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Documentation Index

Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.kneadapp.co/llms.txt

Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

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Overview

Every recipe in The Pantry can be broken down into the steps you actually do to make it. Each step carries a time category — Active, Passive, or Equipment — and that’s what lets The Sweet Spot plan your real workload instead of guessing. Active time competes for your hands, passive time fills the calendar without tying you up, and equipment time locks a resource like your oven. You’ll find steps on any recipe page (/pantry/recipes/[id]) in the card titled How it comes together. The How it comes together card with Prep, Bake, Rest, and Decorate steps and Active/Passive/Equipment badges

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The three time categories

  • Active — hands-on work like mixing or decorating. This counts as labor competing for your attention.
  • Passive — unattended waiting like proofing, resting, or chilling. It occupies the calendar but not your hands.
  • Equipment — ties up a named resource. Bake is Equipment and locks the oven, so the calendar schedules around it.

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Built-in step types

Knead ships with these step types, each with a default time category:
  • Prep 🥣
  • Bake 🔥
  • Rest ⏳
  • Freeze 🧊
  • Chill ❄️
  • Decorate 🎨
  • Assemble 🏗️
  • Package 📦
  • Custom ⚙️ (generic, for anything else)

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Adding and editing steps

  1. On the recipe page, find How it comes together. If it’s empty you’ll see: “No production steps yet. Tap below to break down how you make this — the calendar will thank you.”
  2. Click Add a step and pick a type card.
  3. Expand the step to edit its details:
    • Step type — the chip row to switch types.
    • Label — only for Custom steps (e.g. “Overnight proof”).
    • Hands-on time — accepts formats like 1h 30m, 90m, or 1.5h.
    • Waiting time — e.g. 1h, 2h.
    • When you make more — scaling behavior (see Scaling Constraints and Batch Limits).
    • Max yield per session — caps how much one session can produce.
    • Notes — anything else worth remembering.
  4. Use Move up, Move down, or Remove to reorder or delete.
If a step has no time entered, you’ll see “This step has no time set — is that right?” as a gentle nudge.
Good to know: Collapsed step rows show an Active, Passive, or Equipment badge, and the card summarizes everything in one line — e.g. “3 steps · 1h 30m hands-on · 2h waiting”.

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Creating custom step types

If you do something repeatedly (piping, cooling, a special proof), make it a reusable step type:
  1. Go to Settings → Capacity (/settings/capacity, the “Capacity Configuration” page).
  2. In Custom Step Types (“Create reusable step types that appear alongside Prep, Bake, etc. in the recipe editor”), click New type.
  3. Fill in:
    • Label — e.g. “Pipe”, “Proof”, “Cool”.
    • Emoji and Color.
    • Time category — Active, Passive, or Equipment.
    • Equipment used — shown only for Equipment types; this is the resource lock.
    • Default hands-on (min) and Default wait (min).
  4. Click Create Step Type. It now appears alongside the built-in types in the recipe editor.
The Custom Step Types form under Settings, Capacity

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Tracking equipment

Equipment lives in the Equipment section above Custom Step Types (“Track ovens, mixers, and other equipment so the calendar knows when they’re in use”). Set How many? to your quantity and click Add Equipment. Once equipment exists, you can attach it to Equipment step types so the calendar knows when it’s in use.
Pro tip: Be honest about active vs. passive time. A four-hour proof shouldn’t block your whole afternoon — mark it passive so The Sweet Spot can stack other work on top of it.
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