Plan your day

What is daily planning?

Daily planning is a guided flow that helps you decide what to focus on each day. You choose which tasks to tackle, assign them to time-of-day slots, and optionally highlight the single most important task. It turns a long task list into a focused, manageable plan.

How to plan your day

1. Open the Today tab.
2. Tap Plan your day. From 6:00 PM, on a day that already has tasks, the button just reads Plan.
3. You will see your existing tasks that are due today or already scheduled. You can also browse and add other tasks from your lists.
4. Your tasks are grouped into time-of-day slots. You don't have to put every task in one: a task with no time of day and no reminder that day goes under Any time. To move a task to another slot, long-press and drag it, or tap its Reschedule button. The slots are:
   • Any time — No specific time; just needs doing today.
   • Morning — 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
   • Afternoon — 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
   • Evening — 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
   • Night — 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM.
5. Tap Next to move on to choosing your highlight, then tap Finish.

Adding tasks to your plan

You can add tasks to your plan in several ways:

• Select existing tasks — Tap the + beside a time slot, or Add tasks on an empty day, to open your task list. Tap the + next to a task to include it in your plan. It turns into a tick, and tapping it again takes the task back out. Tapping the task itself opens its details.
• Create a new task — Tap the + beside a time slot, then tap Create new task at the top of the list. The new task is automatically scheduled for that day and time of day. The + only appears on today and future days.

Tasks you add with a time slot's +, whether you pick an existing task or create a new one, are scheduled for that day and time of day. Tasks you add with Add tasks on an empty day are scheduled for the day only, so they appear under Any time.

Highlighting your most important task

Each day, you can mark one task as your highlight — the single most important thing you want to accomplish. Your highlighted task shows a yellow star next to its title in the Today view, and in your lists on the day it is planned for.

To highlight a task, tap Next while planning to reach the Highlight your most important tasks step, then tap the star beside the task. Tap the star again to remove the highlight. If you move a highlighted task to another day, it loses its highlight.

You can only highlight one task per day. If you highlight a different task, the previous one loses its highlight.

Reordering tasks

Long-press a task in the planning view to drag and drop it. You can reorder tasks within a time slot or move them between slots. When you move a task to a different time-of-day slot, its start time is updated automatically.

Daily planning notification

By default, we send you a notification at 8:00 AM each day to remind you to plan your day.

You can turn this notification off in Settings → Notifications settings: switch off Daily planning under Planning.

Planning streaks

Each day you finish planning counts towards your planning streak. We record your streak, and a place to see it in the app is coming.

Weekly planning

With Do Everything PRO, you can also plan your entire week ahead. Weekly planning works the same way as daily planning but lets you schedule tasks across multiple days at once.