Your daily study session on Today

Today (the /today screen) is your default screen for a study session: open it, generate your day, work the blocks, and log at the end. If you're brand new, the getting started guide runs you through your very first day; this one is the full reference for every day after.

Plan your day

At the top of Today you'll see a day counter ("Day N of Total"), a prayer-times strip if you've set one up, and a short coach banner reflecting yesterday's result. Below that is the day planner: give it your start and end time and StudyRise lays out your blocks. Fixed commitments stay put and the plan builds around them.

1. Enter your start and end time for the day. StudyRise builds 50-minute study blocks with 10-minute breaks, adding a 30-minute long break every three blocks.
2. Any fixed commitments — prayer times, gym, work shifts — are treated as immovable, and your study blocks flow around them.
3. Read the coach banner for a short, honest note on where you stand (yesterday's outcome, your streak, questions vs target).
4. Use the current task card to jump straight in: Mark Complete, Skip Today, Backdate, or Log.

Run a block timer

Each block has a timer. Tap Start and it goes live — a red countdown you can Pause or Skip. Pausing re-times every later block so your day stays realistic. Nothing auto-completes: when the 50 minutes end, you decide whether the task is done or needs another block.

1. Tap Start on a block. A red countdown runs with Pause and Skip.
2. Hit Pause if you're interrupted — every later block re-times itself around the gap.
3. When the block ends, choose Done or Continue at the "Finished this task?" prompt — you stay in control.
4. If the block was a spaced-repetition review, you'll instead get a quick recall-quality prompt (Easy / Medium / Hard / Blackout) right in the timeline. See spaced repetition for what those ratings do.

The sidebar tools

Today's sidebar keeps a few small tools within reach so you're not hunting for them mid-session. Use them to adjust the rhythm, glance at your numbers, and clear reviews without leaving the screen.

1. Pomodoro timer — a standalone focus timer, separate from the block schedule.
2. Insert Break — drop an extra break in on purpose when you need one.
3. Quick Stats — blocks done, question deficit, days left, and today's question count at a glance.
4. SR due panel — a shortcut straight into your spaced-repetition review queue when something's due.

Log your day

At the end of a session or day, open the Log modal. Four big buttons capture how the day actually went, plus a field for questions done and an optional panel for which subject and how many were correct. This is the single most important habit in Exam Mode: honest logging is what keeps every number downstream trustworthy.

1. Open the Log modal and choose one: Complete, Partial (with a 10–90% slider), Missed, or Rest Day.
2. Enter how many questions you did.
3. Optionally expand the panel to log which subject and how many you got correct — this sharpens your accuracy trends.
4. Log Rest Day when the break was planned — rest days are never shaded red or penalised. Falling behind instead? See staying on track.

Quick-log from anywhere

You don't have to be on Today to log a question session. A floating "+" button sits in the bottom-right of almost every screen and opens a compact logging popup, so you can record a quick question-bank block without breaking your flow.

1. Tap the floating "+" (bottom-right) from wherever you are.
2. Fill in the compact popup — subject, attempted, correct — and save.
3. For the full logging surface with modes, confidence, and paste-import, use the Questions screen instead.