# How Forkboard works

> How Forkboard plans your week: a real board that learns your taste, planning by energy, pantry awareness, household mode, and leftover intelligence.

Forkboard turns the nightly dinner scramble into one considered decision — made once, for the whole week, on a board that learns how you actually like to eat.

## 1. Shallow onboarding, not a quiz

Start with the essentials — cuisines you love, ingredients you can't stand, dietary needs, time, and confidence at the stove. No hour-long survey; Forkboard learns the rest from how you actually plan.

## 2. A 15-minute Monday and a two-hour Sunday

Tag a day by effort and the board plans the rest of the week around it. The same person makes both kinds of dinner; the plan respects that.

## 3. Pantry-aware planning

Tell Forkboard what's in the fridge — or snap a photo of a receipt — and it builds the week around what you have. Fewer trips, less waste.

## 4. It learns what you like

Every thumbs up or down moves the needle. No recipe feed to scroll; you rate, and tomorrow's board reflects it.

## 5. Household taste-blending

A Family board blends multiple taste profiles into one week that works for the whole house. Up to six seats, one shared board.

## 6. Leftover intelligence

The board sees all seven days at once, so Monday's roast chicken can become Thursday's tacos. When you're done, export a clean grocery list grouped the way your store is laid out.

Canonical page: https://forkboard.app/how-it-works