From a protocol PDF to a day that runs itself
Copy the text out of the document, paste it once, check what was read. Here is each step on a phone, and exactly what is taken from each line.
Copy the text, not the file
Tratto reads text you paste. It does not open PDFs and cannot read a scanned image. On most phones the document opens in a viewer that lets you select text:
iPhone
- Open the PDF in Files, Mail or Safari.
- Press and hold on a word, then drag the handles across the schedule. If a Select All option appears in the menu, use it.
- Tap Copy. In a long document selection may stop at the end of the page; copy and paste one page at a time, and Tratto reads each paste as more steps.
- Open Tratto, accept the notice on first open, tap Paste your protocol, press and hold in the box, then Paste.
Android
- Open the PDF and try a long-press on a word. If handles appear, drag them across the schedule and tap Copy.
- If nothing selects, the viewer is showing pictures of the pages. In Drive, tap the three dots, then Open with → Google Docs: it converts the file to text you can select.
- Open Tratto, accept the notice on first open, tap Paste your protocol, long-press in the box, then Paste.
If nothing can be selected anywhere, the PDF really is a picture of a page. Point your camera app or Google Lens at it and copy the text it lifts, or ask whoever sent it for the text version.
What it reads from each line
| In your text | What Tratto takes from it |
|---|---|
A clock time: 07:20, 7.20am, “mid-morning”, “bedtime” | The step’s time. Time words are read as the times they usually mean; change any of them on the confirm screen. |
| “On waking”, “30 minutes after getting up” | A step counted from when you got up, so it moves with your wake time. |
An amount in brackets or with a unit: (2 tsp), 1 drop, 4 capsules | Kept as the amount, marked as coming from your document. Tratto never fills one in. |
| “Wait 30–60 min”, “two hours clear” | A hold-off after that step, at the length your document states. |
| Nothing about waiting, on a step Tratto reads as a binder | Two hours of hold-off, assumed, labelled as Tratto’s assumption rather than your document, and changeable on the confirm screen. |
| A row from a table: number, time, name, description, portion | Name from the column after the time, amount from the last column when it reads like one, the description kept as the step’s note. |
| Headings, numbering, blank lines | Ignored. |
Check it before it is saved
Nothing is committed on paste. You get a confirm screen with every step, its time, its amount and where each came from. A step the document gave no time is highlighted and has to be given one before the day is built. Change anything there; the document’s own words for each row stay attached as a note.
From then on the day is laid out for you: your steps in order, counted from when you got up where the document says so, timed around your meals, with the hold-offs kept. How hold-offs move the rest of the day · What moves when you sleep in.