LifeCycle user guide

Open Planning to review clothing suggestions and reminders from the sections you use. Reminders are grouped as Overdue, Due Soon, and Upcoming.

Use it as a starting point

1. Review work that is overdue or approaching its due date.
2. Open a reminder to review the item and its available actions.
3. Record work when you complete it. Check the saved date and task before confirming.

Your alert profile controls advance visibility. A quiet Planning view does not necessarily mean there are no records or future tasks; check the relevant section and its time-horizon settings.

Clothing suggestions use your logged wears and available items. Logging an outfit updates the clothing records.

Reminders use recorded dates, intervals, and your alert settings. Check the due date on the item itself when deciding what to do.

• Overdue: the due date has passed.
• Due Soon: the item is inside a near-term alert window.
• Upcoming: advance visibility when your profile and settings include it.

Colors and advance notice

Red, yellow, and blue indicate different pre-due windows. A red indicator does not necessarily mean an item is already overdue. The profiles below all include a red window of 0–2 days before the due date. See Settings and alert profiles for the full ranges.

Snooze a reminder

Where snoozing is available, choose a supported 1-, 3-, or 7-day option. The snooze must end before the due date. Overdue items and items due within 24 hours cannot be snoozed.

Snoozing defers a reminder; it does not complete the work or change the underlying due date. The available controls depend on the item and its state.

Add the shirts you want to track, then log wears and washes. Wear counts, last-worn dates, and availability help LifeCycle suggest what to wear and flag laundry needs.

Optional garment details

In Add or Edit, enter a nickname, brand, style, and color if useful. Choose named colors from the palette or enter your own, and use the calendar for a purchase date. More details includes fabric percentages, purchase price and currency, and a searchable country of manufacture. Brand and style suggestions come from your saved entries, not an online product catalogue.

Statistics and retirement

Open clothing statistics to review active and retired garments, recorded wears and washes, and each item’s details and history. When removing a garment, choose retirement with a reason to preserve its history, or explicitly choose permanent deletion. Retired garments can be restored. Statistics reflect recorded activity; older unrecorded or cleared history cannot be reconstructed.

Rotation suggestions

• Recency is the main factor; relative wear counts also help balance rotation.
• Never-worn items are prioritized to enter rotation.
• Items needing ironing or at their maximum wear limit are excluded from suggestions until their state is updated.
• Use a shirt’s three-dot menu to Pause or Resume it in Planning. Pausing removes it from suggestions and available-wear calculations without deleting its wear or care history. A pause symbol on the image or placeholder indicates the saved state.

Keep the records current

A logged wear increases the count and updates the last-worn date. Record a wash when appropriate to reset availability. Recommendations and capacity estimates depend on what you have logged; they cannot detect unrecorded wear or laundry.

Planning can show shirt and pants suggestions for your selected category. Review the chosen items before logging an outfit.

Pants rotation uses the time since an item was last worn. Items that have gone longer without a wear move toward the top of the recommendations.

Log a wear to update the item’s count and last-worn date. Use the item’s controls to review or edit its details. Planning lets you review pants alongside shirt suggestions.

Use Vehicle Service to keep maintenance tasks and completed service records together.

1. Select or add the vehicle you want to track.
2. Set up the service task and its interval.
3. Record the last completed service date where applicable.
4. Review the next due date and log the work after it is completed.

For interval-based tasks, the next date is calculated from the completion date and interval. Choose intervals appropriate to your vehicle and service guidance; LifeCycle tracks the schedule you provide.

Service reminders appear according to their dates and alert settings. You can also find Vehicle Service records through search.

Home organizes records as Property → System → Asset or fixture → Component or consumable. Keep maintenance and repairs with the item they concern.

1. Select the property and system.
2. Add or select the asset, then its component or consumable if needed.
3. Create the appropriate scheduled task.
4. When recording work, confirm whether the task belongs to the whole asset or a specific component.

Use the associated history, provider details, documents, and photos to keep context with completed work. Maintenance and Planning surface scheduled tasks using their due dates and alert settings.

Home Find & Log helps find the relevant item and task. It asks for missing details and presents a review before saving.

Search starts in your current supported section. Select All sections to include Home, Clothes, Vehicle Service, the Ledger, and Favorite products. Results are grouped by section when needed.

Search by a name or a supported activity phrase. Clothes and Ledger results scroll into view with a border highlight. Other results open the relevant record or its existing controls.

Review before saving

Home Find & Log guides you through choosing the item and scheduled task, filling in missing details, and reviewing completed work. Search does not log activity automatically.

Optional on-device assistance

Local matching works without AI. Gemini Nano assistance for Home Find & Log is an optional beta setting, off by default. Device support determines whether it is available. A model download, if needed, requires confirmation.

There is no cloud-search fallback. If assistance is unavailable or fails, local search remains usable. Hard Drives, Facilities, and Travel are not currently included in search.

• Airport Parking: record your parking details and photos for later reference.
• Hotel: keep stay details, including the room number.
• Rental Cars: keep company, agreement and booking references, and optional Pickup and Return locations and dates. Capture photo or video walkarounds and record condition notes without additional required vehicle-identification fields.
• Flight Credits: record airline credits and their expiration dates.

