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Profiles

A profile is a named group of apps with an optional emoji. It is a saved selection, not a mode: creating one changes nothing on its own, and activating one is a single action you can undo.

Open it from the overflow menu (⋮) on the app list ▸ Profiles.

Creating a profile

New profile asks for a name and, optionally, an emoji from a small palette. Save current selection creates a profile from whatever is caged right now, which is usually the easiest route: cage the apps you want, then save the result as Evening or Focus.

A profile needs a name and at least one app. Both are checked at the field, so you find out before you tap save:

  • Give the profile a name
  • You already have a profile with that name
  • Choose at least one app

Editing a profile

Each profile's menu offers:

ActionWhat it does
Edit appsOpens the member list, with a search box
RenameChanges the name
DuplicateCopies it, so a variant does not cost you the original
DeleteRemoves the profile

Editing a profile's members does not change what is caged right now. Activate it again to apply the new set.

Activating a profile

Activating asks how it should combine with what is already caged:

  • Replace selection — your manual selection becomes exactly this profile's apps. This is the default.
  • Add to selection — the profile's apps are added to what is already caged; nothing is released.

The confirmation names the profile — Activated Evening — and offers Undo, which restores the selection exactly as it was before.

:::note Activation touches only your manual selection Schedules contribute their apps independently. Activating a profile can never silently cancel a schedule, and a schedule can never overwrite the selection you made by hand. :::

Profiles and schedules

A schedule can target a profile rather than a single app. That is the usual way to run something like "cage the Focus profile on weekdays from 09:00 to 17:00" — edit the profile's members and every schedule pointing at it follows.

Profiles across devices

A profile carries a device-independent identity, so the same profile stays the same profile through an export and import, and across two phones sharing an account. Schedules reference that identity rather than a name, so two profiles with similar names never get confused for one another.

See Account and sync.