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Puffin, one task at a time.

Short guides to the things you do most in Puffin. Pick one to start.

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Open Puffin, answer a few questions, and land on a planned week.

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Open Puffin and sign in.
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Puffin sets up your week in a few short steps, about five minutes in all. You can skip any question.
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In Bring in your week, press Connect beside Calendar and paste your calendar’s secret link, the one that ends in .ics. Find it in your calendar’s sharing or export settings.
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In Your week, check the working hours Puffin found in your calendar, then set your personal time and your sleep. A question you skip keeps its starter hours.
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In What matters most, put your six parts of life in order. Puffin uses the order only to break a tie between two times.
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Pick a few goals, or none, and add a module such as Student if it fits you. Nothing lands in your week until you say yes.
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Choose Allow notifications to get Puffin’s reminders, or Don’t allow.
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Puffin plans your week and opens your calendar on it. You can change any answer later in Settings.

Tell Puffin what changed, and it updates your plan.

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Press Puffin at the bottom of your screen to open the chat. On a keyboard, press A.
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The first time, Puffin asks your permission to use AI. Choose Allow and continue. You can turn it off any time in Settings, under AI and data.
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Say what you need in your own words, like Move my run to tomorrow morning.
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Puffin makes the change and tells you what it did. Press Undo to put it back.
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Before a change it can’t undo, Puffin shows you what would happen and waits. Confirm it, or choose Keep current.
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The chat has a daily limit. It resets at midnight, and the rest of Puffin keeps working.

New work waits for your yes before it joins your week.

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When Puffin finds new work, for example in your mail, it waits as a proposal. Nothing joins your plan until you accept it.
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Press Today and proposals on the calendar’s toolbar, then open the Proposals tab.
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Choose Accept to add a proposal to your week, or Edit to change it first.
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Choose Dismiss to let it go. Press Undo if you change your mind.
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Choose Snooze to see it again in an hour, in four hours, tomorrow, or next week.
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Important proposals also show on your calendar as draft blocks, with Accept and Dismiss on the block.

Drag, pin, finish, or remove what’s on your calendar.

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Choose Month, Week, Day, or Agenda to change the view.
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Drag a block to move it, or drag its edge to change how long it lasts. Press Undo to put it back.
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After you move a task, Puffin asks Pin this task here?. Choose Pin to keep it there, or Move without pinning.
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Open a block to see its details. Why here? says why Puffin placed it at that time.
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Mark a task done with the circle in its details. When a block ends, Puffin asks Did you do it?.
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To remove an event of your own, open it and choose Delete event. To drop a task, choose Cancel in its … menu.

Choose your colors, your glass, your type, and your blocks.

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Open Settings, then choose Appearance. On a phone, Settings is in your profile.
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Under Color mode, choose Light, Dark, or Auto. Auto follows your device.
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Choose an App theme and a Text style.
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Set how much glass you see, from Clear to Frosted. Reduce transparency and Increase contrast make every screen more solid.
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Choose a Calendar palette and an Entry style, and set your own Habitat colors.
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Puffin keeps these choices on this device.

Bring what you already use into one plan.

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Open Settings, choose Modules and connections, then Connections.
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Under Add a connection, choose a calendar, your mail, or your sleep. A connection that isn’t open yet shows Coming.
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To add a calendar, sign in with its provider, or choose Import a calendar and paste its link or add its .ics file.
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Mail reading waits until you allow AI in Settings, under AI and data.
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Open a connection to Sync now, Pause, Reconnect, or Disconnect it. A disconnect can’t be undone.

Take a copy of your data, or delete your account.

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Open Settings, then choose Your data.
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Choose Export my data. Puffin prepares your export and emails you a link.
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When the card reads Your export is ready., choose Download. The link works for seven days.
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To delete your account, choose Delete account, read what happens, and confirm with Delete my account.
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Puffin deletes your account. Copies in backups are gone within 90 days.

Write to us, or tell us from inside Puffin.

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Write to us from the support page with a question about Puffin, your account, or your data.
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Inside Puffin, use the feedback control on any screen.
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To flag a reply in the chat, choose Report, then Send report.
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To report a security problem, use the security address at the foot of this page.