Explore the optional Sample Planner
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Try a small set of examples, then keep them as your own or remove them together.
Read: Explore the optional Sample PlannerHow-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
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Build a practical plan for the selected day without losing unfinished work.
Read: Plan a dayManage Premium
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Check your Premium status, restore a previous purchase, or manage your subscription.
Read: Manage PremiumPlanning
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 PlannerPlan around your calendars
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See selected commitments and review how tasks fit around them.
Read: Plan around your calendarsPlan appointments and travel
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Reserve the meeting and journey time while keeping appointments separate from your to-do list.
Read: Plan appointments and travelPopulate, plan and review your day
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Fit flexible work into available time and review adjustments when the day changes.
Read: Populate, plan and review your dayPrepare and follow up around a calendar event
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Create or position planner work around a read-only calendar commitment, then review later event changes.
Read: Prepare and follow up around a calendar eventCreate a ritual
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Set up a repeated routine that schedules dated tasks into the planner.
Read: Create a ritualSet up optional health Ritual connections
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Keep a planning checklist connected to myHealthRoutine only when you choose.
Read: Set up optional health Ritual connectionsSet important dates and away periods
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Keep important dates visible and let recurring planning account for time away.
Read: Set important dates and away periodsConfigure reminders
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Use daily summaries, task-time reminders, and important-date reminders intentionally.
Read: Configure remindersTune automatic carryover
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Control how unfinished tasks move forward after your chosen carryover time.
Read: Tune automatic carryoverSet up subjects and coursework
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Create a subject and save your first coursework task with its own work date and deadline.
Read: Set up subjects and courseworkSubmit coursework, record results and plan revision
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Keep submission, grades and follow-up study as separate decisions.
Read: Submit coursework, record results and plan revisionChoose weather for Daily Planner
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See weather for an explicitly chosen location and keep it separate from Pollen Alerts.
Read: Choose weather for Daily PlannerSet up high-pollen day reminders
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Set up Pollen Alerts with your chosen area and understand its daily reminder behaviour.
Read: Set up high-pollen day remindersDoing & Tracking
Add a task with natural-language shorthand
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Capture a task quickly while detecting date, time, priority, and tag details.
Read: Add a task with natural-language shorthandEdit, repeat and organise tasks
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Keep one accurate task record, with the right schedule, organisation and visibility.
Read: Edit, repeat and organise tasksUse Smart Lists
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Move between common planning contexts without building custom filters each time.
Read: Use Smart ListsFind a task across dates
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Locate current or retained completed work without changing it.
Read: Find a task across datesOrganise tasks by client and project
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Group work without duplicating tasks.
Read: Organise tasks by client and projectTrack time and export a timesheet
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Keep actual work time separate from your planned schedule.
Read: Track time and export a timesheetReview
Review your week
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Use Weekly Review to understand completion, balance, streaks, carryover, and open work.
Read: Review your weekApple Devices
Add the Today complication
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Install the Watch app, then add Today's Tasks to a compatible watch face.
Read: Add the Today complicationCapture and manage tasks on Apple Watch
Apple Watch
Use the Watch dashboard for capture, completion, search, projects, Rituals and calendar commitments.
Read: Capture and manage tasks on Apple WatchFocus 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 WatchRecord task time on Apple Watch
Apple Watch
Record task time from the Watch app or its complication, even when you leave the app.
Read: Record task time on Apple WatchSet gentle Watch transition reminders
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Choose when the Watch prompts you to start timed work and how much information it shows.
Read: Set gentle Watch transition remindersSet up Watch controls, Action button and Double Tap
Apple Watch
Open Capture Task, Focus Session or Task Timer from supported system controls.
Read: Set up Watch controls, Action button and Double TapSimplify the Watch and set up Next Action
Apple Watch
Choose one task, readable text and useful Smart Stack information without changing planner data.
Read: Simplify the Watch and set up Next ActionUse Siri, Shortcuts, widgets and Apple device integration
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Reach the right task through the system tools available on your device.
Read: Use Siri, Shortcuts, widgets and Apple device integrationUse Siri with myDailyTasks
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Open your planner or capture a task with the app’s supported voice commands.
Read: Use Siri with myDailyTasksCreate a myDailyTasks shortcut
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Save a reusable task action in Apple’s Shortcuts app, then run it by tapping or asking Siri.
Read: Create a myDailyTasks shortcutSet a Focus filter
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Use Apple Focus to choose which task states are visible in myDailyTasks.
Read: Set a Focus filterData & Privacy
Customise settings
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Set up myDailyTasks defaults so capture, planning, review, and privacy controls match the way you work.
Read: Customise settingsSet up App Lock
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Require biometric verification before showing task data.
Read: Set up App LockManage privacy and sync
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Control local content, iCloud sync, and privacy choices.
Read: Manage privacy and syncUnderstand backups, recovery and restore
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Know what can be exported today, how recovery differs from sync, and which restore controls are not yet available.
Read: Understand backups, recovery and restoreImport tasks from a CSV file
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Add multiple new tasks from a reviewed CSV file without changing or replacing existing tasks.
Read: Import tasks from a CSV fileImport bill reminders from myBudgetCanvas
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Review a selected file before turning bill reminders into planner tasks.
Read: Import bill reminders from myBudgetCanvasReset settings or delete all data
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Choose the correct data-management boundary before resetting preferences or permanently deleting planner data.
Read: Reset settings or delete all data