Metered Help & Guide
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Getting started
What is spoon theory?
Why Metered uses spoons, and how that turns limited energy into a plan.
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Your energy budget
How your daily spoon total is set, adjusted, and shown on Today.
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Activity library
Where activity, energy tax, and recovery costs come from, how to customise them, and how Quick Add favourites work.
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Categories
How to create, reorder, archive, and restore the categories used by activities, energy taxes, and recovery.
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Planning your day
The shortest path to building, editing, copying, and lightening a daily plan.
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Condition profiles
How selected conditions tailor activities, symptoms, starting budgets, and specialised features.
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Traffic light status
The traffic light in the Today toolbar gives you an at-a-glance energy status.
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Week strip
The week strip at the top shows 7 days at a time.
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Focus mode
On brain fog days, tap the brain icon in the toolbar.
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Demo mode
Demo mode loads 90 days of realistic sample data so you can explore everything Metered offers — crash signals, insights, charts, reports, and all Metered+ features — without waiting weeks for your own data to build up.
Getting started
Metered+
What remains free, what Metered+ unlocks, and how restore or demo mode behaves.
Getting started
Condition insights
Go to More › Support › Condition Insights for personalised energy management tips based on your selected conditions.
Planning your day
Adding activities
Tap “Manage” next to Today’s Plan and choose “Add Activities” to open the picker.
Planning your day
Quick add bar
The pill strip above your plan is your Quick Add bar — a shortcut to the activities you add most.
Planning your day
Describe your day
Type what you need to do in natural language: “cook, shower, doctor visit”.
Planning your day
Same as yesterday
On low-energy days when planning itself costs spoons, tap “Same as yesterday” to copy the previous day’s plan in one tap.
Planning your day
Copy plans
Had a good day? Copy its plan to another day from Today’s Plan › Manage › Copy from Another Day.
Planning your day
Day templates
Save a good plan as a template: “My Tuesday always looks like this.
Planning your day
Recovery days
When you mark “Led to a crash” in Day Review, choose when PEM started: next day, 2 days later, or 3 days later.
Planning your day
Must-do activities
Swipe right on an activity to toggle must-do, or long-press and tap “Mark as Must-Do”.
Planning your day
Event planning
Tap “Plan Event” in the Manage menu to schedule a big event like a wedding, doctor visit, or birthday.
Planning your day
Activity sequencing
Tap “Optimise Order” in the Manage menu to rearrange your activities for better pacing.
Planning your day
Pacing / hyperfocus timers
Set a time limit on any activity in the Activity Editor, then start it from the planned activity menu on iPhone or Apple Watch.
Tracking & review
Day review
At the end of the day, use the Review today card below your activities to rate how it went (1–5), mark which entries happened or were completed (with an actual-cost stepper for anything that cost more or less than expected), log symptoms and sensitivities, and note whether you crashed.
Tracking & review
Check-ins
Tap “Check in” on Today whenever you want to record how you feel now.
Tracking & review
Symptom tracking
Quick-tap symptom tags in the day review: brain fog, fatigue, pain flare, overstimulated, and more.
Tracking & review
Sensitivity tracking
Track light, noise, touch, social, and temperature sensitivity from the sensitivity strip on the Today screen (“How are your senses today?”).
Tracking & review
Today guidance
Today keeps guidance scan-friendly by showing one primary guidance card first, then only short secondary notes when useful.
Tracking & review
Crash signal
Metered analyses your plan, recent history, symptoms, and sensitivities to surface a crash signal when today’s load looks risky.
Tracking & review
PEM warning signals
If you’ve logged symptoms during day reviews, Metered can surface a planning warning when today’s symptoms resemble repeated associations in your reviewed entries, such as “Brain fog and fatigue appeared before crash-marked days.
Tracking & review
Delayed PEM triggers
Post-exertional malaise (PEM) is often delayed.
Tracking & review
Cost learning
Over time, Metered spots which activities repeatedly appear on your crash-marked days and suggests personal cost adjustments.
Tracking & review
Variable activity costs
The same activity can cost different amounts on different days.
Your budget
Budget adjustments
What can raise or lower today’s budget, and where to inspect the calculation.
Your budget
Budget display
All free and Metered+ budget display styles, with guidance on which one to choose.
Your budget
Flare mode
Tap “Flare” in the action row when today is a flare day.
Your budget
Flare recovery
When you activate flare mode, Metered offers a recovery plan for the days ahead.
Your budget
Two-thirds safety margin
Enable Two-Thirds Safety Margin in More › Budget.
Your budget
Neurodivergent mode
Enable in More › Preferences.
Your budget
Masking costs
When Neurodivergent Mode is enabled, you can set a masking level on any activity: Light (+25%), Moderate (+50%), or Heavy (+100%).
Health & sensors
Sleep
If Health is enabled, Metered reads your sleep from Apple Health.
Health & sensors
Weather
If Weather is enabled, Metered reads barometric pressure via WeatherKit.
Health & sensors
Menstrual cycle
If Periods is enabled in Preferences, Metered reads your cycle phase from Apple Health, or from shared data if you use Tended or Steadied and haven’t granted HealthKit access.
