Guides and FAQ

Read onboarding, five-element basics, color categories, and Manifest OOTD FAQ.

• Getting Started with Manifest OOTD - Your first three days on Manifest OOTD: what to do, what to expect, and how to read your first outfit.
• How to Read Your Daily OOTD - Three layers of information in every daily card: lucky color, energy reading, and outfit. Here is how to use each.
• Wardrobe Setup: Building a Useful Catalog - How to photograph, categorise and prune your wardrobe so Manifest OOTD makes recommendations you actually wear.
• Five Elements 101 - A plain-English introduction to WuXing — what it is, where it comes from, and why it powers Manifest OOTD.
• Color Categories: How We Map Color to Element - A reference guide for how Manifest OOTD assigns each color to one of the five elements.
• Frequently Asked Questions - Answers to the questions we get most often about accounts, recommendations, privacy, and the WuXing system.
• Wu Xing vs Zodiac: Two Lucky-Color Systems Compared - How daily lucky colors differ between the Chinese Five Elements and Western Zodiac systems — and how to combine both for a daily OOTD that works across cultures.