What is DayMap?

DayMap brings your projects, tasks, and calendar into one clear view. Organize your work into projects, break projects into tasks, then schedule those tasks onto your day and week — so you always know what to do next. Plan your week, then focus on today.

Your data stays on your device and, optionally, syncs privately through your own iCloud account.

What languages is DayMap in?

English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese.

DayMap follows the language your iPhone, iPad or Mac is set to. To use a different language for DayMap alone, without changing the rest of your device:

• iPhone & iPad — the Settings app → DayMap → Language
• Mac — System Settings → General → Language & Region, then add DayMap under Applications

The translations are new, and I would rather hear about a wrong one than have it sit there. Report a Translation Problem — in DayMap's Settings, and in the Help menu on the Mac — sends me the exact words you are looking at, so I can fix the right line.

What devices does DayMap support?

DayMap runs on Apple devices — Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch. You’ll need macOS 14 or later, iOS/iPadOS 17 or later, and watchOS 10 or later.

On the Mac it runs on both Intel and Apple Silicon.

The Apple Watch app is a companion to the iPhone app, and it syncs only with DayMap Pro.

There's no web version, and no Windows or Android app, so there's nothing to open in a browser. If you need a project on a non-Apple machine, a project's share menu will Send a Copy as text, which you can mail to yourself and read anywhere.

Do I need to create an account?

No. DayMap has no logins or passwords. Your data lives on your device, and — with DayMap Pro — syncs privately through your own iCloud account. Nothing to sign up for.

Who makes DayMap?

DayMap is made by Whetstone Apps, LLC, in Virginia, USA.

How much does DayMap cost?

DayMap is free to download and use. DayMap Pro unlocks everything and is available three ways: $4.99 a month, $34.99 a year with a 14-day free trial, or $119.99 one-time for a lifetime unlock.

Those figures are US dollars. The App Store charges in your own currency, so outside the United States the price shown inside the app is Apple's local equivalent — a different number for the same purchase, not a different price. If the app quotes you more than this page does, that is almost certainly what you're looking at.

What do I get with DayMap Pro?

DayMap Pro unlocks iCloud sync across all your devices (including Apple Watch), shared projects with anyone else who has Pro, calendar sync with your Apple or Google calendar, reminders, repeating tasks, areas for grouping projects (Work, Family, Home…), templates, unlimited projects, Waypoint — an end-of-day panel for marking where you are — and Overlook, the day at a glance the first time you open DayMap each day.

One purchase covers your Mac, iPad and iPhone, and Family Sharing extends it to everyone in your Apple Family group. Monthly, annual and lifetime all unlock exactly the same features.

The free version includes unlimited tasks and up to 5 projects on one device, stored locally, with Focus, your 3 Daily Bearings, Siri, backups and archiving. It’s a complete way to plan your day.

How does the 14-day free trial work?

Start the annual plan and you won’t be charged for the first 14 days. Explore every Pro feature, and if it’s not for you, cancel anytime before the trial ends and you won’t pay a thing. After 14 days it continues at $34.99 a year unless canceled.

The trial comes with the annual plan. The monthly plan at $4.99 starts billing right away.

Annual subscription or lifetime — which should I choose?

All three unlock the exact same features. Monthly ($4.99 a month) is the smallest commitment and is the one to pick if you want to try Pro for a while without a year in mind. The annual plan ($34.99 a year) works out about 41% cheaper than paying monthly over twelve months, and includes the 14-day free trial. The lifetime option ($119.99 once) is a single payment with no renewals — best if you know you’re in for the long haul.

You don’t have to wait for the trial to end. Open Settings in DayMap and look under DayMap Pro — during a trial the button reads See Plans and Buy…, and lifetime is one of the options there. If you’re already on the annual plan it reads Switch to Lifetime… instead. Buying during a trial cancels nothing and loses nothing; it just ends the countdown.

(In DayMap 1.26 and earlier, Settings said “DayMap Pro is active” during a trial and offered no way through to the purchase. If that’s what you see, update to 1.27 or later.)

Is DayMap here to stay?

