No tutorials, no overwhelm. Just three steps from chaos to focus.
A practical 5-minute walkthrough to set up Hioii, do your first brain dump and time-box your day with zero friction.
This page covers how to use hioii in 5 minutes in practice: what to do first, how to turn it into real blocks in your calendar, and how to keep the plan alive when the day changes. Everything below is how we use Hioii ourselves — capture in Brain Dump, choose three outcomes, and box them into 30-minute slots with buffers.
Go to hioii.com, enter your email and you are in. No card, no onboarding maze. You get 20 free credits — enough to test brain dump, time boxing and AI mentor.
Open the dashboard and type everything on your mind — work, errands, worries — for 90 seconds. Hit enter between items. Hioii will auto-categorize them.
Drag the 3 that matter today to the Time Box grid. Each task becomes a 30-minute block. Start the first one and let Focus Mode hide everything else.
Mark what is done, move undone tasks to tomorrow, optional 30-second mood check-in. That is it. Total daily overhead: ~7 minutes.
Start in Brain Dump and empty your head — tasks, ideas, worries — without sorting them. Then mark the three that define a successful day and drag them onto the Time Box grid, where each block is 30 minutes and every block carries a buffer. When something breaks (and it will), Auto-Organize re-plans the rest of the day instead of leaving you with a stale schedule about how to use hioii in 5 minutes.
Teams do the same thing in Squad: a shared backlog, delegation with clear owners, and availability that shows busy or blocked slots without exposing the private content of anyone's calendar. Managers see delivery speed and a traffic-light view of what is on track — measurement without surveillance.
Hioii is free to start on the Basic plan, which includes monthly AI credits. Paid plans add more credits, longer history retention, Take Off data export and team features such as seats, shared projects and agent access through MCP.
No. The free plan is 100% free with 20 credits to test everything.
Most users feel the difference on day one — the brain dump alone reduces mental load instantly.
No. Hioii teaches you as you use it. The default 30-minute blocks are the right starting point.