How to use Faro

Updated 13 October 2026.

Faro holds you to your own calendar. You put your day on the calendar. Faro speaks up before and after each event, asks whether you finished, and keeps a streak for every goal. This page shows what to tap, screen by screen.

• 1. First-time setup
• 2. The four tabs and the + button
• 3. Today, from the top
• 4. What Faro says, and when
• 5. Streaks
• 6. Goals and routines
• 7. Capture, Clarify, Matrix
• 8. Priorities A, B, C
• 9. Money
• 10. The reviews
• 11. Settings
• 12. When something looks wrong

1

First-time setup

1. Open Faro. On an iPhone, install it from TestFlight. In a browser, go to stayfaro.app/app.
2. Choose how to sign in:
   • Continue with Google connects your calendar at once. Finish the Google screens within five minutes, and allow Faro to see and change your calendar and tasks. Faro only changes something when you tap Save or Delete.
   • Continue with Apple (iPhone) signs you in with Face ID. No Google account needed.
   • Continue with email: type your address, tap Send me a code, then type the code from the email. No password. Not there? Look in Junk.
   Signed in with Apple or email, you can connect Google Calendar any time: the Connect Google Calendar card on Today, or Settings → Account. Until then everything except the calendar reminders works.
3. The anchor. Enter your Day 1 (the date the journey starts), the total days (810), and a name for the destination.
4. Where you are. Enter where your day starts (home) and your office. Faro uses them to tell you when to leave, with live traffic.
5. The sleep contract. Enter when wind-down starts, lights out by, and your wake-up time.
6. Tap Light the lamp. When the phone asks about notifications, tap Allow.

2

The four tabs and the + button

• TODAYYour day, top to bottom: where you are now, what is waiting for an answer, your priorities, what is next.
• MONEYBank statements, spending by area of life, runway, savings goals.
• GOALSOne goal per area of life, each with its own streak and routine.
• REVIEWClarify, the Matrix, the weekly review, the monthly review, the VA queue.

The gold + is on every tab. Tap it, type whatever is on your mind, and it is captured. You decide what it becomes later, in Clarify. Nothing is lost.

3

Today, from the top

1. The chapter bar. Day X of 810, the chapter you are in, and when the calendar was last synced. Pull down to sync now.
2. NOW. The block you are in and the minutes left, or what comes next, or what today added up to.
3. Wake-up and Bedtime rows. Tap each one when it is done. Wake-up counts until 45 minutes after the alarm. Bedtime counts from three hours before wind-down until lights out. Each has its own streak.
4. AWAITING YOUR ANSWER. An event ended and Faro asked Did you finish? Tap Yes, Partial or No. You have ten minutes. After that it counts as a miss. You can change an answer for two minutes after giving it.
5. TODAY'S PRIORITIES. The day as a ranked list, A, B and C. See section 8.
6. NEXT UP. The rest of today's events. Tap one to open it. Tap its gear to change the category, mute it, send it to your VA, or edit, move or delete it. + Event opens Google Calendar's own new-event screen with the next half hour filled in; save it there, and Faro shows it the moment you come back.
7. Take today off. Nothing is asked of you today. Answers already given stand. The sleep contract still counts. An all-day event called Day off or Vacation on your calendar does the same.

4

What Faro says, and when

Faro speaks, and the banner shows the details. It works with the app closed.

With the app open, a card shows the meeting's time, place and who is coming while Faro speaks. Inside your silent hours the banner comes without the voice. Wind-down and wake-up always speak. Each goal can have its own lead time before the start, from 5 to 60 minutes.

5

Streaks

• Yes adds one to the goal's streak.
• Partial holds the streak. Three partials in a row reset it.
• No, or no answer within ten minutes, is a miss. Two misses in a row reset it.
• Shields 🛡️. Every 5 in a row earns a shield (5, 10, 15 …), up to 3 held. When a streak would reset, a shield is spent instead and the streak keeps its count. Bedtime and wake-up earn shields too: 5 kept days, and a missed night spends one.
• Each goal has a reward ladder and a consequence ladder. Faro tells you which rung you reached.
• Name the person who holds you to a goal. In the weekly review, one tap texts them how the week went.
• The GOALS tab shows every streak, the last seven answers, and a twelve-week heatmap per goal.

6

Goals and routines

1. GOALS tab → + (or Create your first goal).
2. Give it a name, pick one of the seven areas of life, and write your definition of enough: the number that means the goal is met.
3. ROUTINE. Add the tasks that make the goal happen, each with a start and an end time. Choose the weekdays, or leave it as a one-off. Tap Add to calendar and each task becomes its own event in Google Calendar (a weekly series when days are chosen), in the goal's colour, so you can see at a glance which goal each block serves. From then on Faro reminds you, asks whether you finished, and the streak counts it.
4. Where it happens: At home, At the office, or Flexible. For a goal's events with no place on the calendar, Faro times the drive to your home or office address from wherever your previous appointment was, and tells you when to leave. Flexible uses each meeting's own place on the calendar. A place on the calendar always wins.
5. Name who holds you to it, add a reward ladder and a consequence ladder, and set the reminder lead in minutes.
6. Tap Save.

