Understanding Your Energy Score: A Quick Guide

Ever wondered why some parts of the day feel more energizing than others? We’ve got an answer for you – it’s all about your body’s internal clock, which relies on circadian rhythms. Circadian rhythms are like your body’s daily schedule, influencing when you feel alert and when you may feel sluggish.

Lifestack harnesses the power of these rhythms to create your personalized Energy Score. Here’s how it works:

  1. Sleep: We start with your sleep. Our algorithm uses your sleep data, including the time you wake up and your sleep quality as the basis to calculate an energy wave — picture a gentle rollercoaster of alertness throughout the day.
  2. Riding the Wave: This wave represents your body’s natural energy flow. When the wave is high, so is your energy, and when it’s low, you may feel a bit less energized. We help you figure out when your energy is at its peak.
  3. Personal Energy Score: Based on where you are on this energy wave, Lifestack gives you an Energy Score. The higher your score, the better your body is prepared for activity and focus. So, if you want to tackle something important, schedule it during your high Energy Score windows. We also personalize your Energy Score by integrating your self-reported data to make sure we understand how you really feel.

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How We Calculate Energy

What Are Energy Boosts?

Lifestack includes a button on the schedule page that automatically schedules short activities that are meant to help the user gain energy when they are predicted to have lower energy. We have prepared a set of general recommendations derived from scientific reports that will allow users to explore commonly studied methods of boosting energy. We have carefully curated a set of recommendations that have been proven to affect the circadian rhythm, and in turn, energy, to help you stay as energized throughout the day.

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How To Use Energy Boosts

Reporting Your Subjective Feelings

While wearable devices can provide more “objective” data regarding your energy and health, data doesn’t always reflect how we feel. And we believe that how we feel in terms of energy is a valid and important data point to consider. We will adjust your energy for a shorter period of time if you answer how energized you are.

NOTE: to get notifications for reporting subjective feelings, you must turn the feature on. In the settings menu (three-stack button on the top left → gear button on the top right), scroll down to the notifications and turn on “Energy Feedback”.

There are multiple ways of reporting your subjective feelings:

  1. Events: After an event has occurred, we will ask you “How energized do you feel right now?” Depending on the event duration, category, and your response, we will adjust your energy accordingly.
  2. Energy Zones: For each energy zone in your day such as “Focus”, “Warm-up”, we will ask you ““How energized do you feel right now?” Alternatively, you can click on the text of energy zone to report how you felt during the energy zone.

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Reporting Subjective Feelings

Event Categorization

Each event or task in your day affects your energy differently. For example, you may feel energized from a meeting, but drained from an hour of inbox cleaning. While we aren’t yet able to understand this fully, we aim to estimate how your energy will affect your energy level through event categorization. To check or set an event’s category, click on the event where you will see a tag emoji with an event category listed. We use historical data and a prediction algorithm to make a guess as to what the event could be — indicated by a dotted outline. If you notice that this is wrong, change the event category and Lifestack won’t make that mistake again.

AI Scheduler

A core aspect of Lifestack is being able to discover new schedules and routines to optimize your day using energy. While users are able to schedule their tasks and events manually, users can now leave it up to Lifestack’s Scheduler function. The scheduler will take into account different inputs such as preferred start time and amount of deep work the user wants to finish to craft an energy optimized schedule. It takes into account pre-scheduled events to ensure meetings and other obligations are not disturbed. Feedback is welcome here: canny