Rental-car records support PDF reports and complete ZIP exports. Location metadata is optional. These exports organize the records you captured; they do not guarantee acceptance in a dispute.

Walkaround records and reports

Pickup and Return records keep completion times, media counts, and their condition notes together. Report pages group each photo’s or video’s recorded details under File & capture and Location, with full original-file SHA-256 fingerprints. Device location, embedded location, capture time, and the time media was added are distinct; unavailable details are identified rather than inferred.

Manage Evidence lets you add media or remove it from the current walkaround. Removing previously saved media requires confirmation: saving the change retains the original and removal history for rental-record exports. Consider adding photos to clarify the condition instead. Cancelling the editor leaves the saved record unchanged. Removing a new, unsaved capture deletes that draft, while deleting the entire rental permanently deletes its current and retained media.

The PDF includes Walkaround history, export and preservation notes, and a linked report disclaimer. Photo previews and video stills are derived renderings; choose the complete ZIP for available original media and the machine-readable JSON record. Missing notes do not mean no damage, and reports are not independently notarized or cryptographically signed.

Rental notes use sentence-capitalization hints, with keyboard-aware save controls. Past-rental ranges show both full dates and years. Flight Credit entry dialogs also adjust for the keyboard.

Travel-related visibility can depend on your travel state. Open Travel directly to review its records.

Use the Ledger to organize recurring bills and subscriptions, with due dates, completion history, and notes. It tracks your records; it does not make payments or verify bank transactions.

Set up a recurring item

1. Enter the item’s details, due date, and recurrence.
2. Identify whether it is manual or autopay.
3. Review upcoming items using search, payment-type filters, and the available time horizon.
4. For manual items, record completion when appropriate. Recurring dates advance according to the item’s schedule.

Autopay entries advance automatically for tracking purposes. Confirm actual payment status with your payment provider.

Review and correct records

Use completion dates and notes to review past activity. Edit details, recurrence, or dates when they change. Record history reflects entries in LifeCycle and should not be treated as independent proof of payment.

Keep product information in Favorites and track products in use. Review the existing entry and its controls when updating a product record.

Favorite products are included in supported local search. Use the product name to find an entry without navigating through the full list.

Track physical drives and their backup cycles. Update the record after using a drive so the app can show how long it has been since the recorded activity.

This section tracks your backup routine. It does not perform a computer or drive backup for you, and it is separate from backing up LifeCycle itself.

Use the Facility Log for timestamped events that do not fit a recurring schedule. Review or update entries through the section’s existing controls.

Open statistics to see total recorded visits, the first recorded date, and average and median days between visits. Averages require at least two entries and use the gaps between consecutive records, not visits per day. Missing entries can change the result.

Facilities are not currently included in cross-section search.

Automatic Complete Backup

In Settings, connect a backup folder and enable daily or weekly complete ZIP backups. Choose device storage or a cloud folder exposed by a compatible Android storage provider. Not every cloud app supports folder selection; a Google account alone does not connect Google Drive. Keep a copy outside your phone to protect against loss or replacement.

Complete ZIP backups include app records, app settings, and supporting media such as photos, documents, and rental evidence. Automatic backups retain the latest three copies. Review the last successful backup, choose whether to require Wi-Fi, and reconnect the folder if access changes. Reset clears the folder selection without deleting existing backup files. Android may defer scheduled work, so check the success status rather than assuming an exact backup time.

Manual Complete Backup

Use Manual Complete Backup to create a complete ZIP whenever needed and choose where to save it. Manual copies are not automatically pruned. The backup help in Settings explains the available options.

Restore from a backup

Use Restore ZIP and select a complete backup from device storage or an accessible cloud location. Restore replaces the current local data; preserve a current backup and read the confirmation before proceeding. The app checks backup integrity, but you should still review restored records and media and reconnect automatic backup storage as needed.

Export selected data

Settings → Export Data (JSON) lets you select structured data for portability or analysis. JSON export is not the full ZIP archive and does not replace a restorable backup with media.

Android backup

Android may provide an operating-system backup on supported devices when enabled. Do not assume that it covers all LifeCycle records and media or can replace your full ZIP backup.

Alert profiles control how far ahead pre-due reminders appear. They do not change the underlying due date. Overdue items are outside these pre-due windows.

Red: closest to the due date. Yellow: approaching. Blue: earlier visibility. Longer profiles extend yellow and blue visibility; the red range remains 0–2 days in all four profiles.

The blue upcoming-icon setting controls top-bar visibility when the selected profile includes a blue range. Section-specific settings and the Home look-ahead setting can also affect what you see.

If a record is not appearing where expected, check its due date, completion state, snooze state, selected profile, and the relevant section’s visibility settings.

Many sections use a tap for a common action and a long press for editing or additional options. Available actions depend on the record and section.

• Check the selected property, item, or travel context before making a change.
• Review the details in a confirmation dialog before saving or deleting.
• Keep photos and documents with the record they describe.
• Use the section’s existing controls after finding an item through search.

LifeCycle is currently free to use on Android. Core records are stored locally on your device; the app does not need constant connectivity for its core tracking features.

Optional services and downloads can require connectivity. For information about analytics, photos, and location data, read the privacy policy.

Need help with something specific? Contact support with your app version, Android version, and the steps involved.