The Pizza Clock
The pizza clock is the visual centerpiece of the schedule view. It renders as a 24-hour radial chart — imagine a clock face where each hour occupies an equal slice of the circle. Every block for the selected day appears as a colored arc on the ring, color-coded to its subject. Key elements of the pizza clock:- Colored arcs — each arc spans the start-to-end time of one block and uses that subject’s assigned color
- Now line — a marker that sweeps around the clock face to show the current time, so you can see at a glance what you should be working on
- Day start / Day end — configurable in Settings; these values control the visible range rendered on the clock face so you are not staring at empty hours you never use
Adjust your day start and day end times in Settings → Schedule to match your real waking hours. A tighter visible window makes the pizza clock easier to read and keeps your blocks from looking small against a 24-hour canvas.
Navigating Between Days
Use the 7-day strip at the top of the schedule view to move through the week. Tap any day label to jump directly to it, or swipe the main view left and right to step forward or back one day at a time. The pizza clock and block list both update instantly to reflect the selected day.Configuring Weekly Slots
Slots live on each activity rather than on the schedule itself. To add a slot to an activity:Open the activity profile
Navigate to Activities, find the subject you want to schedule, and tap it to open its profile.
Add a time slot
Tap Add Time Slot. Select the days of the week this activity runs and set the start and end times.
0 (Sunday) to 6 (Saturday). You can add multiple slots to one activity — for example, a 30-minute morning review and a 90-minute deep-work evening block.
Conflict Detection
Take Time prevents two activities from claiming the same time on the same day. Conflict rules apply across all active subjects. A Training block and a Study block cannot share the same 09:00–10:00 window on a Monday, for example. This ensures your pizza clock always renders a clean, non-overlapping picture of your day.Auto-Generation of Daily Blocks
Each time you load the app or navigate to a new day, Take Time automatically generates blocks for that day by checking which of your activity slots match the current day of the week. Any slot that matches and does not already have a block for the day gets one created immediately — so your schedule is always ready when you arrive. If a block for a given activity and time window already exists for that day (for example, because you loaded the app earlier), Take Time skips it to avoid duplicates. Only genuinely missing blocks are inserted.Changing a slot profile — editing its days, start time, or end time — affects all future days. Blocks that Take Time has already created for past or present dates are not modified. If you need to correct a block that was already generated, edit or delete it directly in the schedule view for that day.
Manually Added Blocks vs Profile-Generated Blocks
You can always tap + on any day to add a one-off block that has no corresponding slot profile. This is useful for ad-hoc sessions, make-up work, or activities you only do occasionally.| Manually added | Profile-generated | |
|---|---|---|
| Created by | You, on demand | Take Time, automatically from your slot profiles |
| Recurs | No — single day only | Yes — every matching weekday going forward |
| Deleted by | Deleting the block | Deleting the block (that day only) or removing the slot |