37 TOOLSInteractive methods

Find your next
useful tool.

Use every Practical Atlas calculator, simulator, symptom finder, and decision model from one organized, ad-free instrument index.

Editorial arrangement of calculators, calendar, receipt, measuring cup, scale, clock, fuel gauge, and ruler
TOOLS ATLAS / 37Everyday questions, made visible.

Each instrument exposes its assumptions before it gives an answer.

01

Home Systems

7 tools
HS-T01home-systems · interactiveCooling BTU estimator
Miniature room showing measured floor area, ceiling height, sunlight, occupants, and air-conditioner airflow

Screen a room air-conditioner capacity range from area, ceiling height, sun exposure, and occupancy.

HS-T02home-systems · interactiveHumidity and dew point calculator
Glass climate chamber showing humidity instruments, condensation, and a cooled metal surface

Calculate dew point and place an indoor relative-humidity reading in useful context.

HS-T03home-systems · interactiveAppliance energy cost calculator
Countertop appliance connected through a power meter beside a clock and electricity bill

Compare electricity costs for up to twelve appliances, model daily schedules, and estimate savings with your own rate.

HS-T04home-systems · interactiveRoom finish estimator
Measured wall, paint roller, flooring, tile, and counted finish-material packs

Estimate paint, flooring, tile, or drywall purchase units with explicit coverage, coats, and waste assumptions.

HS-T05home-systems · interactiveAppliance symptom triage
Washer with unplugged power cord, drain hose, external access panel, gloves, and flashlight

Turn visible refrigerator, washer, or dishwasher symptoms into the next safe external check.

HS-T06home-systems · interactiveGenerator sizing calculator
Household running loads, one elevated startup surge, explicit headroom, and a portable generator arranged as a capacity path

Screen continuous and starting-watt capacity from the loads you plan to run, the largest startup surge, and visible headroom.

HS-T07home-systems · interactiveBattery runtime calculator
Portable battery cutaway showing stored energy, conversion loss, reserve, cycling loads, and a runtime path

Estimate portable-power runtime from rated watt-hours, conversion efficiency, reserve, load, and duty cycle.

02

Consumer Tech

5 tools
CT-T01consumer-tech · interactiveWi-Fi symptom diagnosis
Miniature apartment with a central router and translucent signal rings passing through rooms

Separate device, coverage, congestion, visibility, and upstream internet patterns with controlled follow-up tests.

CT-T02consumer-tech · interactiveBandwidth and download-time calculator
Cobalt data blocks moving through a narrow transparent network conduit beside a stopwatch

Convert file units and Mbps into a transparent download estimate with an explicit effective-rate assumption.

CT-T03consumer-tech · interactiveStorage capacity planner
Memory card feeding growing data blocks into primary and mirrored backup drive stacks

Plan working photo and video data, independent copies, and headroom without hiding file-size assumptions.

CT-T04consumer-tech · interactiveFile transfer time calculator
Two external drives joined by a data bridge with moving blocks and a stopwatch

Estimate copy time from decimal file size and observed sustained throughput rather than interface marketing speed.

CT-T05consumer-tech · interactiveMonitor PPI calculator
Monitor, diagonal measure, and magnifying lens revealing the physical RGB pixel matrix

Calculate pixel density, physical panel dimensions, and pixels per degree from resolution, size, and viewing distance.

03

Photography

2 tools
TL-0001photography · interactiveExposure simulator
Camera surrounded by a mechanical aperture, shutter assembly, exposure cards, and linked control rings

Balance aperture, shutter speed, and ISO while seeing how each choice changes depth, motion, and noise.

TL-0002photography · interactiveLightroom vs Capture One decision tool
Two photography workflow trays balanced by catalog, tethering, mobile, layer, and cost weights

Weight cataloging, tethering, layers, mobile access, and cost to find the editor that fits your workflow.

04

AI Workflows

2 tools
AI-T01ai-workflows · interactiveAI Task Brief Builder
Loose paper notes organized into a structured brief with cobalt and lime tabs

Turn your goal, scope, and acceptance criteria into a clear Markdown task brief locally in your browser.

AI-T02ai-workflows · interactiveAgent Instructions Builder
One project folder branching into two paper instruction booklets

Draft AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md from the project facts and boundaries you supply, without inventing commands.

05

Everyday Calculators

21 tools
EV-T01everyday · interactivePercentage calculator
A precise grid of cobalt and white tokens showing a part-to-whole proportion

Calculate a percentage, the share of a whole, or the signed percentage change between two values.

EV-T02everyday · interactiveDiscount calculator
Retail object moving through price tag, discount token, tax receipt, and checkout tray

Find the discount amount, sale price, optional sales tax, and final price before checkout.

EV-T03everyday · interactiveTip and bill split calculator
Restaurant bill, tip tray, coins, and two equal diner shares arranged on a table

Calculate a tip, total bill, and equal per-person share without losing cents to guesswork.

EV-T04everyday · interactiveDate duration calculator
Two calendar blocks connected by a measured ribbon of individual daily markers

Count elapsed calendar days and weeks between two dates without daylight-saving-time drift.

EV-T05everyday · interactiveUnit converter
Tape measure, wood ruler, and caliper aligned to the same physical length

Convert common length, mass, volume, and temperature units through transparent SI-based formulas.

