TRAVEI

Your TRAVEI manual

TRAVEI is free: no paid plan, no credit card and no end date. This guide shows how to sign in, how to put the app on your phone, how to turn on reminders and what each part does.

It takes about 5 minutes to read. If you prefer, open the app and come back here when you have a question.

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TRAVEI in 1 minute

  1. Dump it. Write everything that’s on your mind in the List. Each comma becomes a task.
  2. Pick one. The Today screen shows just one task. Write a very small first step.
  3. Start. Tap “I started”. Stuck? Tap “I’m stuck” and swap it for a 2-minute step.
  4. Let your phone remind you. Turn on notifications and pick a time. Every day TRAVEI nudges you with the first step.
STEP 1

Create your account

  1. Open travei.com.br/app.
  2. Tap ✩ Create a free account.
  3. Enter your email and tap Send me the link. Got an invite? Use the invited email.
  4. Open the email you get (check spam and the Promotions tab too) and tap the link: you’re in.
  5. On the Just one more step screen, enter what we should call you, tick the box I’m 18 or older and I accept
 and tap Start for free.
  6. That’s it. No password needed: to sign in again, tap Sign in with an email link. If you prefer a password, create one in Settings.

The email didn’t arrive?

Check spam and the Promotions tab, and make sure the email was typed correctly. If it still hasn’t arrived, wait a minute and ask for another link. Already have an account and forgot the password? On the Sign in screen, tap I forgot my password.

Open TRAVEI →
STEP 2

Putting TRAVEI on your phone

TRAVEI isn’t in the app stores: you install it straight from the browser and it gets an icon on your home screen, just like an app. It takes up almost no space.

When you open TRAVEI on your phone, you’ll see Install TRAVEI at the top. Tap Install: on Android it installs right away; on iPhone it shows the steps below.

Android (Chrome)

  1. Open travei.com.br/app in Chrome.
  2. Tap the three dots ⋼ in the top corner.
  3. Choose Install app or Add to Home screen.
  4. Confirm. The TRAVEI icon shows up with your other apps.

iPhone (Safari)

  1. Open travei.com.br/app in Safari (it doesn’t work in other browsers).
  2. Tap the Share button ⬆ in the bottom bar.
  3. Scroll and tap Add to Home Screen.
  4. Tap Add. The icon appears on your home screen.

It works on a computer too: just bookmark travei.com.br/app.

STEP 3

Turning on phone notifications

With notifications on, TRAVEI nudges you at the time you choose, with the first step of your current task. Kids get a notification as soon as the family sends a reminder.

Android

  1. Install TRAVEI on your home screen (step 2) or open travei.com.br/app in Chrome.
  2. Sign in and go to Settings.
  3. On the Phone notifications card, tap Turn on notifications and then Allow.
  4. Tap Send a test. A notification arrives in a few seconds.

iPhone

  1. First install TRAVEI on the Home Screen from Safari (step 2). On iPhone, notifications only work this way, with iOS 16.4 or later.
  2. Open TRAVEI from the icon and go to Settings.
  3. Tap Turn on notifications and then Allow.
  4. Tap Send a test to check.

Daily reminder to start

After turning them on, switch on Daily reminder to start and pick a time. Every day at that time, you get a notification with the first step of your current task. If you tap Pause TRAVEI in Settings, the notifications stop.

Didn’t get it?

  • Android: phone Settings → Apps → Chrome (or TRAVEI) → Notifications → on. Also check that Do Not Disturb is off.
  • iPhone: Settings → Notifications → TRAVEI → Allow Notifications. Also check Focus (the moon) in Control Center.
  • New phone or cleared your browser? Turn it on again in Settings. Each device is set up separately.
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Today: start without getting stuck

The Today screen shows just one task, your current mission. The idea is that you don’t have to decide where to start.

  1. Write the task’s first step, really small. Example: instead of “pay the bills”, “open the bank app”.
  2. Tap I started when you start. Starting already counts, even if you stop later.
  3. Finished? Done ✓.
  4. Stuck? Tap I’m stuck. Write a step of 2 minutes or less. Example: “just open the file”.
  5. Today really isn’t happening? Leave it for tomorrow. No guilt and nothing resets.

The day’s other tasks sit below. The little arrow → makes any of them your current mission.

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List: dump what’s on your mind

In the List, write everything just as it comes. Each line or each comma becomes a task.

Example: call the dentist, send the report, buy dog food becomes three tasks.

