How to Turn Off the Modules You Don't Need (and Why Fewer Is Better)

The instinct when setting up a new productivity tool is often to turn everything on — explore every feature, enable every module, see what's there. It's a reasonable impulse, and it's usually the wrong first move for a tool meant to be used daily, because a cluttered first impression is exactly what makes a tool feel like more work than it's replacing.

Step 1: start with the minimum, not the maximum

Begin with only the modules you already know you need — for most people, that's just Today, Plan, Calendar, and Projects, all of which are core in SooKOOBE and not optional to begin with. Resist the urge to also turn on Finance, Habits, Quran, Courses, Books, Goals, and Skills on day one just because they're available. Everything you're unsure about can wait.

Step 2: add a module only when you notice yourself needing it elsewhere first

The right trigger for enabling Finance isn't "it's there" — it's noticing you're already tracking expenses somewhere else (a separate app, a notebook) and feeling the friction of that separation. The right trigger for Habits is already having a habit you're trying to build and currently not tracking anywhere at all. Let the need show up first, then turn on the module that answers it, rather than turning modules on speculatively and hoping a use case appears.

Step 3: check Settings periodically, not just at setup

Module needs change over time — a Finance tracking phase might end, a new learning goal might start. Revisit Settings occasionally (not constantly) and turn off what's no longer relevant, the same deliberate way you turned it on. A module you enabled six months ago and haven't opened since is worth disabling, not because it's costing you anything dramatic, but because it's one more thing on your screen that no longer earns its place.

Step 4: understand that disabling never deletes anything

The reason this can be done freely, without anxiety about losing data, is that turning a module off only removes it from navigation — it doesn't touch anything you've already entered. If you disable Habits after tracking them for months and later re-enable it, everything is exactly where you left it. This is what makes experimentation with modules low-risk: you're never actually choosing between "keep this data" and "clean up my navigation," only between "see this in my nav right now" or not.

Step 5: resist adding a module just because someone else uses it

A module that's genuinely useful for someone else's life — Quran reading tracking, for instance, useful for many people and irrelevant for others — shouldn't be turned on out of a vague sense that a "complete" setup should include everything available. The whole design point of optional modules is that a complete setup for you looks different from a complete setup for someone else, and that's the correct outcome, not a compromise.

Step 6: judge the setup by how it feels to open, not by feature count

The actual measure of a good setup isn't how many modules are enabled — it's whether opening the app feels focused rather than cluttered. If checking Today feels like scanning past things you don't care about to find what you do, that's a signal to turn something off, regardless of whether that module is objectively "useful" in the abstract.

The underlying principle

Fewer enabled modules, chosen deliberately, beats more modules enabled by default — not because more features are bad, but because every visible feature you don't use is a small, continuous cost you pay for no benefit. Configure down to what you actually need, add only when a real need shows up, and treat an uncluttered daily view as worth more than a comprehensive one you never fully use.