switch between Day, Week and Month, and swipe between dates:
- The Day view shows the ring with how many blocks are done. The headline, the pace and the other steps are blurred.
- The Week and Month views show the dates. The grid, the totals and the streak are blurred.
- Tap anything blurred to open Align Plus. The offer at the bottom of the screen (See how your days really go) lets you subscribe without leaving Insights, or tap See everything in Align Plus to read about the plan first.
- You can share a day. The image shows how many blocks are done, without the headline. Sharing a week or month needs Align Plus.
Tips
- Mark blocks as complete as you finish them. Insights only counts what is marked complete. See Complete Time Blocks.
- When Still open shows Missed blocks, give the ones that still matter a new time on the timeline.
- Set your day start and end so Day load and the headlines match your real day.
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