Your first five minutes
Latte is only useful once it knows something about your week. There are two ways to give it that, and you need one of them, not both:
- Connect a source — your timetable, your calendar, or a syllabus. Best if your school publishes a schedule you can point Latte at.
- Capture one thing — the next deadline you can name, straight from your head. Best if you don't have a link handy and just want to start.
Either one gets you to the same place: Today, showing your next three.
Groups are real and useful, and they are not step one. You can use Latte on your own indefinitely, and nothing is locked behind joining anything. A Find your people card turns up on Today later, saying as much: "Groups are for shared notes and group tasks. They can wait until you need them." Dismiss it and nothing is lost.
This page is written from the code, not from a running app — no environment was available to shoot it. The images below show a described placeholder instead.
- 🖥 Web
- 📱 Mobile
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Sign in. A new account opens on Let's put your week in one place — "Connect where your dates already live, or capture the one thing on your mind. The rest can wait."
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Connect a source. Pick whichever matches what you have:
- Upload a timetable — "An .ics file or a calendar link from your school." See Subscribe to a calendar link and Set up your school schedule.
- Google Calendar — "Sync the calendar you already use." See Google Calendar sync.
- Add your courses — "From a syllabus, a feed, or by hand." See Choose your courses and activities and Import deadlines from a syllabus.
Each one opens a single step, and the back action at the top left returns you to the choice.
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Or capture one thing — "A deadline, a reading, anything. It takes seconds." Latte takes you to Today and opens the share sheet there so you can write it down. See Quick-capture a resource.
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Not ready for either? Skip for now goes straight to Today. Nothing is left half-done, and you can do any of the above later.
Screenshot coming soonThe web Today page on a brand-new account: the greeting header reading all clear, the Up next and next-three cards in their designed empty states inviting a first task, and the dismissible find-your-people card lower down the column -
Every route ends on Today — with Up next and Your next three once you have something to do, and Just start — 10 min on the first of them.
The desktop app follows the same path.
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Sign in and confirm the one-time welcome card. Latte opens on the Today tab — there is no setup screen to get through.
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While your account is empty, a Get started card sits at the top of Today — "Two things make Latte useful: what is already in your timetable, and the one thing on your mind right now."
Screenshot coming soonThe first-run card at the top of the mobile Today tab on a brand-new account — a short line of body text, then two tappable rows (connect a schedule, capture one thing) each with an icon and a hint, a quiet link to find groups below them, and a dismiss action in the card header -
Connect your schedule — "Subscribe to your university's calendar link." It opens your synced sources, where you paste the link — see Subscribe to a calendar link.
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Capture one thing — "A deadline, a reading, anything." It opens quick capture set to create a task, so the first thing you type lands somewhere that ranks it — see Quick-capture a resource.
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Find your groups below them is a quiet link, not a third button, and Dismiss puts the card away. Either way the card disappears on its own once you have a task or a connected source — it never blocks the app, and dismissing it skips nothing.
What happens next
- Today starts with your next three — three tasks in order, with one button to start the first.
- Once a source is connected, what moved since yesterday tells you when your school changes something.
- Your week lives under Calendar, with Tasks beside it — see A tour of Latte.
Groups, shared notes and meeting scheduling are all still there when you want them. They work better once your own week is in Latte, which is the real reason they come second.