Help & docs

How the tool works

Tracing, the three views, floors, reports and billing — the short version of each.

Getting started

From an empty workspace to a finished analysis.

How do I start my first project?

On the dashboard, press New Project. You have two ways in: upload a floor plan (an image or a PDF page) and trace over it, or start on a gridded sheet and draw the plan yourself with the wall tools.

If you would rather look around first, the getting-started checklist has an Open sample button. It creates a real, editable project with an L-shaped plot already traced, so you can see the chakra, the devta mandala and a report before uploading a client's drawing.

How do I trace a plot and set North?

Click each corner of the plot in order, then close the outline — the Shakti Chakra lands on it immediately. Corners can be dragged afterwards, and an edge can be moved from its midpoint.

North Orientation is in the sidebar. 0° means north is straight up on the drawing; rotate it to match the site plan's north arrow. Every zone, devta and marma reading follows from it, so it is worth getting right before you interpret anything.

Why do measurements need a scale?

A drawing is pixels until you tell the tool what one known distance is. Pick Scale, click the two ends of a wall you know the length of, and type that length.

After that, measurements read in feet, zone areas are real areas, and a measurement can be corrected by typing the true value — which recalibrates the scale rather than just relabelling the line.

The analysis

Zones, devtas, marma points and the entrance.

What are the three views?

Shakti Chakra divides the plot into 8, 16 or 32 zones from its centre, with the direction ring and degree ruler around it. The 45-Devta Mandala places the devtas over the same plot. Marma points shows the 9×9 grid, the Brahmasthan and the diagonals, flagging anything sitting on a sensitive point.

Press 1, 2 or 3 in the editor to switch, or use the command palette (⌘K / Ctrl K).

The centre looks wrong on my L-shaped plot.

For irregular plots the tool computes a robust centre rather than a plain average of the corners, but the final call is yours: the Brahmasthan can be placed by hand, and every zone re-derives from where you put it.

A hand-placed centre is saved with the project, so it survives a reload and rides into the report.

Can I keep track of which remedies were agreed?

Yes. In the remedies view each devta's card can be marked Done, Pending or Not applicable, with a note of your own.

The status and the note print in the PDF and appear on a shared report link, so a client sees what was decided rather than a textbook list.

Projects and clients

Organising work, floors, and recovering deletions.

How do multi-floor buildings work?

Press the + button on a project card, or use the building chip at the left of the editor's toolbar, and name the floor. The floors sit indented under their building on the dashboard.

Each floor is a full project — its own plan, outline, north and analysis — because a first floor is a different drawing, not a layer of the ground floor. It also means each floor exports its own PDF and counts against your plan's project limit.

I changed something and want it back.

Undo (⌘Z / Ctrl Z) covers the current session. For anything older, open Restore points from the editor toolbar: the server keeps a point roughly every ten minutes of editing, plus any you save by name.

Restoring one is safe to try — the state you are in now is saved as a point first, so you can go straight back.

I deleted a project by mistake.

Go to Workspace → Trash. Deleted projects are kept there and can be restored, which also brings back any floors that went with the building.

Delete forever removes the project and its plan image permanently — that one cannot be undone. Restoring takes a project slot, so if your plan is full you will be asked to upgrade first.

What are clients for?

A consultation is usually several projects for one household — a site visit, a revised layout, a second floor. Filing them under a client keeps them together and is what makes a year-old project findable.

Deleting a client never deletes their projects; those simply become unfiled.

Reports and sharing

PDF exports and read-only links.

How do I export a report?

Export PDF in the sidebar (or the command palette) builds the report from the current analysis: the plan, each view, zone-wise areas, the entrance reading and the remedy list.

Wide plans are rotated a quarter turn so they fill a portrait page at full size instead of shrinking to fit.

Account and billing

Plans, limits and your data.

What counts towards my project limit?

Every project row: your own projects, duplicates, sample projects and each floor of a building. Projects in the trash do not count while they are deleted, but restoring one does.

Reaching the cap never locks you out of existing work — it only stops new projects being created.

Can I get a copy of my data?

Profile & security → export downloads a JSON file with your projects, folders and the plan images you uploaded.

Everything is stored server-side, so signing in from another computer shows the same workspace.

Still stuck?

Write to TODO@example.com with the project name and what you were doing — or see what changed recently.