How-Tos

Practical guides for common myDailyTasks workflows.

Start with one task, then explore planning, tracking and the controls that fit your devices.

42 guides

Getting Started

Plan a day

iPhone · iPad · Mac

Build a practical plan for the selected day without losing unfinished work.

Read: Plan a day

Manage Premium

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Check your Premium status, restore a previous purchase, or manage your subscription.

Read: Manage Premium

Planning

Use Daily Planner

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Place open activities, appointments, and tasks from tags associated with Work onto a concrete timeline for the selected day.

Read: Use Daily Planner

Plan appointments and travel

iPhone · iPad · Mac

Reserve the meeting and journey time while keeping appointments separate from your to-do list.

Read: Plan appointments and travel

Create a ritual

iPhone · iPad · Mac

Set up a repeated routine that schedules dated tasks into the planner.

Read: Create a ritual

Configure reminders

iPhone · iPad · Mac

Use daily summaries, task-time reminders, and important-date reminders intentionally.

Read: Configure reminders

Tune automatic carryover

iPhone · iPad · Mac

Control how unfinished tasks move forward after your chosen carryover time.

Read: Tune automatic carryover

Set up subjects and coursework

iPhone · iPad · Mac · Apple Watch

Create a subject and save your first coursework task with its own work date and deadline.

Read: Set up subjects and coursework

Doing & Tracking

Use Smart Lists

iPhone · iPad · Mac

Move between common planning contexts without building custom filters each time.

Read: Use Smart Lists

Find a task across dates

iPhone · iPad · Mac · Apple Watch

Locate current or retained completed work without changing it.

Read: Find a task across dates

Review

Review your week

iPhone · iPad · Mac

Use Weekly Review to understand completion, balance, streaks, carryover, and open work.

Read: Review your week

Apple Devices

Focus and restart on Apple Watch

Apple Watch

Start a small focus session, take a break and return to interrupted work without changing completion or billing.

Read: Focus and restart on Apple Watch

Create a myDailyTasks shortcut

iPhone · iPad · Mac

Save a reusable task action in Apple’s Shortcuts app, then run it by tapping or asking Siri.

Read: Create a myDailyTasks shortcut

Set a Focus filter

iPhone · iPad · Mac

Use Apple Focus to choose which task states are visible in myDailyTasks.

Read: Set a Focus filter

Data & Privacy

Customise settings

iPhone · iPad · Mac

Set up myDailyTasks defaults so capture, planning, review, and privacy controls match the way you work.

Read: Customise settings

Set up App Lock

iPhone · iPad · Mac

Require biometric verification before showing task data.

Read: Set up App Lock

Import tasks from a CSV file

iPhone · iPad · Mac

Add multiple new tasks from a reviewed CSV file without changing or replacing existing tasks.

Read: Import tasks from a CSV file

Reset settings or delete all data

iPhone · iPad · Mac

Choose the correct data-management boundary before resetting preferences or permanently deleting planner data.

Read: Reset settings or delete all data