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Onboarding

The first time you sign in, Xenith asks for just enough to give you a useful first day: a goal, one intention, and a first look at your World. It takes a couple of minutes. Everything after the intention is optional, and Back and Forward let you review or change anything before you finish. Focus and rating your life dimensions are not part of setup: you start a Focus session from your dashboard, and rate your dimensions on the Life Dimensions page when you want to.

The flow​

  1. Your name and timezone. Timezone matters. It's what every date and reminder in Xenith is based on.

  2. Pick one goal. Seven options. Each one shows the three Life Dimensions it keeps in view, so your goal decides which areas Xenith focuses on. Pick whichever fits today. If you arrived from one of our feature pages or articles, the matching goal is highlighted as a suggestion. Nothing is chosen for you.

    GoalDimensions kept in view
    Get organizedWork, Rest, Purpose
    Focus betterWork, Mind, Rest
    Improve my healthHealth, Rest, Mind
    Build better routinesHealth, Rest, Purpose
    Make progress on a projectWork, Learning, Purpose
    Feel more balancedRelationships, Rest, Health
    Understand my patternsMind, Rest, Work

  3. Set one intention. A single, specific thing you want to move forward today. This is the heart of the deliberate-living loop. Under it you can choose Email me around an hour. It is off until you pick one, and Xenith then sends one email around that time. If that hour has already passed today, the intention is planned for tomorrow instead. See Email reminders.

  4. Create your World (optional). Pick what your planet becomes (Terra, Ocean, Desert, Ice or Ember), roll a new one if you like, and give it a name. Choose later creates nothing, and Turn Worlds off removes the step and hides Worlds everywhere. See Worlds.

  5. Connect your tools (optional). A grid of the tools Xenith can work with: Google Calendar, Google Docs, Notion, Microsoft To Do, Todoist and Apple Calendar. Open a card, switch on only what you want, and Xenith asks that app for just that. Google Docs and the Notion import switch connect an account for importing; nothing is imported during onboarding. Everything here is free, can be skipped, and never blocks finishing setup. See Integrations.

  6. Try Pro for $1 (only if you have never had Pro). $1 today for 7 days of Pro, then $7.99 a month unless you cancel. We email you 2 days and 1 day before the first full charge, and you can cancel any time in Settings. Not now skips it and costs nothing. See Pro and billing.

  7. Your Xenith system. A one-screen summary: your goal, the dimensions it keeps in view, and what to do next. It also shows how to put Xenith on your home screen, for your device. Then straight into the app.

Use Back and Forward at the top of any step to review or change something. Going back keeps what you entered, and an edited intention updates the one you already set instead of adding another. Your browser's Back button works too. If you leave partway, Xenith picks up where you stopped.

After onboarding​

Your dashboard offers a short Focus session on your intention ("Give it 10 minutes?"). Start it, dismiss it, or leave it. It goes away on its own after 24 hours, and for good once you complete a session. If you finished onboarding without a World, the dashboard offers to create one, once.

Changing your setup later​

Most of what you chose during onboarding can be changed later.

  • Ratings: re-rate any of the eight dimensions any time under Life Dimensions in the sidebar.
  • Your goal and its dimensions: these are set during onboarding. Every dimension stays available under Life Dimensions whichever goal you picked; the goal decides which tools your dashboard puts first.
  • Your World: customize it, rename it or turn Worlds off any time. See Worlds.
  • Profile and notifications: Settings.

Next steps​