Plan is the control room. It answers one question at five zoom levels: what am I doing — today, this week, this month, this quarter, this year?
The default view is today: a short list of concrete actions, a progress bar, and the day's journal beside it. Things land on today four ways:
- You add one directly — "Add something for today…": a title, optionally a date (plant a task on any future day — a birthday, a deadline), a priority star, a small note. If you give it a repeat instead, it becomes a routine and files itself under a life area of your choice.
- A repeat puts it there — anything with a schedule (every day, weekdays, Mon/Wed/Fri, 4× a week, monthly) appears on its days automatically. This is the "set it once, never think again" path.
- You break a piece off a goal — on any goal's page, "break off a piece" creates a small task linked to that goal, for today, tomorrow, or any day you pick — lay a week of chapters out in one sitting, or pull next week's forward when today has slack. For metered goals (counters, books) you say how much the piece is worth — "Read 2 chapters" moves the meter by 2 when done, and 0 is a real choice: "clone the repo" adds no PRs to a PR goal, but it moves you in the direction, and it still lives under the goal. The same link is available from "Add something for today…" via Counts toward a goal, and on Today the piece names its goal ("↳ finish part 2…") so you always know whose little part it is.
- A goal is marked for today — setting a thing's planning horizon to Today keeps it on the list until you complete it.
- Square checkbox — one-time thing; checking completes it (and the goal it belongs to, when it was the goal's last open piece).
- Round checkbox — a repeat; checking logs today and feeds the streak. Tomorrow it returns. See The completion rule.
- ⭐ — priority. +2 chapters — how much this task moves its goal's meter. "3 steps · 25 min" — a routine wearing its script's total length ("1/3 steps" once you're mid-way); its timer runs the steps one at a time, in order. Routines with set hours only appear inside them — before then they wait under a quiet "Out of hours" line. "carried from Mon" — an unfinished task following you, without shame, until done. Finishing it on a later day keeps the record honest ("done Wed" shows on its planned day).
- The little icons: open the linked goal, plan what a habit means today ("clean" → "clean desk"), edit, focus timer, remove.
Completing a task never reshuffles the list — rows move only when you drag them or use Sort (unfinished first, custom order, hide completed).
The timer icon on any row opens a full-screen timer for that one task — for when starting is the hard part. Finish, check it off from inside, move to the next.
The tabs across the top hold standing lists for each period, navigable like a calendar (July, August… 2026, 2027…). Anything whose planning horizon is "this week" appears in that specific week's list, with its progress and a → Today button.
→ Today doesn't move the goal out of its list — it lends it to today. The goal appears on Today so you can act on it, and it stays right where it was in the week/month/quarter/year list. The button becomes ↩ Recall while it's out on loan. Because it's one and the same goal, checking it off in either place marks it done in both, and it keeps its spot in the period list as done — so a month's list is also the record of which monthly goals you actually reached.
Unfinished goals carry forward. A monthly goal you didn't reach in July shows up in August's list too, marked "carried from July", exactly like an unfinished task follows you to the next day. It also stays visible in July, still open, so looking back stays honest. The same holds for weeks, quarters and years. A goal you did finish stays put in the period it belonged to.
These lists are the planning layer: on Sunday, look at the week list; each morning, pull from it. Nothing here nags — it waits.
The week strip and Yesterday / Today / Tomorrow jumps let you look back (what did Tuesday look like?) or plan ahead (load Saturday with errands). Only the real today shows carried-over tasks; other days show just what belongs to them.
The right side of today (below, on a phone) is the daily journal: a "thinking about…" box for the morning, an end-of-day reflection, mood and energy. It lives here, not in a separate app section, because closing the day is part of the day. Reflect (next chapters) is built from what you write here.