Further Than I Dreamed
I have been dreaming about what DayMap could be for more than fifteen years. The idea was always simple: one window where your projects and your days sit together, so the work you care about finds its way onto a day.
This fall it went past anything I had pictured. DayMap now speaks six languages, opens each morning with the whole day in view, looks back over a week or a year, and runs on every Apple device you own. A lot of it exists because somebody wrote in, so I wanted to tell you about it myself.
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DayMap in six languages
DayMap runs in Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese, alongside English, and follows the language your device is set to. To use a different language for DayMap alone, choose it under DayMap in the Settings app on iPhone and iPad, or in System Settings → General → Language & Region on the Mac.
Translation is never finished. If anything reads wrong, Report a Translation Problem in Settings sends me the exact words, which helps far more than a description.
Your 3 Daily Bearings lead the day
Mark a task as one of the day's three most important and it moves to the top of that day, numbered 1, 2, 3 in the order you chose. Mark a repeating task and it is a Bearing every day it comes round, without setting it again.
Overlook: your day at a glance
The first time you open DayMap each day, Overlook shows your 3 Daily Bearings, what is happening at a set time, deadlines due or overdue, and what carried over from yesterday. Start the Day closes it, and the eye in the toolbar brings it back any time.
Start the day once, too: close Overlook on one device and your others no longer open it again that day. Overlook is part of DayMap Pro.
Summary: look back
Look back over a week, a month, a quarter or a year: what you finished, which projects it went to, and how the days ran. On the Mac it is File → Summary.
Summary pages now print with proper margins and break between lines, and Save PDF works on iPhone and iPad as well as the Mac. Saving or printing it is part of Pro.
Search you can trust
Results are the tasks you searched for, every time. Typing "cafe" finds "café", and when the match is in a task's notes, the result shows you the sentence with the match in bold.
And more
Swipe between projects on iPhone. Swipe left or right in the space below a project's tasks to move to the next one, without going back to the list.
Deadlines that repeat. A deadline on a repeating task now repeats with it, so an annual filing due June 30 shows next June instead of counting the days since the last one.
Waypoint in your own words. The end-of-day questions DayMap provides can be reworded, and days you have already written keep the wording you answered.
Next 7 Days starts on today and moves a day at a time.
Ready for iPhone Duo. Opened, your projects and your week sit side by side.
Print Day asks which day on the Mac, and printed days and weeks match the calendar: repeating tasks print on every day they land on, in the order you gave them.
Focus counts what you have done. Its count could show every task as done before you had finished any.
The things that should just work
When iCloud sync stops, DayMap says so, and Settings has a Reconnect to iCloud button for the rare case it stays stopped.
Quick Add opens ready to type, and a new task lands in your Inbox when no project is selected.
All-day events take one line each, and the whole app changes over to the new day together at midnight.
Many of these began as an email from someone using DayMap. Thank you for writing in. You have made DayMap better than I could have alone, so please keep doing it.
DayMap is on the Mac App Store and the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
With gratitude, and with a lot more still to come,
Todd