The Cosmo user guide
This guide covers the six areas of Cosmo, in the order you meet them in practice. Allow around fifteen minutes to read it all, but nothing obliges you to set everything up on day one: tasks alone are enough to start usefully.
Getting started
There are two ways in. Demo mode opens the complete application with no sign-up, pre-filled with 12 months of data: that is the right way to explore without building anything. A free account takes thirty seconds to create, by email or through Google, and your data then follows you from one device to another.
Tasks
The foundation. A task carries a name, a description, a priority from 1 to 5, a coloured category, a deadline and one or more lists. Filters combine to isolate what matters now, and lists serve lasting groupings (a client, a project, a course). A recurring task regenerates itself automatically when you tick it, and subtasks break down whatever is too big to start. Sharing is done by email, as Viewer or Editor, free of charge.
Habits
Create the habit, give it a duration, then tick it off as the days go by. A pause (holiday, illness) keeps your streak intact. The 26-week heatmap shows your real consistency, the streak counts consecutive days, and the completion rate situates the current period. The advice that changes everything: two or three habits at most when you start, even if you add more in a month. A list of fifteen habits almost always ends in giving up on all of them.
Calendar
The calendar accepts ordinary events, but its value lies elsewhere: drag a task from the side panel onto a slot and the event is created and stays linked to the task. That is time-blocking, and it is what turns a list of intentions into a realistic week. Day, week and month views, with recurring events managed from the same panel.
OKRs
One qualitative objective, 2 to 5 numeric key results. You update the current value of a key result, Cosmo recomputes the objective's progress and records each completion in your history, and that trace is what feeds the dashboard chart. If the method is new to you, the article the OKR method with 15 examples gives you wordings ready to adapt.
Statistics
Time invested per category, how it evolves over the chosen period, comparison between modules. This is the page to open at the end of a week or a month: it answers "where did my time go?" with numbers rather than an impression, and that is often where the next adjustment gets decided.
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