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 record, 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 record, which lives at Data/Stack Days in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• The The stack dashboard reads from the record and shows, at a glance: the stack · days you took the stack · running low · on the register · taking, paused, stopped · taken a day, month by month · the register · day by day · how this board works.

The wiring, in one breath: Stack capture writes to Stack register · Taken today writes to Adherence log · Stack register shown by The stack · Adherence 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 asks through 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?".
• 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 one row. There is no tick-box on the board on purpose: nothing on a page can know what you swallowed until you say so, so the sentence is the tick.
• Read Days you took the stack once a week, not once a day. A darker square is more of the stack taken; a missing square is a day nobody mentioned, 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 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, records 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.

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. The first question is the only one that matters: what’s in the stack? Each thing goes on the register as you 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 and the door quietly stays open: until something is on the register, the kit page, the board and Nettle’s chat keep the offer ready, and the first Monday leaves one card inviting you in rather than counting nothing. The first row, however it arrives, closes it.
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 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 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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