Social Energy Battery
Map your week's events and predict when your social energy hits the danger zone.
How the math works
Your week is modeled as a running energy balance, not a list of events judged in isolation. Each day starts with the energy level carried over from the day before; events scheduled that day drain or recharge it by an assigned amount, and the day's ending energy is the starting level plus the sum of that day's events, clamped between 0 and 100. A day is flagged as a "danger day" when the ending balance drops below 20 — and on danger days, the model highlights whichever single event contributed the most to the drain, giving you a concrete candidate to reschedule.
"Social battery" isn't a clinically measured quantity — it's a popular framework, especially resonant for introverts, for a real and widely reported experience: social interaction depletes something, and rest restores it. Modeling it as an explicit numeric balance turns a normally vague "I'm peopled out" feeling into something visible before the week starts, not just after it's already happened.
Where this doesn't apply
- Individual energy patterns vary a lot — the default delta values and 20-point danger threshold are generalized starting points, not a personal measurement.
- Not everyone experiences social interaction as net-draining — some people are net-energized by most social contact.
- Chronic, persistent depletion regardless of how a week is planned is worth discussing with a mental health professional, not just a scheduling optimization.