Faro files calendar events under goals by their title. If one lands in the wrong place, open the event, tap its gear, and tap the right category. Faro learns the title for next time.

7

Capture, Clarify, Matrix

1. Tap +, type the thought, done. Do this all day; it takes two seconds.
2. REVIEW tab → Clarify. Faro reminds you at 09:30. For each thought it asks Where does it sit?
   • Do today — urgent and important. Goes on today's calendar.
   • Schedule — important, not urgent. Faro proposes a time next weekday.
   • Delegate — urgent, not important. A one-line handoff opens, ready to send to your VA.
   • Drop — neither. Gone, but visible in the Matrix for thirty days.
   • Or Someday / maybe and Reference, when it is not a task at all.
3. For Do today and Schedule, pick which goal it serves, then Put it on the calendar (you save the event) or Make it a task (a Google task with a day, no time).
4. REVIEW → Open the Matrix shows all four boxes. Tap an item to finish it, act on it, or move it. More than eight in one box is Faro's sign that the plan has stopped being real.
5. Spending that Faro could not file shows up in Clarify too. Tap the area of life that paid for it.

8

Priorities A, B, C

On Today, the day is ranked:

• A Must happen today. Your goal tasks on today's calendar, and every Do today item from the matrix. One you did not finish rolls into the next day in red, marked since Mon.
• B Placed today. Schedule items you put on today's calendar, and Google tasks due today or earlier. Late ones show in red.
• C Waiting on others. A count of what is with your VA. Tap it to open the Matrix.

The ring at the left shows the outcome: a green tick, a half, a red cross, or a gold question mark when Faro is waiting for your answer. Tap the ring to tick off a matrix item or a task. Tap the title to open it. At 09:30 the Clarify reminder reads the A list to you.

9

Money

1. MONEY tab → + Upload a statement. Download a CSV from your online banking first. PDF is not supported.
2. Tap each uncategorized transaction and pick the area of life that paid for it. Faro learns the merchant.
3. Read the screen: the six-month trend (tap a month), the runway (enter your cash on hand), spending by category, income by source, recurring commitments, and the subscriptions Faro found in your statements.
4. + New savings goal for a trip, a home, a car, or anything else. Record deposits as you make them.
5. Export for your accountant gives a CSV of any range. The search box looks through every month.

10

The reviews

• Clarify — daily, ten minutes, empties the inbox.
• Weekly Review — Sunday at 18:00, thirty minutes, not skippable. Six steps: where every streak stands, what slipped, this week's money, next week, one next action per goal, inbox zero. The banner on Today stays until it is done.
• Eliminate & Automate — monthly. Every recurring series from the last thirty days, biggest time sink first: keep it, dread it, or delegate it. Then the subscriptions, then how much of your income could be earned from anywhere.
• VA queue — every upcoming event tagged Send to VA, each with a one-line handoff ready to send.
• Retrospective — opens on Today the day a chapter closes: what you pulled off, what slipped, what carries forward.

11

Settings

Open Settings with the ⚙ at the top right of Today.

• The journey — Day 1, total days, destination. Moving Day 1 moves every chapter date; streaks are untouched.
• The sleep contract — wind-down, lights out, wake-up.
• Voice — on or off, test it, and your silent hours. Turning the voice off makes reminders text only.
• Notifications — on the phone, from the first Allow. In a browser, Browser notifications and Send a test.
• Default reminder lead, home and office addresses, theme (system, light, dark).
• Account — sign out, or delete the account. Deleting erases everything Faro holds about you, including its access to your Google Calendar.

Keyboard shortcuts in a browser

Y P N answer the oldest prompt on Today · C capture a thought · M open the Matrix · R sync the calendar · 1 2 3 4 the four tabs · ? this list.

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When something looks wrong

• "Google Calendar disconnected." Tap Reconnect Google on Today and finish the Google screens within five minutes.
• Sign-in fails with "state has expired". The Google screens took longer than five minutes. Start the sign-in again.
• "Already answered." The prompt's ten minutes were up before the tap, so the miss had already been counted. The next prompt is a fresh start.
• No voice when the phone is locked. A closed app cannot speak a full sentence, so each reminder plays a short clip in Faro's voice; the banner carries the details. Open Faro and it speaks the whole line.
• "NO CONNECTION" on Today. You are seeing your day as it was last saved. Reading works; answers wait until you are back online, because each answer must reach Faro exactly once.
• An event is under the wrong goal. Open it, tap the gear, tap the right category. Faro learns the title.
• Anything else: write to support.