Getting started

Charya gets your Mac ready for class. You show it a class once, and it sets that class up for you from then on. Setting it up takes about 2 minutes.

For macOS 14 or later.

Set it up

Charya walks you through it, one screen at a time. Here's what's coming.

Open the download, then double-click Charya.If your Mac asks whether you're sure you want to open it, click Open. Charya moves itself to your Applications folder and opens again from there.
Sign in with Google.It's how Charya knows it's you. Your account keeps your name, email and plan, and nothing Charya learns about your routine.
Pick the calendar with your classes.Apple Calendar or Google Calendar. Charya reads it only to know when your classes are, and never changes anything in it. No classes on your calendar? Click Not now, and show Charya something you do often instead, like homework at 9.
Pick a class you have this week.Charya may ask for one switch first, in System Settings, so it can see the files you open and where your windows go. Your Mac may ask for your password or fingerprint. That's normal.
Show it.A small panel with Puff appears at the top of your screen. Open what you use for the class: your notes, the course page, the slides. Each one pops onto the panel as Charya catches it. The first time you open a page, your Mac asks whether Charya can read your browser's front tab: click Allow. Put the windows where you like them, then click Done.
Watch.Charya puts everything away, then sets your class back up, windows and all. Nothing is closed: the apps it puts away are just hidden.
Say how next time goes.Set it up by itself, and your class is ready as you sit down. Or have Charya ask first. Then show it another class, or you're done.

Classes you showed Charya are set up as you open your Mac for them. If one isn't right, click Undo, and it asks first next time.
Classes you didn't are learned as you go. Open what you'd normally open, and Charya may ask whether that was your setup for the class. Click Save.
Puff mentions the rest when it's useful: where he lives, how to change a routine, Lock in. Once each.

Show it another class. Click the cloud in your menu bar, then Show Charya a class.
See your routines. Click the cloud, then Routines. Each one says what it opens, when, and whether Charya asks first or just does it.
Change one. Click a routine to add or take out apps, files and pages, change when it runs, or mute your Mac.
Lock in. Turn on Lock in for a routine, and only its apps can come to the front. Puff chases off everything else until you tell him you're done.

Nothing pops onto the panel. Charya catches what you bring to the front after the panel appears. Click the app or page again. For files and window places, turn on the switch next to Charya in System Settings, Privacy & Security, Accessibility. Settings in Charya lists what it can see, with a Turn on button for each.
Your class isn't on the list. Check that it's in the calendar you picked, and comes again. Or choose Something else I do often.
Charya set up something you didn't want. Click the cloud in your menu bar, then Undo. Tell Charya whether it was just today or the routine is wrong, and it asks first next time.

Email niravsurabhi@gmail.com. What Charya reads and keeps is all in the privacy policy.