These guides explain the ideas and philosophy behind Sisukas.

Start Here: The Philosophy#

The Big Picture – Why we design this way

• Core belief: conflicts are inevitable, not errors
• How discovery and planning work together
• The phased planning approach

Discovery: Finding Courses#

How We Filter – Fast, expressive course discovery

• Information should be accessible
• Natural Boolean logic without query languages
• Filtering as a core philosophy

Planning: Assembling Your Semester#

Plans & The Block Model – Grouping and composing

• Why course instances are partitioned into blocks
• How Plans work as exploration workspaces
• The composability principle

Schedule Pairs – Finding good combinations

• How one study group per block forms complete timetable options
• Ranking schedules to support informed choice

Decision Slots – Making trade-offs explicit

• Why some conflicts are unavoidable
• Explicitly choosing how you will attend
• Reflecting on repeated compromises

Year Timeline – Seeing your academic year as a whole

• Completed, ongoing, and planned studies in one view
• Automation-first (no manual maintenance)

Ready to Build?#

See Planning Architecture for implementation details.