Day to Day
Planner
A short list of actionable steps for the day — a direction to follow, not a full slate of scoped commitments — checked off as you go, with an optional focus timer and colour-coded labels. And one rule that makes it kind: unfinished tasks never chase you.
The idea
The Planner is your daily to-do list — best read as a handful of actionable steps for the day, a direction to point yourself in rather than the fully-scoped plan of everything you're committed to. Each task belongs to exactly one date. Add tasks in the morning — or, if you prefer a head start, write tomorrow's list the night before. Both rhythms work; neither is required.
What makes it different is what it doesn't do. Unfinished tasks simply stay in their day. There is no rollover and no overdue pile — the past is a record, not debt. Yesterday's undone tasks appear dimmed, never red, and nothing nags you about them. If an old task still matters, you move it forward yourself.
Where it lives
The Planner has three homes. You do in the Log, you read on the Planner page, and you can optionally pin today's list everywhere:
The Daily Log
The Planner section of the Log page is where everything happens — adding, checking off, labels, timers, and browsing any other day.
Planner page
A read-only report: your follow-through, day streak, focused-time chart and a month-by-month log of every planned day.
Floating dock
Optional. Pins Today's tasks to the corner of every page so you can check things off from anywhere in the app.
Planning your day
In the Log's Planner section, add tasks under Today and check them off as you go — completion is the only action that celebrates. A day holds at most 20 tasks — a focus list, not a backlog. The Plan tomorrow composer works the same way, so tomorrow's list is waiting when you wake up; it shows only while you're viewing today.
Setting up a list counts even if you don't finish it. The Planner page's Day Streak measures consecutive days you showed up with a plan — often the hardest part — not days you completed everything.
What each list lets you do
Task rows deliberately offer different controls depending on which list they sit in — a task can't be completed before its day arrives, and a stopwatch only makes sense on the live day:
| Action | Today | Plan tomorrow | Selected day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Check off / uncheck | Yes | — | Yes |
| Edit text (tap the task) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Label (tap the tag or pill) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Focus timer | Yes | — | — |
| Move to another day | Yes | — | Yes |
| Reorder (drag the grip) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Delete (inside the edit dialog) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Tomorrow's rows have no Move to another day button. To move a task you planned for tomorrow onto a different day, step Selected day to tomorrow and use the move button there.
Selected day — any day, past or future
The Planner section leads with Selected day — a surface that shows whichever day the strip above it points at, starting on today. Step through days with the previous/next arrows, or jump anywhere with Pick date (a clay dot marks days that already have tasks). On whichever day you land, you have full control: add, rename, check, reorder, label, delete, or Move a task to another day.
This is also how an old task that still matters comes forward: find it in its day and move it to today — deliberately, rather than automatically.
Labels — where your focus goes
Each task can carry one label: a small colour-coded context like Work, Home or Health, set from the tag icon on any task.
- You can keep up to 11 labels. Create and edit them from Manage labels inside the picker — each has a name and an optional colour from a ten-hue palette.
- Deleting a label never touches your tasks — they stay put and simply lose the tag.
- Labels earn their keep on the Planner page: focus-timer minutes group by label under Stats — a quiet answer to "what actually gets my hours?"
The focus timer
Every open task on today's list carries a small stopwatch. Tap play when you start working, pause when you stop — the banked time (say, 45m) appears on the row. Starting is silent; pausing confirms with Time saved.
- One timer at a time. Starting a second timer banks whatever was running first.
- It survives navigation. Leave the page, close the tab, come back — a running timer keeps counting.
- Overnight protection. A forgotten timer is capped at the end of its task's day, so a night's sleep never logs as focus.
- Finish and bank in one tap. Completing a task whose timer is running saves the time as part of the same action.
- Corrections are easy. Tap the saved time to edit it by hand — plain numbers are minutes, or use 1h 30m, 45m, 90s, or the clock form 1:30.
- Optional. Not a stopwatch person? Turn it off under Planner in My Profile → Module Visibility (Focus timer) — every play button and time readout disappears, but time you already recorded stays saved and returns if you switch it back on.
The floating dock
Flip on Pin tasks to every page under Planner in My Profile → Module Visibility and a small Planner widget follows you to the bottom-right corner of every page — today's tasks with check-off, reorder and timer controls, plus a done count. It collapses to a round button showing how many tasks remain, stays in sync with the Log live, and the preference follows you across devices. Tapping a task's text opens the same Edit task dialog as in the Log.
Reading the Planner page
The Planner page in Reports is where the pattern becomes visible:
| Card | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Tasks Done | Total completed this year, across all planned days — with your Day Streak of consecutive days keeping a list. |
| Follow-Through | The share of elapsed tasks you finished. Tinted green from 60% up — and never red, because an unfinished plan is information, not failure. |
| Typical Day | Your median number of tasks per planned day. |
| Days Planned | How many days this year got a list. |
| Biggest Day | Your record: the most tasks completed on a single day. |
| Daily Log | A month-by-month browse of every planned day — each task with its check mark, label pill and focus time. |
The Planner is scoped to your working year. When you're viewing a past year there is no "today" — the live Today and Plan-tomorrow lists step aside, and you browse and edit that year's days entirely through Selected day. The floating dock only appears in the current calendar year.