Tips

Launch — Title and Begin button

Content — Scrollable rich text

Bottom — Helpfulness prompt and Mark Complete

Tips are educational or motivational content items that appear in the Learn tab. They support rich content including text, images, videos, and interactive elements.

ActivitySpec: lamp.tips

Configuration

1. Log in to the dashboard and navigate to the Activities tab.
2. Click + Add and select Tips.
3. Select the group you wish to add the tip to.
4. Enter a title. Optionally add a link and author.
5. Press the (+) icon to add content items (text, images, media).

Content Formatting

Tips support Markdown-formatted text, including:

• Headings — #, ##, ###
• Bold and italic — **bold** and *italic*
• Lists — Ordered and unordered
• Links — [link text](url)
• Images — ![alt text](url) or inline HTML. Upload directly (up to 4 MB, PNG/SVG/JPEG) or embed as base64 data URIs.
• Tables — Standard Markdown table syntax
• Embedded video — YouTube via <iframe>
• Expandable sections — <details> and <summary> tags

Embedding Video

<iframe width="400" height="300"
  src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID"
  frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Multiple Tip Items

A single tip can contain multiple content items. Press the (+) icon to add additional items — all items appear on a single scrollable page. To present tips in a multi-step sequence, use an Activity Group to bundle multiple tips together.

Use Cases

• General health education (physical wellness, sleep hygiene, mental health literacy)
• Skill-building resources for therapy techniques
• Individualized content for a specific participant's needs
• Embedded video tutorials or guided exercises
• Links to external resources and reading materials

Real-World Examples

Tips with embedded video — The Social Media study's Sleep Module activity group includes multiple tips with embedded YouTube videos. Each tip has a video player, explanatory text, a helpfulness prompt, and a Mark Complete button.

Tip 1 — Introduction video about social media and sleep

Tip 2 — Follow-up video on nighttime routines

Tips with embedded images — momLAMP's "Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors" tip combines text and inline images to illustrate CBT concepts.

Usage

After viewing a tip, participants see a "Was this helpful today?" prompt with thumbs up ("Yes") and thumbs down ("No") buttons, followed by a "Mark complete" button.

Tapping "Mark complete" records the response. If the participant taps "Mark complete" without explicitly selecting a thumb, the response defaults to "Yes".

Data

Field	Value
static_data.sentiment	"Yes" (helpful) or "No" (not helpful). Defaults to "Yes" if no selection made.
duration	Time spent viewing the tip in milliseconds
temporal_slices	Always an empty array

Example

{
  "timestamp": 1649859300000,
  "activity": "tip_activity_id",
  "duration": 15000,
  "static_data": {
    "sentiment": "Yes"
  },
  "temporal_slices": []
}

Cortex Features

No Cortex features currently process Tips data.

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