Onward and Upward
Notes on tasks, habits, and the practice of getting through an ordinary day, from the person who builds PathDay. New notes about once a month.
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PathDay on iPhone Duo
PathDay is ready for iPhone Duo: your list on one side of the fold and your task on the other, a compact editor when it is closed, and your place kept every time you fold.
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PathDay is on the Mac
PathDay comes to the Mac, built for a keyboard and a bigger screen, and the same update brings the Journal to iPhone, iPad and Mac.
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A journal that lives with your day
PathDay now has a Journal: a page for every day, check-ins with questions you write yourself, photos, and voice entries turned into text, right beside your tasks and habits.
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A watch app you can finish things on
PathDay on Apple Watch is a real app, not a viewer. Complete tasks, log habits and read your mantra in full, right from your wrist.
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Three widgets that do more
Today, Habits and Mantras each do their own work on the Home Screen, so for most of your day you never open the app at all.
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Bring your TasksDojo/aProDay data into PathDay
Move your tasks, habits, mantras and focus history from TasksDojo (now aProDay) to PathDay with one file, in about two minutes.
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Inbox. Capture now. Decide later.
The biggest idea in PathDay is the Inbox. It gives you somewhere to put a thought without having to organize it first. Add what you need to do to inbox and get back to what you were doing. When you have time to think through what you’ve collected, click on Process Inbox to work through…
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What do I need to do today?
Every morning I ask one question. What do I need to do today? Not tomorrow, next week or even yesterday; today. The car registration is due sometime, the shopping list has been sitting there since last week, I told a friend I would reach out, and I want to run 3 miles before it gets…
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Why habits and tasks do not belong in the same list
For years I kept my habits and tasks all in one list. Meditate today, reach out to Sam and run 5 miles. Those sat next to the groceries and the car registration, and every morning all five got treated as the same kind of thing. They are not the same kind of thing. Keeping them…