How TheOptimalPath works سبيل الرشاد

🗂️ Fronts

Your ventures, projects and areas of life. Each has a status: 🔴 needs you now, 🟡 waiting or a decision is due, 🟢 moving, ⚪ maintenance. One can be the ★ flagship. Each front page keeps its own files and links, including Google Drive files you pick.

✅ Tasks

Each front (or "general") has tasks in three lanes: Now (this week, keep it short), Next and Later. The order inside a lane is your priority, and a front's next move is simply its top task.

🎯 Quests

A big goal broken into small steps, with a gauge that fills as you go. Link it to one or more fronts and a part of life. Work goals can show levels and XP; spiritual goals show a gauge only, and private ones stay out of AI.

⚖️ Decisions

Questions only you can answer, with the options. They often block more than any task, so Today shows them under "Waiting on you".

📜 Journal

The shared memory. Every change from the app, Telegram or an AI connection is written here, so nothing is lost and any assistant can catch up.

☀️ Today's plan

Built each morning from overdue and due tasks, then Now tasks, then fronts that need you. Edit it freely; your own lines survive the daily rebuild.

🕸️ Life map

How your fronts feed each other. Tap a front to see its connections and open tasks, or make it the centre.

1. After Fajr, open Spiritual. Mark the prayer, see your Qur'an portion and what hifz is due.
2. Then open Today. The first line of the plan is what matters most; Now, Waiting on you and Coming up sit below it.
3. Work in blocks between prayers. Tick tasks as you finish them, in Today, in Priorities or with /did on Telegram.
4. Capture as you go. Type a note to the Telegram bot or tell your AI assistant; it lands in the journal under the right front.
5. Keep your anchors. Mark each prayer, log the quarters you read, and revise what "Due today" shows.
6. After Isha, close the day. Move what did not happen to Next, put tomorrow's first task at the top of Now, and add a short reflection if you like.
7. On Friday, review the week. Close a decision, choose three to five tasks for Now, and park the rest in Later. An AI connection can run this review with you.

• 🌙 Spiritual: prayers first, then the Qur'an and hifz, fasting and giving, each with its full view below.
• ☀️ Today: the plan, your Now tasks, what waits on you and what is due this week. On Fridays it offers the weekly review.
• 🎯 Priorities: Tasks shows all three lanes (drag to move or reorder; on a phone, use ⋯). Fronts shows your ventures; open one for its own lanes, status, notes, decisions and history.
• 🕸️ Life map: how your fronts connect, with a plain-text view underneath.
• 📜 Journal: everything that happened, filterable by kind, with open decisions beside it.
• ⚙️ Settings: add fronts and map links, manage AI connections, and download a backup.
• 🎨 and ?: the 🎨 button sets language, light or dark, colour, background (your own photo stays on that device), density and text size; ? opens this page.

These are between you and Allah. TOP never scores, ranks or compares them, and they never go to a cloud AI.

• Prayers: three separate marks, ✓ prayed alone, 🕌 in congregation, ⏱ on time.
• Qur'an: choose your mushaf (Hafs or Qālūn) and where you are; the next hizb quarter shows up front. Count quarters read each day.
• Hifz and murāja'a: mark what you have memorized by surah or by quarter. Revision gaps grow from 1 day to 30 as a part becomes solid; rate each revision solid, shaky or weak and the next date adapts.
• Fasting: Ramadan days, missed days and make-ups with a balance that counts down; sunnah fasts; iftar and suhoor times. Shift the Hijri date by a day if your local sighting differs.
• Giving: sadaqa, zakat, zakat al-fiṭr and fidya, with amounts hidden until you show them. The zakat calculator gives your next zakat date and 2.5% on the gold or silver niṣāb you choose. It is a calculator, not a ruling.

The bot answers only your own chat. Most messages that are not commands are filed as journal notes, under a front when the first word names one.

• Settings → AI connections creates one key per app: Claude, ChatGPT, or a model on your own computer (LM Studio, Open WebUI), each with copy-paste setup.
• Every key can read your board. Writing (journal, tasks, fronts, decisions) is your choice, and each write is journaled with the app's name. No connection can delete anything or reach your Gmail, Calendar or Google token.
• Only connect apps you trust: what you tick is shared with that company under its own terms. Worship and giving summaries are for models on your own computer only.
• Try: "Give me my brief", "Plan my day from TheOptimalPath", "Add 'call the designer' to Now on UFitPal", "I finished the pitch deck", "Run my weekly review".
• Revoke a key in one click if a device or link is lost.

• Your data lives in a Supabase database. Every row carries your account, and the database itself refuses other accounts.
• AI keys are stored only as fingerprints and shown once. Backups leave out your Google token and AI keys.
• Your background photo is resized on your device, its location data removed, and it never leaves that device.
• Faith and money never go to a cloud AI model. AI features are opt-in.
• Whoever runs the server can technically read what the app can read. Our commitments about that are on the Principles page.

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