Customize Your Daily
Rearrange or hide any section of your day, build multi-column layouts on big screens, save presets, and pick between the Daybook and Broadsheet designs.
Your day page should look like your day. Maybe mornings start with the journal, maybe you never use habits, maybe your iPad wants three columns. The Layout editor makes the Daily tab yours, and it's all synced through iCloud.
The Layout editor
Tap the Customize button at the bottom of the Daily tab. Every section of your day appears with a drag handle and a visibility toggle: Journal, Highlights, Tags, Weather Forecast, All Day, Outstanding, the Agenda (with its Morning, Afternoon, and Evening subsections), To Dos, Reminders, Habits, Task Input, World Clock, Pinned Lists, and Notes. Drag to reorder; tap to show or hide. The right margin has its own toggles for Calendar Bookmarks, the time strip, and event pills.
The Agenda carries its own set of options, opened from its row: Day Sections, Calendar Events, Journal Entries (place journal entries on the timeline, on by default), Countdown Indicator, and the Outstanding lookback window. With Calendar Events on, a Related Entries toggle appears too, which nests a journal entry under the timed event or task it overlaps instead of putting it on the timeline; that one is off by default. See the journal on the Daily tab for how the two differ.
Spreads on iPad and Mac
On a big screen the editor becomes a visual page-plan: a full-width header band, side-by-side columns in the middle, and a full-width footer. Drag sections between columns, and use the arrows to add or remove columns. Journal on the left, agenda in the middle, forecast and clocks on the right, if that's your kind of morning.
Your iPhone and iPad layouts are independent, so a three-column spread on the iPad never squeezes your phone.
Presets
Below the editor sits the preset shelf, with Default (the out-of-the-box layout) and your own saved arrangements. Save the current layout with the dashed + slot and give it a name; long-press a saved preset to delete it.
Presets carry section behavior along with the layout: the To Dos item limit, day sections, and the Reminders and Habits "Include Scheduled" options are saved into your presets and restored when you apply one. Whenever you switch presets, your outgoing setup is kept as a Previous card in the shelf, so trying a different arrangement is never a one-way door.
A limit on the day's tasks
If you like planning a short, honest list (six things, in the spirit of the Ivy Lee method, or a top three), give the To Dos section an item limit. In the Layout editor, tap the To Dos section's option and pick a limit; the Tasks header then shows a running tally like "4 / 6". The tally counts whatever is on that list, checked off or not: your tasks, and any reminders or habits that appear there when they don't have sections of their own.
Finalist never blocks you from adding more: anything past the limit tucks itself below the fold, and the note at the end of the list counts what's waiting. Tap the note to peek below the fold, and tap it again to close. To trade a task out of today's page, drag it just below the note: it moves to the back of the queue and the next waiting item takes its place. Punting or deleting a visible task surfaces the next one too. Checked-off tasks keep their place on the page, so the limit still means six planned, not six left.
Two designs: Daybook and Broadsheet
The Daily tab has two looks, switchable from the Customize shelf or in Settings under Appearance:
- Daybook is the classic Finalist: stacked sections with the notebook margin rule. Your everyday planner.
- Broadsheet sets your day like a newspaper: a masthead, horizontal rules, condensed type, and its own multi-column spread. It really shines on iPad and Mac, where the typography gets room to breathe.
Same day, same data, different paper.
Your hours, your segments
Morning doesn't start at 6am for everyone. With day segments on, you can set your own Morning, Afternoon, and Evening start times, in the Layout editor or in Settings under Calendar & Events.
Each segment header also carries a weather forecast and an Add button for quick task entry at that time of day. Prefer plain headers? Turn off "Show Weather and Add button for each day section" in Settings under Calendar & Events.
Related: Your Daily Page · World Clock · Calendar Bookmarks