Understanding Kyōfolio's terminology helps you get the most out of the app. This glossary covers the essential terms you'll see throughout your planning workflow.

Core Terms

Day Type

  • The type of day you expect to have, whether it's a work day, personal day, mix of the two, or rest day
  • Determines the structure and capacity of your day plan

Energy

  • Your capacity level for the day (low, medium, or high)
  • Influences how many tasks you can realistically take on
  • Works with Day Type to shape your daily plan

Day Blocks

  • Each day has one or more day blocks that are geared towards a specific goal
  • Set up your day blocks to loosely time-block your day without minute-by-minute pressure

Highlighting

  • The system that emphasizes tasks relevant to your current day and energy
  • Dims less relevant items without hiding them completely
  • Helps you focus on what matters right now

Defer Date

  • A date you set to temporarily remove a task from view
  • Deferred tasks can be shown by turning off the filter, but are intentionally filtered to help keep what's most important in view
  • Useful for tasks that don't need to start now, but will need to happen later

Target Date

  • A specific future date you schedule a task for
  • Tasks with target dates are highlighted on that day, but never automatically added to a day. You get to decide
  • Helps you plan ahead and set expectations

Rhythms

  • Habit tracking without streak pressure
  • Set up a weekly pattern you want to keep, notice if you are meeting your rhythm goals
  • Focuses on effort and patterns, not perfection

Review

  • The end-of-day process where you reflect on what happened
  • Includes the option for a simple note to yourself as a micro-journal entry
  • Helps you close the day mindfully

Carry-forward

  • Tasks that may be pulled in to the next day that weren't completed in the previous
  • Happens when you don't close your previous day
  • Keeps your workflow continuous without judgment

How These Work Together

  • Day Type and Energy work together to shape your daily capacity and default Day Blocks
  • Highlighting uses Day Type and Energy to show relevant tasks
  • Defer and Target dates help you manage tasks across time
  • Rhythms track patterns without the pressure of streaks
  • Review and Carry-forward help you close days and transition smoothly