EV-T06everyday · interactiveLoan payment calculator
Miniature house, principal tokens, interest dial, and repeating monthly payment envelopes

Estimate fixed monthly principal-and-interest payments, total repayment, and total interest.

EV-T07everyday · interactiveCompound interest calculator
Regular contributions building an accelerating staircase of transparent growth blocks

Model hypothetical compound growth with a starting amount and monthly contributions.

EV-T08everyday · interactiveFuel cost calculator
Miniature car following a measured road through a fuel vessel and gauge to payment tokens

Estimate trip fuel use and cost with either MPG or litres per 100 kilometres.

EV-T09everyday · interactiveAge calculator
Birth keepsake box connected to a long life timeline ending at a present-day marker

Calculate completed years, months, days, and total elapsed days on a chosen date.

EV-T10everyday · interactiveSales tax calculator
Subtotal tokens passing through a tax-rate dial into a final checkout tray

Add a known sales-tax rate and separate the pre-tax price, tax amount, and checkout total.

EV-T11everyday · interactiveHourly to salary calculator
Time clock and hourly tokens accumulating into weekly and annual stacks

Convert an hourly rate into weekly, monthly, and annual gross pay using explicit schedule assumptions.

EV-T12everyday · interactiveGPA calculator
Course folders of different thickness balanced with weights into one combined result

Calculate a credit-weighted grade point average using the scale supplied by your school.

EV-T13everyday · interactiveRecipe scaler
Original and target place settings with measuring cups and proportionally scaled ingredients

Resize an ingredient amount from the original yield to a new number of servings.

EV-T14everyday · interactiveBMI calculator
Wooden height ruler beside a weight scale with a large blank cobalt screening dial and small green tokens

Screen adult body mass index in US or metric units with visible CDC category boundaries.

EV-T15everyday · interactiveHours worked calculator
Cream punch clock, blank time card, one set-aside break token, and an ascending staircase of cobalt hour blocks

Count hours between a start and end time, subtract unpaid breaks, and get payroll-ready decimal hours.

EV-T16everyday · interactiveMortgage payment calculator
Miniature house beside trays holding cobalt coin stacks, a metal dial, documents, a green envelope, and a picket-fence piece

Estimate a monthly mortgage payment with principal, interest, property tax, insurance, and HOA dues shown separately.

EV-T17everyday · interactiveFinal grade calculator
Open ruled ledger, a brass balance weighing an exam paper against cobalt weight discs, and a marked target column

Find the score you need on a weighted final exam to reach your target course grade.

EV-T18everyday · interactiveTime calculator
Row of small clock faces feeding cobalt minute tokens into one combined total block

Add hours and minutes across up to four entries and convert the total into decimal hours.

EV-T19everyday · interactiveSleep calculator
Bedside alarm clock with a row of crescent cycle tokens counting backward toward a marked bedtime

Work backward from a wake-up time in 90-minute sleep cycles to compare candidate bedtimes.

EV-T20everyday · interactiveSquare footage calculator
Tape measure stretched across a wooden floor plank with white, cobalt, and green measured tile squares

Calculate the area of a rectangle, circle, or triangle in feet and turn it into a material cost.

EV-T21everyday · interactiveCalorie calculator
Kitchen scale weighing an apple beside empty plates and an ascending stack of cobalt energy blocks

Estimate resting and total daily calorie needs with the Mifflin-St Jeor equation and explicit activity factors.

13 GUIDESEvergreen explainers

Read the method.
Then use the tool.

Search-led reference pages explain the boundary conditions, examples, and source trail behind the calculation.

EV-G01How age is calculated

Understand calendar age, completed years, leap days, and why age in total days is a different answer.

EV-G02How sales tax changes a price

Learn the sales-tax formula, combined local rates, and the difference between tax-exclusive and tax-inclusive prices.

EV-G03Hourly pay to annual salary

Convert hourly pay to weekly, monthly, and annual gross pay while keeping hours and paid weeks visible.

EV-G04How GPA is calculated

Understand credit-weighted grade points, unweighted and weighted scales, and why school rules must be checked.

EV-G05Cooking measurement conversions

Use a compact U.S. volume chart, understand why weight is more reliable, and scale recipe quantities safely.

EV-G06How BMI is calculated

Learn the BMI formula in US and metric units, the CDC adult screening ranges, and what the number can and cannot tell you.

EV-G07How to count hours worked

Turn start times, end times, breaks, and overnight shifts into payroll hours and understand why timesheets use decimal hours.

EV-G08What is in a mortgage payment

See how principal, interest, property tax, insurance, and HOA dues combine into a monthly payment, and which parts a calculator can honestly estimate.

EV-G09Final grade math

Understand weighted averages, solve for the final-exam score you need, and read a syllabus weighting scheme correctly.

EV-G10Adding hours and minutes

Add time values correctly with base-60 carrying, convert totals to decimal hours, and avoid the classic timesheet mistakes.

EV-G11Sleep cycles and bedtime math

Understand the 90-minute sleep cycle average, how bedtime calculators count backward, and what the arithmetic can and cannot promise.

EV-G12How to measure square footage

Measure rooms accurately, break irregular floor plans into simple shapes, and turn area into a realistic material estimate.

EV-G13How calorie needs are estimated

See what the Mifflin-St Jeor equation actually models, how activity factors scale resting energy, and where the estimate stops being useful.