đŸŽ€ Rather talk? Tap đŸŽ€ Speak, next to “What’s on your mind?”, and say one thing at a time, with a pause between them: each pause becomes a task. Tap âč Stop when you’re done, check the text and tap Organize. The first time, your phone asks for permission to use the microphone.

If it says the browser can’t listen, use your keyboard’s microphone. On iPhone: Settings → General → Keyboard → turn on Dictation. On Android: use Chrome, or the đŸŽ€ on the Google keyboard.

Before saving, choose For today, For tomorrow, Choose a day
 (opens a calendar) or No day. Then just move between the Today, Tomorrow, Later and Done tabs.

⏰ Phone reminder: in the No reminder field, choose at the time, 15 min / 30 min / 1 hour / 1 day / 1 week before, or every so often (every 30 min, 1 hour, 3 hours or every day, until you do it). In Custom
 you pick the number and the unit (minutes, hours, days or weeks). For “before”, also pick the task’s time. The reminder arrives on your phone and, when you tap it, TRAVEI opens right on the task, ready to help. Notifications need to be turned on in Settings.

🔁 Repeating tasks: in the Doesn’t repeat field, choose Every day, Every week (and tap the days), Every 15 days or Every month. When you mark it “Done”, the next one shows up on its own. If a day doesn’t work out, it moves to the next date, without piling up overdue tasks. To change it or stop repeating, tap edit on the task.

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Patterns and Journey

Patterns

Shows, over 7, 30 or 90 days, how many things you started, what gets you stuck the most and what time of day you usually start. It’s for getting to know yourself, not for judging yourself. Have kids set up in Family? At the top of Patterns there’s a button with each child’s name: tap it to see what time they start most, what got them stuck and which family requests they did. Only you can see this.

Journey

At the top is Your real progress: how many things you started and finished this week compared with last week, a chart of the last 4 weeks, how long it takes you between writing something down and starting it, your best streak of days and how many times you got unstuck. Always you compared with you. Below that is the character. Every start earns points: starting +20, finishing +30, asking for a smaller step when you’re stuck +5. You grow by starting, not by being perfect. There are bonuses too: coming back after 2 or more days away +15, and a streak from the 3rd day in a row +5 a day. And you can lose a little: a day with a planned task and nothing started −10; from the 3rd day in a row without starting anything, −15 a day (at most 5 days). A phase you’ve reached stays with you, and while paused (Settings → Pause TRAVEI) you lose nothing. Not into the character? You can turn it off in Settings.

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♿ Language style and accessibility

In Settings → Language style and accessibility you change how TRAVEI writes and speaks. It takes effect right away. We don’t ask for a diagnosis: choose whatever works best for you.

🗣 Direct and literal

No metaphors, no double meanings, no irony and no game words. It says what happened and what to do next. Example: instead of “Mission accomplished! 🏆”, you see “You finished the task. You earned 30 points.” Suited, for example, to autism and social (pragmatic) communication disorder.

đŸ§© Simple

Short sentences, one idea per sentence, everyday words, also with no metaphors. Example: “Done! You got 30 points.” Suited to reading difficulties or to anyone who prefers short sentences.

🔊 Read aloud

Shows the 🔊 button at the top (reads the screen) and on each task and reminder. It can read notices automatically and speak more slowly. It uses your phone’s own voice. To write by talking, use đŸŽ€ Speak in the List.

👁 Easier reading

Large or larger text, high contrast and more space between letters and lines (helps people with dyslexia or who lose their place in the lines).

For your kids: in Family, open your child’s profile and tap ♿ Language style and accessibility. You choose the language style, and you also choose the app language (PortuguĂȘs or English) for your child. Your child can also adjust the voice and text size on their own device.

Low vision and blindness: TRAVEI works with your phone’s built-in screen reader (VoiceOver on iPhone, TalkBack on Android), and the 🔊 button helps people with low vision. We’re still reviewing every screen with a screen reader; if something isn’t read properly, let us know through Suggest an improvement.

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Family

For moms, dads and guardians of kids and teens aged 8 to 17.

  1. In Family, add your son or daughter (name, birth year and character) and accept the responsibility terms.
  2. Tap Create code. The code works for 10 minutes. A link shows up with it: tap đŸ“€ Send instructions to send, by WhatsApp or text message, a picture with the steps, the code and a QR code. You can also đŸ–Œ Download image and send the 📄 App guide (PDF), made for kids and teens. If your child uses the app in English, everything goes in English: the picture guide, with screenshots of the app and the button for each step marked in red, and a short video with captions. The screenshots come in dark mode and in light mode (easier for some kids with low vision or visual sensitivity). In Family → child’s profile → ♿, pick the Theme: your child’s app opens in that theme and the picture guide goes in the same version.
  3. On your child’s phone: on Android, just tap the link and TRAVEI signs in. On iPhone, first add TRAVEI to the Home Screen (Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen), open it from there, tap I have a family code and type the code. On iPhone the installed app keeps its data separate from Safari, so the code has to be typed inside the app.
  4. That’s it. From your app you can send reminders (with a ready-made picture or a photo; your child’s phone gets a notification if they turn notifications on), tasks, and set up the weekly reward: choose whether it takes all the requests or at least some (for example, 5 of 7), and also the delivery day (which shows up in your child’s treasure chest). And you can follow what got done.

