Daily Plan New
Lay out each day's experiments as time blocks: plan it yourself, or let Vara plan it.
Dashboard "Today's plan"
- Switch the dashboard top card to the [Today's plan] tab (next to [Today's note])
- Add inline: optional time + what to do, press Enter or
[+]to add, no dialog - Each item can be checked done (strikethrough), retimed, or deleted; items linked to an experiment show a green chip you can click through
The Plan page /plan
[Plan] in the sidebar (/plan): a full-month calendar on desktop (tap any day to plan it), day-by-day on mobile. Plan past / today / future and see at a glance what you did this week and what's next.
Let Vara plan for you
- Just say "plan my day: PCR at 9am, Western blot at 2pm": Vara pops an "Add N plan item(s)" confirm card; one click schedules the day
- Or snap a photo of a schedule table: show Vara a handwritten or printed agenda and it reads each row into plan items, even across several days
Repeating items: passaging, media changes
Passaging and media changes are counted from the day you last did them. Set an item to "Every N days after done" and when you tick it done, Vara schedules the next one N days after the day you finished it, with the same title, time and linked experiment.
- Click the repeat icon on the right of an item and pick 1 / 2 / 3 / 7 days, or "Custom days" for 1 to 60. On a phone, tap edit first; the icon is in the edit row.
- You can also end the text with "every 3 days" when adding. The line under the input shows "Repeats 3 days after done", and those words are left out of the title.
- Repeating items show the repeat icon and the number of days. The next item is an ordinary item: it shows up on its day, and you can retime or delete it as usual.
- Ticked it by mistake? Untick it the same day and the item it just created goes away too. If you already changed that next item, it stays.
Only "every N days after done" is supported; there is no fixed-date repeat such as "every Monday". The repeat setting can be changed on the web and through a connected AI for now; ticking an item done in the Mac app also creates the next one once it syncs.
Subscribe in your phone or computer calendar
Under Settings → Data → Calendar subscription, click "Create subscription link". Plan items from the past 30 days to the next 180 days then show up in your calendar app. It is read-only: edits made in the calendar app are not written back to Vara.
- iPhone / Mac / Outlook: click "Subscribe in calendar app" and confirm when prompted.
- Google Calendar: click "Copy link", open Google Calendar on a computer, click + next to "Other calendars", choose "From URL", and paste the link. Google Calendar on your phone picks up the subscription automatically.
- Timed items show at the clock time you entered, whatever time zone you are in. Items without a time show as all-day events.
- Timed items that are not done yet come with a reminder 15 minutes before (Apple Calendar supports it; Google Calendar ignores reminders in subscribed calendars).
- Your calendar app decides how often to refresh, usually every hour to once a day, so changes in Vara won't show up right away.
- The link is private: anyone who has it can see your plan. If it leaks, click "Reset link". The old link stops working right away; subscribe again with the new one.
Notes
Planning is just scheduling: it's decoupled from your experiment data, so checking an item done won't write a run log. Plans sync between the web app and the Vara Mac app, so a change on either side shows up on the other. Repeats are "every N days after done" only, and there is no drag-to-reschedule (kept simple). For reminders, subscribe in your calendar app (see the section above).