# Playbooks: choosing your focus A Playbook is your declared focus: it decides which measures Home leads with, which rules of its own Meals carries, what VT asks you for and what Eir reads first, and it never changes how anything is measured or scored. Type: feature · Domain: Activities & Lifestyle · Accuracy: Not from a wearable · Importance: Core Also called: Playbook, choose a Playbook, switch Playbook, Also tracked, biomarkers in focus, gives its best with, requirement strip ## In one sentence A Playbook is your declared focus: it decides which measures Home leads with, which rules of its own Meals carries, what VT asks you for and what Eir reads first, and it never changes how anything is measured or scored. ## What a Playbook changes Four things. Home shows up to nine cards in the Playbook's order, and a card with nothing yet says what it needs in one sentence, with a button that takes you there: Weigh in, Start a CGM, Log a meal. On Weight Loss, Minimal Viable Health Habits, Metabolic Health and Keto Diet, a third page in the top carousel, Also tracked, keeps nine more measures one swipe away, because a focus should narrow your attention, not your data. Meals carries the Playbook's own rules, such as Keto Diet's carbohydrate cap; your protein, fiber and calorie targets are VT's own and the same under every Playbook. The Playbook lists what it gives its best with and asks for what is missing. And Eir's explanations read the Playbook's goal, and the measures it leads with, before they read your data. ## What it never changes Scores never move with the Playbook. The Vitality Score, the sleep scores, Capacity, the overnight comparison and the TDEE engine are computed the same way under every Playbook, because measurements move a score and a chosen focus does not. Nothing is hidden either: every card opens the same full chart it always did, and everything you record is kept whichever Playbook is active. ## Where you start On your first open, VT checks what your devices actually record before it places you. With a wearable that records your nights, you start on [*Longevity Playbook*](https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/longevity-playbook), the default. Without one, or with one that writes very little, you start on [*Essential Playbook*](https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/essential-playbook), and Home says why in one line. If your nights start arriving in the first 48 hours, VT moves you to Longevity and tells you; after that it offers it once. ## Switching One Playbook is active at a time, and you can switch whenever you like: on the Playbook screen in the app, or under Profile, Playbooks on the web. Before you switch, each Playbook shows its biomarkers in focus and what it gives its best with. When something is not in place yet, VT shows which cards would stay empty and lets you start anyway, unless the Playbook cannot work without it: Longevity needs a wearable that records your nights. A Weight Loss Plan keeps running whatever you switch to; choosing Weight Loss offers to set up a plan, and starting a plan offers to switch you to Weight Loss. All six Playbooks are on every plan, Free included. ## What it gives its best with Each Playbook lists the few things that let it work fully. One is needed, Longevity's wearable; the rest are asked for, or marked as helping. Each item shows In place or Not yet, You have this or Helps where it is optional, and Coming soon where VT is still building it, which for now means the lab panels. On every Playbook but Longevity, a slim strip on Home lists what is missing, each item one tap from its fix. If you know and would rather not be reminded, choose Snooze 30 days or I know, leave it. Reminders are few, spaced out and capped, at most one Playbook message a day, and they describe what is missing rather than scoring you on it. On some Playbooks, after the third unanswered reminder, VT offers once the Playbook that covers the same ground with what you have. ## The six [*Longevity Playbook*](https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/longevity-playbook), the default, for anyone with a wearable that records their nights. [*Weight Loss Playbook*](https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/weight-loss-playbook), with the Weight Loss Plan in front. [*Minimal Viable Health Habits Playbook*](https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/mvhh-playbook), for holding what you have built. [*Metabolic Health Playbook*](https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/metabolic-health-playbook), glucose stability first. [*Keto Diet Playbook*](https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/keto-diet-playbook), for a ketogenic diet with the numbers in view. [*Essential Playbook*](https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/essential-playbook), the starting point when there is no wearable yet. ## Sources 1. Vitality Tracker, the Features page (Playbook Selection) 2. the Playbook catalogue as published, November 2026 (versions, Home cards, requirements and reminder rules). ## Related - [Longevity Playbook](https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/longevity-playbook) - [Essential Playbook](https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/essential-playbook) - [Weight Loss Playbook](https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/weight-loss-playbook) - [Minimal Viable Health Habits Playbook](https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/mvhh-playbook) - [Metabolic Health Playbook](https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/metabolic-health-playbook) - [Keto Diet Playbook](https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/keto-diet-playbook) - [Vitality Score](https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/vitality-score) - [What Eir can do, and what it won't](https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/what-eir-can-do) Reviewed November 2026 · v1 Source: https://vitalitytracker.app/knowledge/playbooks