DailyBalance is…
The easiest way to make planning your day part of your morning routine
DailyBalance’s core belief:
There are two key habits that will help you feel on top of everything in your life…
#1: Plan your day, every day.
This is the key to getting (and keeping) that “in control” feeling. Plan your day before you engage and you’ll be confident and focused.
#2: Keep all your “things to do” organized in one place
It’s difficult to plan your day when you have tasks and projects scattered over to-do lists, sticky notes, apps, etc. Having a master list allows you quickly plan your day and be confident in your plan.
DailyBalance gives you a Day Planner & a Master List in a single easy to use app.
Plan your day by choosing the subset of tasks you’ll work on from your Master List
Plan your day by choosing the subset of tasks you’ll work on from your Master List
Plan your day by choosing the subset of tasks you’ll work on from your Master List
DailyBalance is simple to use, but it is robust behind the scenes.
It is a native app for iOS, macOS and Windows. And its cloud architecture automatically backs up and syncs your data across all your devices.
DailyBalance is designed to give you a framework for implementing productive habits.
There’s a lot of good productivity advice out there, but you need a framework to build habits and routines on. It’s hard to develop good habits without an overall system to fit them into. DailyBalance is aimed at helping you develop good habits over time. These are some of the habits we try to encourage…
First, master the two key habits for keeping that “in control” feeling:
Plan every day.
Making a plan for the day before you engage will help you keep on track and stay focused. DailyBalance makes it easy to incorporate a planning step into your daily routine. Learn about daily planning…
Keep everything in one place.
A master list of all the things you want to get done will help you nail the daily planning habit and give you peace of mind. Learn more about the Master List…
Then, develop more good habits over time:
Automate recurring & future tasks.
Trying to remember to do something every Tuesday is a waste of brain power. DailyBalance handles these for you by making them part of your daily planning process. Learn about Triggers for recurring and one-time tasks…
Capture new to-dos without getting distracted.
New things popping up can be a big source of distraction… You don’t want to forget about them, so it’s tempting to jump into them immediately. With the daily planning habit in place, you can capture new things when they popup and be confident that you’ll see them tomorrow when you go to plan your day. Learn more about quick capture features…
Manage your time in the way that works for you.
There are a lot of ideas out there about how to manage your time. Time-Boxing and Eat The Frog are great approaches once you have a daily planning routine. The Day Planner can be customized with popular strategies or customized to your needs.
Break tasks down to actionable steps.
A lot of things on your to-do list may be rough ideas that need thought. DailyBalance encourages you to break these things down into steps. Defining at least the first step can be a huge help in moving something toward done. Learn more about sub-tasks...
Get everything out of your head.
Trying to remember things that you need to do can be a big distraction. Your mind will remind you when you should be focusing on what you’re engaged in. Instead, DailyBalance gives you a system that you can trust. Let it remember for you.
Organize and prioritize your master list.
A huge master list can be paralyzing. The first step in keeping an approachable master list is organizing by the immediacy of the task. DailyBalance gives you folders for This Week, Upcoming, and Someday to help prevent overwhelm. Within those folders, you can prioritize by simply dragging more important items to the top. Learn more about organizing and prioritizing your Master List…
Review weekly.
Having the discipline to review regularly pays off in keeping your Master List organized. And an organized Master List means that daily planning is a snap. If you review weekly and decide what your goals for the week are, planning your days will be easy.
Learn more about doing reviews…
Make a plan, then block everything else out.
DailyBalance is designed so that once you’ve made your plan for the day, you can ignore everything that you decided not to tackle today. You decided up front what you’re going to work on, so don’t get distracted with anything else. This principle is baked in throughout DailyBalance. Learn more about the blocking out habit…
Our core design principle is what makes us different: We believe that you should…
Spend your time working on your tasks, not managing them.
DailyBalance is designed to be as simple as possible. It works the way your brain does and doesn’t add a lot of structure that makes it hard to deal with the changes that life throws your way.
No more trying to fit your life into rigid app concepts.
DailyBalance’s simplicity makes it super flexible. No special concepts for “Lists” and “Projects”. Everything in DailyBalance is a task and can have any level of sub-task. This simple structure can handle organizing in any way that works for you. Learn more…
No more setting fake due dates.
Most task manager apps make you set due dates to have things appear in your “Today” view. Setting due dates on every task isn’t realistic. This ends up with you constantly managing your tasks to edit due dates. Learn more…
Get back to using a simple to-do list to run your day.
Once you’ve decided what you’ll work on for a day, a simple to-do list is all you need to keep on track. Other apps add gimmicks and complexity to try to replace the paper to-do list. DailyBalance is aimed at keeping what works by adding the Master List for everything beyond today and improving on the messiness and inconvenience of paper. Learn more…
No more extraneous fields that add more managing work.
For example, some apps suggest setting priority 1/2/3 levels on your tasks. But, a task is only high priority in relation to other tasks on your plate. If an unexpected urgent project pops up, do you really want to edit the priority level on all your tasks? In DailyBalance, simply order your list by priority and reevaluate as things change. Learn more…
Not team focused, focused on you.
DailyBalance is focused on helping YOU to feel in-control. When task manager apps add team features, they get more complicated. You may still need a team system to manage group projects. But, once something is assigned to you, you need to manage getting it done in a way that works for you — alongside everything else in your life. Learn more…
DailyBalance is still a work in progress…
As it is, DB gives you a system/framework.
We are committed to building on this framework. More to come…