Suggested habits

Beyond habits you teach by hand, Plainwork watches for repeated patterns in how you work and suggests automating them.

How suggestions appear

When Plainwork notices you doing the same sequence often, it surfaces it in the detected section on the home screen, with how many times it's seen it.

• automate — build the habit for you. Plainwork does the task once, live, to learn the exact steps (see below).
• ignore — dismiss the suggestion.

Privacy

Pattern detection runs entirely on your device. What you do is aggregated locally to spot repetition. Raw screen content never leaves your machine for detection. Only when you choose to teach or run a habit does Plainwork act on the specific apps involved. You can pause recording or clear captured data at any time. For more defailts about this, see Recording & your data.

Turning a suggestion into a habit

Picking automate builds the habit automatically:

1. Plainwork runs the task once, live, driving the apps involved to reproduce it — you watch it work. Nothing irreversible (sending, deleting) happens on this first run; those steps are only recorded.
2. You get the same review as a taught habit: the steps, which folders it can read, and a schedule. It doesn't run on its own until you save.

What Plainwork detected is only a hint — a coarse outline with no captured text — so the goal leads and it discovers the real steps as it goes. If it can't reproduce the task automatically, it offers to let you demonstrate it instead, dropping you into the teach flow with the goal filled in.