Getting Started
Home
Home shows the relationship habit you are building: sparks logged this week become progress toward your fire.
What Home is for
Home is the progress surface. It answers a quieter question than Today: are you actually keeping up with the people who matter?
Every meaningful touch you log in Spark counts as a spark. Calls, texts, emails, notes, completed reminders, and sent suggestions can all contribute. As sparks add up, the weekly fire grows so the habit is visible without turning relationships into a quota board.
- Use Home when you want a quick read on your relationship habit.
- Use Today when you want the next few actions Spark recommends.
- Use the Spark button when you want to log what happened or ask for help.
Week and year views
The week view focuses on the current weekly goal. It is intentionally simple: Spark shows how many sparks you have logged and how close you are to lighting this week's fire.
The year view zooms out. It shows how many weekly fires you have lit across the year, which helps you see whether the habit is durable rather than just good for a few busy days.
- Adjust your weekly goal from Home if the current target feels too high or too easy.
- Goal changes save quietly and affect future progress calculations.
- Home does not decide who to contact next; it reflects the habit after you act.
What counts as a spark
A spark is meant to represent a real relationship touch, not busywork. Sending a reviewed message from a suggestion, marking a reminder done after acting on it, or logging an interaction through Spark can all move the fire.
Passive browsing does not count. Importing contacts, opening a profile, or dismissing a suggestion may help Spark learn, but those are not relationship touches by themselves.
- Log a call, coffee, text, email, or note when it represents a meaningful touch.
- If you acted outside Spark, tell Spark what happened so the timeline and cadence stay accurate.
- If you only want to preserve context, add a note without treating it as outreach.
How Home connects to the rest of Spark
Home is downstream of the rest of the app. Today suggests actions, contact detail pages hold memory, and the Steward files what you tell it. Home turns the result into a weekly signal.
That separation matters. Spark should help you act on relationships without making every screen feel like a task list.
- For suggested actions, go to Today.
- For one person's history, open their contact detail page.
- For fast capture, open Spark and say what happened in plain language.