Supplement Stack

How it works

The mechanics of this kit, plainly — what runs and when, where the data lands, and what you look at.

• Refill watch runs mondays · 8am and keeps the The stack dashboard fresh. Mondays — works out what runs out when, and warns a fortnight ahead.
• Evening check runs every evening · 8pm. Each evening — one question about today, only if nothing has been said.
• What is captured lands in the Stack register dataset, which lives at Data/Supplement Stack in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• What is captured lands in the Adherence log dataset, which lives at Data/Stack Days in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• What is captured lands in the Intake log dataset, which lives at Data/Stack Intake in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• The The stack dashboard reads from the dataset and shows, at a glance: take the stack · taking, paused, stopped · on the register · cost a month, on record · running low · coming up · a month, by where you buy it · days you took the stack · the stack · how this board works.

The wiring, in one breath: Stack capture writes to Stack register · Taken today writes to Adherence log · Taken today writes to Intake log · Stack register shown by The stack · Intake log shown by The stack · The stack kept fresh by Refill watch · Refill watch run by Nettle · Nettle holds Stack capture · Nettle holds Taken today · Nettle holds Refills and costs · Refills and costs updates Stack register · Nettle asks through Evening check · Adherence log read by Evening check.

Getting the most from it

A kit earns its place when it changes what you look at and what you say, not when it is installed. This is the rhythm that makes it pay.

• Give each thing its reasons the day you add it — why you started, what convinced you — even if the answer is "a friend swore by it". The stack table is worth reading from that moment, and months later it is the only honest answer to "why am I still buying this?".
• Tick it off as you take it. Take the stack, at the top of the board, goes through what you take at that time of day one thing at a time, and each tick is saved as taken today. Or say the day the way you’d say it to someone in the kitchen — "took everything", "skipped the magnesium", "forgot yesterday" — and Taken today writes the same lines. A thing ticked and then said is still one line, so use whichever is nearer to hand. Nothing on the board marks anything taken until you tick it or say it.
• Read Days you took the stack once a week, not once a day. A darker square is more of the stack ticked off or said; a missing square is a day nobody recorded, never a day you missed. If the evening ones keep going pale, that is a fact about your evenings, not a verdict.
• Tell Nettle roughly how many are left whenever you notice — "about 40 of the vitamin D", "opened a new tub of 60" — and Running low earns its place on Monday morning, after the Refill watch has done the arithmetic. It cannot count what nobody has counted, and it says so rather than guessing.
• When you buy a refill, say what you paid and where — "twelve for sixty at the pharmacy" — and Refills and costs works out what that thing costs a month, showing the working; Cost a month on the board adds up only the prices you gave. Ask "what do I need to reorder?" and you get what is running low, grouped by where you buy each thing. Nettle never compares shops or brands, and never says whether something is worth the money.
• Read the use-by off the label while you have the tub in your hand, and if you take something in stretches — eight weeks on, four off — say so once. Coming up on the board shows a use-by within a month and the end of a stretch within a fortnight, every Monday. The cycle is yours: Nettle never suggests one and never switches it for you, so say when the break starts.
• When you notice something — or nothing — say it: "sleeping better since the magnesium", "no difference from the omega-3". It lands in What you’ve noticed beside the reason you started, which is exactly the pair you need in front of you when you ask whether it is still worth it. Nettle will never answer that question for you.
• A prescribed medicine is never a row here. If you also keep Health & Lookout, Willow keeps the Medications record; Nettle hands anything prescribed to her in words, so the stack stays what it is — the things you chose.

Make it yours

Nothing here is fixed. The pieces are ordinary agents, routines, datasets and dashboards, so anything you know about shaping those applies. Retire whatever earns nothing.

Things people usually change first

Say any of these in chat, or edit them on the kit’s page in the app.

• When the evening question comes — or turning it off and just saying the day when you think of it.
• When the Monday Refill watch runs, and how far ahead it warns you.
• What counts as "the stack" for the day — the whole register, or only the morning ones on a day you say so.
• The unit you think in for a count — capsules, scoops, days of a tub — Nettle records what you say.
• The times of day Take the stack goes through: they are the When on each row, so moving the magnesium to the evening moves it in the pass.

Your first run

Installing starts a short setup conversation — not a form. Answer roughly, correct later.

1. Installing ends with "Meet Nettle" — a short conversation, not a form. Before it asks you anything, Nettle looks at what you have already told 1Presence and at any list, receipt or label note in your vault, and offers what it finds for you to confirm, so you only fill the gaps. Then the one question that matters: what else is in the stack? Each thing goes on the register as you confirm or say it, with the dose and when you take it if you know them off the top of your head; then, lightly, why you started it and what convinced you, in your own words. A blank stays blank, and "can’t remember" is an answer.
2. If you know roughly how many are left of anything, say so and the Monday Refill watch has what it needs; if not, it waits for a count rather than guessing. Nothing in that conversation reaches outside 1Presence, and nothing in it is a recommendation — if you ask Nettle whether something works or what dose to take, the answer is that it is a pharmacist’s or a doctor’s question, said once.
3. Skip the conversation, or stop part-way, and the door quietly stays open: until what you take is on the register with its dose, what is still missing waits on the Kit page with a way back to Nettle, and Nettle offers it once the next time you talk. The counts are optional. Tell it a part does not apply to you, or that you have finished setting up, and it stops asking. With nothing on the register at all, the first Monday leaves one card inviting you in rather than counting nothing.
4. From then on the kit has two habits of its own, both of which you were told about and both of which you can retime or switch off by asking: at 8pm, if nothing has been said or ticked off about today, one card asks whether you took the stack — answer it in a few words or ignore it, and the day stays blank rather than being marked missed; and on Monday mornings the Refill watch works out what runs out when, writing the date on each row, listing a use-by or the end of a stretch of your own cycle that is near, and saying something only when a thing runs out within a fortnight.

Watch the first pass, then tell it what you would have done differently — that correction teaches it more than any setup could.

The essentials

Learning, preferences and run costs work the same in every kit — so they are covered once, in the Kits guide.

Living with a Kit — the Kits guide →

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