Last updated: 2026-10-18. How to log an entry, use widgets, and keep your ledger when you change phones.
Who can be left empty. Picking an action preselects its primary bucket. Duration is short, medium, or long, and medium is the default. Feeling can be skipped. Five buckets — Body, Relationship, Output, Input, and Recovery — answer what it was for. The secondary bucket is automatic and read-only. The note stays folded. Then save. A typical entry is about five taps.
Tap a bucket on the Home Screen, Lock Screen, or in Control Center to capture the moment. You can add the action afterward. Once the action is filled in, the entry is no longer marked as needing detail. Widgets do not prompt for location permission.
The secondary bucket is automatic. If someone is with you and the primary bucket is not Relationship, the secondary bucket is Relationship. Otherwise Pentad uses the action's own secondary bucket. If that does not apply, there is no secondary bucket.
Pentad does not count streaks and has no energy chart. The weekly report has three cards: hours in the five buckets, who the time was with, and a one-sentence conclusion.
There is no cloud sync. Export JSON or CSV from Settings before you switch phones.
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