Specimen 003 / Your Timed Intake Assistant
A little order. A little breathing room.
TARA helps your schedule keep up anyway.
Native Apple application / iPhone + iPad
TARA makes
time visible.
Medicine, vitamins, supplements, water and other timed routines. One understandable sequence.
Timing, scheduling, reminders and history. Healthcare decisions stay with the person and their clinician.
Folder 01 / OriginMorning
A notification arrives while you are cooking. Another disappears during a meeting. Somewhere between the keys and the school bag, the schedule becomes something you have to keep in your head.
The problem is more than remembering an alarm. It is knowing where you are in the sequence. What happened? What is next?
A schedule has to coexist with life.
Folder 02 / ExperimentLate morning
Give the next moment weight. Let later moments stay quieter. Make the distance to a preferred time visible.
The hypothesis was simple: a sequence is easier to understand than a pile of independent alarms.
The Smart Time Bar
TARA moves along the bar as time passes. The diamond marks the preferred time. The amber segment shows the chosen preference window.
Position gives you proximity. Names, times and status labels give it meaning.
Before the preferred window
Default amber band: 20 minutes before and after. The wider reminder window is 3 hours each side. Both are adjustable organisational preferences; they do not determine whether an intake is medically safe.
Folder 03 / SystemMidday
Set up the routine. Live your day. Record an action. Continue.
Today, recurrence, reminders and History share the same idea of a moment. TARA is the small companion that makes that system easier to read.
Product evidence / Native app captures with fictional release examples · 7 October 2026
iPhone / The assistant in your pocket
The first relevant intake expands. Its timing bar, Take and Skip actions stay together.
Compact cards show later moments. Repeated occurrences retain the intake’s visual identity and their own times.
Record Take or Skip. That moment leaves the upcoming sequence. The next one becomes primary.
The screenshots show the real native interface. Their example names and amounts demonstrate the UI, not a suggested routine.
Name the intake, choose its category and optional amount, then establish its times and days.
Today gives the first relevant moment room. Later moments follow in chronological order.
Take and Skip record your choice. Resolved moments leave the upcoming sequence.
The next moment takes the lead. History keeps the outcomes behind you.
Recurrence / Powered by GAMAEvents
Pick the first time. TARA suggests the sequence. Adjust a slot with a controlled replacement, then choose the days.
Choose one to four times per day on a calendar schedule, or an elapsed interval from 1 to 24 hours. Hourly and half-hourly controls set the time-selection grid; they do not prescribe intake frequency.
Calendar schedules support every day, every 2 or 3 days, or selected weekdays, and keep their configured time zone. Elapsed intervals continue across day boundaries. Taking an intake late records that action; it does not automatically prescribe or recalculate a new dosing plan.
iPad / The same rhythm, more room
TARA adapts its native interface to the larger canvas. The bounded reading column keeps cards readable and shows more moments together.
It shares the same timing and recurrence model. The larger screen brings perspective.
WidgetKit / Beyond the application
The same sequence reaches the Home Screen and Lock Screen. The available space determines how much of the day appears.
Home Screen widget capacities. Medium and Large support Take for the first active moment. Lock Screen: Inline, Circular and Rectangular. Apple controls widget refresh timing.
Standard reminders are local to each device. Optional iOS 26+ alarms require separate permission and are off by default. Stopping an alarm does not record an intake.
Read the current reminder guide ↗History / A record of the day
Taken. Skipped. Missed. Week, Month and All Time views show outcomes, daily counts and recent details.
The record answers what you did. It does not interpret health outcomes.
Folder 04 / ProblemsAfternoon complexity
Four design failure modes. Each study makes one source of confusion tangible: identity, hierarchy, recurrence and visibility.
Conceptual stress studies grounded in the current design.
Study 01
The same intake can appear more than once in a day. Without a relationship between those moments, repetition can look like an accidental duplicate.
A stable identity comes from the intake, not the row. Shared colours support recognition; names and times preserve meaning without colour.
Study 02
If every upcoming event gets equal visual weight, the person has to decide what matters every time they look.
Today expands one primary moment. Compact cards keep the rest visible without demanding equal attention.
Study 03
Counts, intervals, selected days and replacement slots can turn a simple setup into a small arithmetic project.
Choose the first time. Generate a sequence. Replacing an elapsed-time slot shifts the anchor so the interval stays coherent.
Study 04
An accurate schedule still asks too much if its next moment is buried behind several screens.
Widgets expose the upcoming sequence. Local reminders bring attention back at the relevant moment.
Folder 05 / SolutionsEvening calm
One primary moment. A clear sequence behind it. Familiar colours, names and timing.
The work is in the handover: record Take or Skip, preserve what happened, then let the next moment become primary.
A primary card carries the action. Later moments stay compact and chronological.
A stable intake ID selects one of eight tonal palettes. Its occurrences keep that signature, alongside readable names and times.
Take or Skip records the outcome. The next relevant moment takes the primary position.
Deactivate pauses an intake. Delete removes its definition and upcoming moments after confirmation. Past history remains.
Personal routines / Personal boundaries
Trust also lives in what a product chooses to keep, share and leave alone.
Read TARA’s privacy policy ↗She guides the timing.
You make the decisions.
Folder 06 / EvolutionNight → next morning
Seven conceptual mutations. One increasingly understandable day.
Conceptual evolution / A rhythm takes shape.
Mutation 001 / I
One alert marks one time.
A reminder can catch your attention. It cannot explain the whole day.
Mutation 002 / II
Separate events become a visible day.
Chronology gives each moment a place and lets the next one take priority.
Mutation 003 / III
Distance to a preferred time becomes visible.
The timing rail communicates proximity using position, labels and an adjustable preference band.
Mutation 004 / IV
The same intake stays recognisable, later.
A consistent tonal identity connects occurrences without making colour the only cue.
Mutation 005 / V
The next moment reaches beyond the app.
Different widget sizes expose different amounts of the upcoming sequence.
Mutation 006 / VI
What happened stays understandable.
Taken, skipped and missed describe recorded timing outcomes, not health outcomes.
Mutation 007 / VII
The pieces become one calm experience.
The original TARA mascot links timing, state and feedback with a familiar presence.
Current state / DEPLOYED
A native iPhone and iPad application for timed routines, reminders and history. Timing and organisation are its job. Healthcare decisions remain with the person and their clinician.