On your child’s phone, the Requests tab keeps, week by week, the reminders and tasks the family sent, with the pictures.

💡 Tip: how to choose the reward goal

  • Start with a goal your child can reach most weeks (about 3 out of 4). Winning a few times at the start is what makes a child believe it’s worth trying.
  • “At least 5 of 7” usually works better than “all of them”. With all or nothing, one bad day is enough for a child to feel they’ve already lost and give up on the rest of the week.
  • Watch out for a goal that’s too easy, like 2 of 10: the prize is guaranteed and stops motivating effort.
  • Raise it little by little. Reached the goal easily for 2 or 3 weeks? Add 1 request. Missed it two weeks in a row? Go back a step. That isn’t punishment, it’s adjustment.
  • Go for small rewards, agreed on in advance and given on the set day. For kids with ADHD, the closer the reward comes to the effort, the better it works. That’s why it’s worth choosing the delivery day.
  • Praise the effort along the way, not just the result: “I saw you started your homework on your own today” means a lot.
OPTIONAL

📅 My day: your calendar and TRAVEI together

In My day you see, on a timeline, the events from your Google calendar, your TRAVEI tasks and the time of your daily reminder. Tap the days at the top to see tomorrow or the week. On your phone, open it from the My day card on the Today screen.

  1. On a computer, open calendar.google.com → ⚙ Settings.
  2. Under Settings for my calendars, click your calendar and scroll to Integrate calendar.
  3. Copy the Secret address in iCal format.
  4. In TRAVEI, open My day, paste the address and tap Connect calendar.
  • The secret address gives access to your calendar: only paste it into TRAVEI and don’t send it to anyone.
  • Events are read on the spot; tap ↻ to refresh.
  • Work calendars (Google Workspace) sometimes don’t show the secret address: that’s blocked by the company.
  • To disconnect: at the bottom of the My day screen, tap Disconnect Google Calendar.
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📅 See it in Google Calendar

Your tasks with a set day can show up in Google Calendar, alongside your other events.

  1. In TRAVEI, go to Settings → See it in Google Calendar → Create calendar link and tap Copy link.
  2. Open calendar.google.com in a browser, preferably on a computer. The Google Calendar phone app doesn’t accept links.
  3. Under Other calendars, tap + → From URL, paste the link and tap Add calendar.

On iPhone: tap Subscribe on iPhone and confirm. The TRAVEI calendar shows up in the Calendar app.

  • It’s one-way: what you change in TRAVEI shows up in the calendar, but changing the calendar doesn’t change TRAVEI.
  • Google updates at its own pace: a new task can take a few hours (sometimes up to a day) to show up.
  • The link is personal: anyone who has it can see your tasks. If you shared it by mistake, tap Change link.
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Settings

  • What should we call you: the name shown at the top.
  • Language: PortuguĂȘs or English. It changes the app on this device.
  • Discreet mode: removes the character and the animations. Points stay.
  • Theme: dark or light.
  • Phone notifications: turn on, test and pick the time for the daily reminder.
  • See it in Google Calendar: create, change or turn off your calendar link.
  • Quiet hours: no notifications during this time. The daily reminder follows the time you chose.
  • Pause TRAVEI: stops all notifications without deleting anything. Good for vacations or days when you need quiet.
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Suggest an improvement

Found something confusing, something that didn’t work, or had an idea? On a computer, tap 💡 Suggest an improvement in the side menu. On your phone, it’s in Settings, on the 💡 Suggest an improvement to TRAVEI button.

Pick the type, write it your way and send it. The answer shows up right there, under your suggestion, and sometimes by email too. When there’s a new answer, a pink dot appears in the menu. You can write in English or Portuguese.

TALK TO US

Questions and feedback

TRAVEI grows with the people who use it, and your feedback really changes the app. What got you stuck, what was confusing, what you wish existed: tell us everything.

The easiest way is Suggest an improvement, inside the app. If you prefer, write to contato@travei.com.br.