Your Daily Page

The Daily tab is your digital day page. It pulls together everything one day needs: calendar events (yours or shared), reminders and tasks due that day, the weather forecast, habits you're keeping up, and a snippet of today's journal entry at the top for inspiration.

Flipping pages

Swipe left to see tomorrow, swipe right to revisit yesterday. It's as intuitive as flipping pages in a physical planner. Each day stands alone, complete and contained.

Today's page has a few super-powers the other pages don't: it can hide expired tasks and events, and it shows any pinned lists you need to keep top of mind.

If you tend to plan a few days out, turn on Show relative dates on Daily in Settings under General. Any page that isn't today then shows how far off it is (a small "+1" for tomorrow, "-3" for three days back) next to the date, so you always know where you are without doing the arithmetic. It works in both the Daybook and Broadsheet designs.

The Today button

Lost in future planning? When you navigate away from today, the Daily tab turns into a Today button. Tap it to snap back to the present.

The monthly sheet

Need context? Tap the date at the top to peek at your month, like lifting a corner of next month's pages. You can preview what's coming without losing focus on today, and tap any distant date to jump straight to it.

Catch-up: handling unfinished tasks

Yesterday's unfinished tasks appear as a count at the top of today, clearly marked. Nothing is moved automatically. You decide: do them now, reschedule them, or let them go. Think of it as a reality check, not a failure report. Each uncompleted task is simply information about your capacity and priorities.

Times in the margin

Scheduled items show their start time in the page's left margin, like the hours column of a paper planner, so you can scan your day down the edge of the page. When an event or task has a duration, a small caption after its title shows how long it runs. Rows that share a start time only print it once.

If you prefer the earlier look, with the checkbox in the margin and the time in a caption under the title, turn off Show task times in Daybook margin in Settings under Calendar & Events.

Reminders and habits in their own sections

By default, the reminders and habits due today sit in the day's main list alongside your tasks. If you'd rather see them grouped on their own, open Customize (the button at the bottom of the Daily tab) and switch on the Reminders and Habits sections. Each one lifts that kind out of the main list into its own labeled section, so your to-dos, your Apple Reminders, and your habit check-ins each get their own space.

Each section starts with only the untimed items: the reminders and habits you keep at no particular hour. Anything with a scheduled time stays on the timeline where it belongs, next to the events and tasks happening around it, so a habit you've pinned to 8am still reads on the clock rather than in the section. If you'd rather gather the timed ones in the section too, each section has an Include Scheduled option in Customize (its label reads "Unscheduled" or "All"): switch it on to pull the timed reminders or habits down from the timeline into the section.

Both sections are collapsible: tap the header, which shows a count, to fold one away when you don't need it. They work in both the Daybook and Broadsheet designs, and they stay off until you turn them on, so nothing about your current layout changes unless you want it to.

Sections that keep their place

A section you've turned on holds its spot even on an empty day. Scheduled, Tasks, and (when you use them) the Reminders and Habits sections each show their header over a quiet "Nothing for today" line rather than disappearing, so your day keeps the same shape from morning to night and you always know where each kind of thing goes. The Tags section is the exception: it comes and goes with the day's tags by design.

Because those empty sections are really there, they double as drop targets. Drag a task onto the empty Scheduled section to put it on the timeline, even before anything else is scheduled. Day segments work the same way: with Show day segments even when empty on (in Settings under Calendar & Events, and on by default), Morning, Afternoon, and Evening keep their headings through the quiet stretches, so the day always reads in three parts.

If you've given the To Dos section an item limit, a short day shows only your planned few and folds the rest under a "full page" note; tap the note to peek below the fold.

A focus for each part of the day

Some days deserve more than one intention: a purpose for the morning that differs from the afternoon, and something else again for the evening. Tap the Morning, Afternoon, or Evening heading and add a short focus for just those hours, a few words like "admin and email" or "deep work". It shows as a caption under the heading, so when you're choosing what to do next you can see at a glance what belongs in that stretch and what should wait for another day.

Tap the heading again to change the focus, or remove it from the same editor. The disclosure chevron still folds the section away, so a focus never gets in the way of collapsing a part of the day you're done with.

A focus belongs to the single day you set it on, and it syncs across your devices. Set it the night before or first thing in the morning, whenever you have a clear enough picture of the day to give each stretch its purpose.

The journal

At day's end, capture thoughts in your journal: space for reflection, gratitude, or tomorrow's rough ideas, like the notes section of a paper planner. In the morning, add a quick line about what you hope to accomplish. You'll see that thought atop your Daily tab throughout the day to help you stay focused.

Entries you log as the day goes also appear on the timeline, each sitting at the time you wrote it among your events and tasks. This is on by default; turn off Journal Entries in the Customize options if you'd rather keep the clock for events and tasks only.

A separate option, Related Entries, tucks a journal entry underneath the event or task it overlaps, rather than placing it on the timeline. When an entry was written during a scheduled item's time window, it appears just below that item's row. This only works for items that have both a set time and a duration (all-day and time-only items are skipped), and the toggle lives under Calendar Events in the Agenda options, so it's hidden unless calendar events are shown. It's off by default. Related Entries and Journal Entries are independent: seeing an entry nested under an event doesn't mean it's on the clock, and vice versa.

In the Broadsheet design, the journal sets as a "Letters" column. It's always there once you've turned the section on, even on a blank day: tap the serif "Write a letter" line to start an entry for the day you're viewing.

Related: Adding Tasks · Timeline & Time Blocking · The Daily Rhythm