Ten seconds. On purpose.
Spend your attention well.
Less noise.
More presence.
Better work.
Better rest.
Better life.
Time management is broken if you have no energy left.
You don't need another to-do list. You need to manage your capacity.
Visualizing the Cycle
Energy doesn't just drain; it transfers. When you see your day mapped out in Clarinty, you aren't just seeing a list of tasks. You are seeing a metabolic process: Deep drawing down the reserves, Light keeping the engine running without burning out, and Recover actively refilling the tank.
Diagnosing the Leaks
If someone feels exhausted but their calendar looks empty, seeing their energy movement might reveal they are spending too much cognitive load on "Light" administrative tasks that are slowly leaking their capacity, or mistaking passive distraction (which drains) for "Recover" (which restores).
Finding Your Rhythm
It shifts the question from "Did I get enough done?" to "Did I spend my attention in a sustainable rhythm today?" You start to see your personal energy signature — maybe you do your best Deep work after a specific Recover block.
You name what you did. Then three inputs.
Mind state, reflection, outcome. Three answers to the same action — what it cost you, what it taught you, how it went. Everything Clarinty knows comes from these.
Deep, Light, Recover.
Functionally distinct states — not three points on an intensity scale. Deep spends capacity, Light protects it from silent leaks, Recover rebuilds it. None of the three works without the other two.
Deep
Builds your capability
Light
Protects your focus
Recover
Restores your energy
Two kinds of reflection.
One line, on the same screen. Proud captures what you did well. Insight captures what you learned. Both become searchable the moment you need them again.
One specific thing you did.
An action, a choice, a moment you'd want to remember. True whether it feels big or small.
Write: held my price on the proposal instead of discounting it.
Not: a goal, a plan, praise from someone else, or a comparison.
Something that got clearer.
A pattern you noticed, a reason something worked, or a thing you'd do differently next time.
Write: I focus better right after clearing my inbox, not before.
Not: a complaint, self-criticism, or a spiral of "why didn't I."
One honest number.
Rated inside the mind state you chose — the same seven steps mean different things for Deep, Light and Recover.
One number, 1 to 7. What it means depends on the mind state.
How far you went past comfort.
Solid, appropriately hard.
The list and the day.
The right reflection, at the right moment.
A reflection is only worth writing if you can find it again. Search by action or by person and Clarinty surfaces everything you learned last time — before you repeat it.
Search by action
Type “deep work”, “1:1”, “gym” — every past entry with that action, its outcome and what you wrote.
Search by person
Before a meeting, pull up every reflection tied to that person. Walk in with what you already know.
Kaizen loop
Attach one small improvement to a recurring situation. Next time it appears, so does the experiment — and its result.