🎚️ Enabling Features

How Feature Toggles Work

Every major feature in Benji ships disabled by default, so you can enable only the tools you need. Once you turn a feature on, it appears in your navigation and becomes available across the app—in Alfred, widgets, the sidebar, and mobile toolbars.

Enabling a Feature

1. Open Settings (gear icon in the header or sidebar)
2. Navigate to Features
3. Find the feature you want and click its card
4. Toggle the switch to On
5. Choose where the feature should appear:
   • Show in sidebar (desktop left rail)
   • Show in mobile toolbar (bottom navigation on mobile)
   • Show a home widget (My Day dashboard tile)

After enabling, refresh the page once if the navigation doesn't update immediately. The toggle persists per user, so your settings sync across all your devices.

Disabling a Feature

Follow the same steps above and toggle the switch to Off. Disabling a feature:

• Removes it from navigation and Alfred
• Hides related widgets from your dashboard
• Keeps all your data intact—re-enabling the feature restores full access

Feature-Specific Settings

Some features include additional controls in their settings modal:

• Default values (e.g., pomodoro duration, hydration goal)
• Privacy controls (who can see timeline posts)
• Form customization (which fields appear when logging)
• Automation toggles (e.g., ambient sound auto-play during pomodoros)

Check each feature's documentation for details on what's configurable beyond the basic on/off switch.

Widget Management

Enabling "Show a home widget" adds the feature's widget to your My Day dashboard. To rearrange or remove widgets:

• Open My Day
• Enter Edit dashboard mode (button in the header)
• Drag widgets to reorder or click the remove icon to hide them
• Save when you're done

You can also add widgets from the dashboard editor's widget picker, even if you didn't enable them during initial setup.

Sidebar Favorites

Features you enable with "Show in sidebar" appear in the left rail on desktop. To reorder them:

• Hover over a sidebar item
• Drag the handle to rearrange
• Your order persists across sessions

Some features also support nested navigation (like Packing's sub-pages for Items, Activities, Stays, and Transports), which automatically appear when you enable the parent feature.

Mobile Toolbar

The mobile toolbar holds up to 5 shortcuts. When you enable more than 5 features with "Show in mobile toolbar," Benji groups extras in an overflow menu. Prioritize your most-used features to keep them directly accessible.