Dashboard Walkthrough

Quiet Mode

Quiet Mode used to be a setting you turned on. It isn't any more. The dashboard it was trying to get to is the one everybody gets now, so there is nothing left to switch.

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Overview

What Happened to the Toggle

For about a year, Profile → Preferences carried a switch called Quiet Mode. Turning it on replaced the whole dashboard with a single health score and a short list of spending anomalies. Everything else went away until you turned it back off.

We retired the switch in September 2026. Not because nobody used it. Because of what it implied: that the ordinary dashboard was too loud, and the fix was an opt-in for the people who noticed. That is a strange thing to believe about your own product and keep shipping anyway.

So the restraint moved into the default. Your dashboard now opens with one sentence, in plain language, answering the question you logged in to ask.

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Step by Step

What You See Instead

1. One sentence, first

The first thing on the page is a claim, not a chart. Something like “You can stop working in March 2034” or “You can stop working now.” If we don't have enough of your history to say it honestly, it says that instead of guessing.

2. The catch, if there is one

Reaching your number and staying above it are two different questions, and a date only answers the first. When a plan crosses the line but runs dry too often afterwards, the line underneath says so in as many words. A good date over a fragile plan is the easiest way for a tool like this to mislead you.

3. Four sentences, not forty numbers

Under the headline, four cards speak for holdings, spending, goals and the projection. Each one either says something specific or says why it can't. A card with nothing to report tells you that, rather than filling the space.

4. Detail below, not instead

Balances, trend, spending breakdown and the rest are still on the page, further down. The change is the order. You read the answer before you read the evidence, and most days you can stop after the answer.

5. Nothing to configure

There is no mode to pick and no preference to remember. If you had Quiet Mode switched on, you don't need to do anything; the setting simply stopped being read.

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Pro Tips

•The anomalies didn't go anywhere. Quiet Mode never detected them itself; it borrowed them from Spending Health, which is still running and still has its own page. That is where the “this category is above your usual pace” work lives.
•A weekly check-in still works. That was the real use case, and it survives the change. Read the first sentence, glance at the four cards, close the tab. The page is built assuming you have something else to do.
•Bookmarks and links still resolve. This page kept its address on purpose. If you linked someone to it, or you are reading it because you remembered the feature, you have landed somewhere that explains what replaced it rather than a missing page.

See the Dashboard

One sentence at the top, and the numbers underneath it if you want them.

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