Work through it, one row at a time.

It takes the rows of a living record and shows them one at a time, full screen on a phone, with large buttons that are easy to hit with a thumb. You answer or log the one in front of you, move on, and what you entered lands in the right record without typing a word into chat. It helps most when your hands are busy or your attention is elsewhere: between sets, in the kitchen, walking round the garden with a hose.

A pass takes one of two shapes, and the record’s own page tells you which:

• Working from a plan. The record is the plan, and each row you finish writes a new row somewhere else. A training programme stays as written while every lift you finish goes into a log with the sets you actually did. The page says “Answers go to …, one row per step”, and that the plan is not changed.
• Reviewing the rows themselves. Your answers are written back onto each row: this month’s balance against each loan, a tick against each item on a packing list. The page says “Answers are written back onto each row”.

If a record’s conditions leave nothing to do today, such as every plant marked lost or nothing due yet, the panel says “Nothing to go through right now” rather than asking you to add rows.

Each step shows its name, a Planned line where there is a plan, and Last time where there is something earlier to compare with. Below sit the things it asks for: a number you nudge up or down, a choice, a tick or a note. Where a step repeats, as sets do, each one is ticked as you finish it (“Set 2 done”), and you can change the weight or the reps for that set alone, or Add a set.

• Saved as you go. The main button reads “Done and next”, or “Done and finish” on the last step. Each step is saved the moment you move past it, so a session cut short still leaves everything you did on the record. Going back to an earlier step and finishing it again updates the row it already wrote, with no duplicate.
• Skipping. Skip moves on without saving. Come back to a skipped step and it offers to take your answer now, or Keep skipped. If you have already entered something, the button reads Move on and saves what is there.
• The summary. The last step leads to a short summary: what changed from the plan, what was skipped (each with Do it now), and what was done. Finish closes the pass.
• On a computer. The steps are listed beside the one you are on, and the keyboard works when you are not typing in a field: Enter to finish a step, S to skip, the left arrow to go back, and the up and down arrows to nudge a number.

Leave takes you back to where you were, and the pass waits. While it is open, a small card sits just above where you type in chat, naming the pass, how far you got and what comes next, with Resume. Reopening it from the board or the card puts you on the next step with a note: “Picked up where you left off.”

To stop for good, open the card’s menu and choose End it here. What you did stays saved, and the steps left are marked not done. What counts as done today is read from what was actually saved, so a lift logged from chat, or a step finished on your phone, shows on the board on every device. Tomorrow starts a fresh pass, and a plan with groups moves on to the next one.

If the connection drops mid-pass, carry on. Each finished step is kept on the device, with a band saying so (“No signal. … is kept on this device and saves when the signal returns.”), and is sent by itself as soon as the connection comes back, with no tap needed. Sending it again never adds a second row. If a save is refused for a reason that waiting will not fix, the band says why and offers Try again.

Kept steps belong to the account and the space they were made in. They are sent only while that account is signed in, so sign back in on the same device and they go.

Many Kits arrive with a pass already set up and a panel on their board, so the first one is a tap away once the record holds something. A few, with the panel each one puts on its board:

• Strength & Lifting: “Next session”, set by set from the training programme, with drawings of the movement beside each lift where it has them.
• Garden & Plants: “Walk the garden”, one living plant at a time, and “Do a job step by step”.
• Meals & Groceries: “Cook it step by step”, through a recipe’s method.
• Home & Upkeep: “Do a job step by step”, from a how-to sheet.
• Mortgages & Loans: “Go through your balances”, one loan at a time.
• Trips & Getaways: “Before you go”, the trip checklist.
• Meetings & Actions: “Walk an agenda”, item by item.
• Pets & Vet Care: “Daily care”, for each animal.

It is the same view in every one of them. The Kit only decides which record it walks and what each step asks for.

Step by step works on any record, including one you started yourself. Describe how you want to go through it, and the agent sets the record up for it, with each step either written back onto its row or logged somewhere else, and puts a panel with a Start button on a board.

If a record’s settings stop fitting it, say after a column is renamed, the pass will not start and says so instead: “This can’t be gone through step by step yet.” Ask in chat and the settings are put right.