DailyBalance is about helping you plan your days. Planning your work for the day requires that you review all of the things that you could spend time on and select a subset to focus on today. This is a lot easier if you have all of your “stuff to do” gathered in one place.
If you have reminders, to-dos, and projects spread out over old to-do lists, sticky notes, in emails, etc., planning your day is difficult and time consuming. And, you might be less confident in the plan with worries that you’re forgetting something. This leads to feeling scattered and unfocused.
Striving to keep a master list of all the things that demand your attention isn’t easy. There are so many places that to-dos enter your life that it’s hard to stay on top. But, it is a habit that you can get better at over time if you have a tool that makes it easy.
ENTER THE MASTER LIST
DailyBalance’s Master List aims to be that one place for you to collect all the to-dos and projects on your plate. The Master List is a simple solution for storing anything from a simple errand to a multi-step project. It is designed to be simple so that you can capture new things without a lot of thinking. But, its tree structure allows you to break tasks down to any level of sub-tasks – so it’s capable of holding your multi-step projects.
A LITTLE BIT OF STRUCTURE
The Master List has just a little bit of structure in some preset folders. The Inbox is a special folder where new things go by default. The Triggers folder is where recurring tasks live. The remaining three folders (This Week, Upcoming, and Someday) help to organize your Master List based on urgency. These help to prevent your Master List from becoming unwieldy and intimidating.
HOME & WORK
The Master List is divided into major life areas that we call Domains. Domains allow the Master List to track home and work tasks in the same app while keeping them separated. Tasks from different Domains can be mixed in the Day Planner. So, when planning a “work day”, you might have both Home and Work tasks intermixed. The tasks for in each Domain are color coded so that can easily tell them apart.
The two default Domains are named Home and Work. These can be renamed if you like – for example a student might want to have a Domain named “School”.