Your budget
Spoon debt
If a recent day went over budget, the overspend is subtracted from today’s budget.
Your budget
Multi-day carry-over
PEM can be delayed, with symptoms typically worsening 12–48 hours after activity.
Your budget
Guided assessment
During onboarding, three questions help you find your starting budget: how many activities you can do, whether you can shower and cook in one day, and how often you have really difficult days.
Your budget
Energy types
Every positive-cost activity or energy tax draws on one of three effort dimensions: physical, cognitive, or social.
Health & sensors
Heart rate threshold
How Metered estimates a pacing threshold from Apple Watch data, and the limits of that estimate.
Health & sensors
POTS features
POTS-specific pacing aids for heart rate, hydration, standing checks, and budget context.
Health & sensors
Orthostatic test
A short standing check for tracking heart-rate change, not a diagnosis.
Health & sensors
Hydration tracking
How hydration from Apple Health can support POTS pacing when your clinician agrees.
Health & sensors
Notifications
Notifications are in More › Preferences › Notifications.
Health & sensors
Morning signal
How overnight HRV, resting heart rate, and sleep become a gentle morning pacing signal.
Insights & charts
Insights hub
The Insights tab gives you a bird’s-eye view of your energy patterns.
Insights & charts
Check-in patterns
How structured check-ins build private on-device patterns, when findings appear, and what Metered+ unlocks.
Insights & charts
Energy trends
See your daily spoon usage over time as a line chart with your budget shown as a dashed line.
Insights & charts
Crash patterns
Review how often you marked a crash and which patterns appear alongside those records.
Insights & charts
Energy debt insights
Visualise your energy debt — the cost of borrowing from tomorrow.
Insights & charts
Daily balance heatmap
A heatmap calendar showing how well you stayed within budget each day.
Insights & charts
Energy use
See where your spoons go over time.
Insights & charts
Energy type trends
A stacked area chart showing how your physical, cognitive, and social effort changes over time.
Insights & charts
Seasonal patterns
After 30+ days of tracking, Metered reveals monthly patterns: which months are historically hardest, crash rates by month, and proactive warnings when your toughest month is approaching.
Sharing & carers
Share your status
Tap the share icon in the Today toolbar to generate a status card image showing your traffic light, spoon level, symptoms, and sensitivities.
Sharing & carers
What helps me guide
Fill in what you need and what you can do at each energy level in More › Sharing / Self-care › What Helps Me.
Sharing & carers
Flare plan
Write down what helps during a flare so you or your carer can refer to it when thinking is hard.
Sharing & carers
Emergency info card
Quick-access card with your conditions, current medications, emergency contact, and important notes.
Sharing & carers
Share reminders
Set up a daily reminder to share your status with your carer in More › Preferences › Notifications.
Sharing & carers
Crash sharing
Tap the heart-bolt icon in the Today toolbar to open Quick Needs and broadcast a one-tap signal to your carer.
Sharing & carers
Share with carer
What a carer can see, what stays private, and how to stop sharing.
Sharing & carers
Quick needs
Pre-configured one-tap buttons that broadcast a short signal to your carer (“Need quiet”, “Bring water”, “No questions right now”).
Sharing & carers
Between us
A private journal shared between you and your carer.
Sharing & carers
Apple Watch & Widgets
Budget and Quick Needs surfaces outside the main app, including widgets and Apple Watch.
Sharing & carers
Siri & Shortcuts
Low-effort voice and Shortcuts actions for Quick Needs and carer communication.
Data & privacy
iCloud sync
Your Metered data syncs between your own devices via your personal iCloud account.
Data & privacy
Backup & restore
Back up all your Metered data — plans, activities, check-ins, outcomes, events, templates, and settings — to a single file.
Data & privacy
Tended import
Already use Tended? Choose Copy from Tended in More › Data to skip the cold start.
Data & privacy
Connected apps
Connected Apps is in More › Preferences › Connected apps.
Data & privacy
Energy reports
Generate a PDF energy report in More › Reports.
Data & privacy
OT pacing diary
Generate a structured pacing diary PDF for your occupational therapist in More › Reports › Pacing Diary.
Data & privacy
Appointment prep report
Generate a focused appointment prep PDF in More › Reports.
Data & privacy
PEM / Crash pattern report
Generate a PEM / Crash Pattern PDF in More › Reports.
Data & privacy
Event recovery report
Generate an Event Recovery PDF in More › Reports.
Data & privacy
CSV export
Export your last 90 days of planning data as a CSV spreadsheet from More › Data.
Data & privacy
App lock
Enable App Lock in More › Preferences to protect Metered with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode.
Data & privacy
Re-run setup
Go to More › Profile › Re-run Setup to go through the onboarding flow again.
Data & privacy
Data controls
Sync, backups, imports, exports, deletion, and sensitive-data safety notes.
Data & privacy
Privacy
Where Metered stores data, what Cocoacorn cannot see, and what only shares by choice.
Data & privacy
Sources & references
Primary references behind Metered’s pacing, PEM, POTS, and privacy guidance.