Yes. DayMap is being actively developed, and the plan is a long one.

It is fair to ask. Updates stopped for a stretch, and anyone who used DayMap back then has reason to wonder. What changed is how it gets built: it used to depend on freelance developers and their availability, and it no longer does. Development is steady now, and updates land regularly — you can see the pace for yourself on the release history page.

Buying Lifetime is a vote of confidence, and it is taken as one. DayMap has a long, bright future ahead of it, and new technology keeps making it possible to build things that were out of reach a year ago.

If there is something you need DayMap to do, say so — support@daymapapp.com. A great deal of what has shipped recently started as somebody's email.

Can I share DayMap Pro with my family?

Yes. DayMap Pro supports Family Sharing, so one purchase can be shared with everyone in your Apple Family group.

This shares the purchase, not your projects — everyone in the group gets Pro, and each person keeps their own projects and tasks. If you do want to work on something together, that is a shared project, which is a separate thing and can go to anybody with Pro rather than only your family.

What are areas? (they used to be called contexts)

Areas (a Pro feature) group related projects — like Work, Family, or Home — so you can filter the Project Planner down to what matters right now.

They were called contexts until 1.12. Nothing moved when the word changed: your projects are filed exactly where they were. In GTD a context is where you can do something (@phone, @errands); what DayMap groups is a domain of responsibility, which is an area.

A project belongs to one area, or to none — and it can also be set to appear in any number of others. See Can a project be in more than one area?

A project you haven't filed appears under No Area, and the areas menu counts them so none go missing. To have a project span everything, like the calls and emails you owe each day, switch on every area.

Renaming, deleting and reordering them all happen in one place: Settings, Areas — on the Mac and on iPhone and iPad. Type over an area's name to rename it. Click the colored dot to change its color. Drag a row to reorder (on iPhone, press Edit first), and the order you choose is the order everywhere — the Planner's area filter, the New Project sheet, and your other devices.

Deleting an area never deletes the projects in it. They move to No Area, and DayMap says how many will move before it does anything. There's no undo on the filing itself, so you'd have to assign them again by hand.

Can a project be in more than one area?

Yes. A project is filed in one area, and can be set to appear in as many others as you like.

Open a project's menu and choose Areas:

• Belongs to — where the project is filed. This is the area it counts as being in, and it's only ever one.
• Also appears in — every other area you want to find it under. Filtering the board to one of those shows the project, without changing where it's filed.

Where to find it: on the Mac and iPad, a project column's ••• menu, or press and hold the column. On iPhone, press and hold a project in your Projects list, or open the project and tap ⓘ.

Putting a project into areas this way is free. Creating an area is part of DayMap Pro.

This replaces an older behavior. A project with no area used to appear in every area view. It now appears under No Area instead, and the areas menu shows how many projects are there. If you want a project to span everything — the calls and emails you owe each day — switch on every area and it will show up in all of them, because you asked for it rather than because it was unfiled.

How do recurring tasks work?

With DayMap Pro, set a task to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly, and DayMap keeps it on your schedule automatically.

Why can't I check off a repeating task in the Project Planner?

Because in the Planner it isn't a copy of the task — it's the rule that makes all the copies.

A repeating task now shows a repeat symbol in your project's color instead of a checkbox, with how it repeats underneath the name — "Weekly — Tue, Wed, Thu". Click that symbol to change the rule.

Tick it off wherever the day exists instead:

• The Task Scheduler — the calendar below your projects
• Focus
• The Schedule tab on iPhone

Each of those is a real day, so finishing one there means "I did this today" and leaves the rest of the series alone.

This changed for a reason worth knowing. The checkbox used to mark the rule itself complete, which meant switching on Hide Completed made the repeating task disappear from your project entirely — the thing generating all the work vanished because it had been ticked once. Repeating tasks now stay put in the Planner, including any that went missing on you before.

To stop a repeating task, right-click it on the calendar: Skip This Day, Delete This and Future, or Delete Repeating Task.

How do I move one day of a repeating task without moving the rest?

Open the task from that day — in the Task Scheduler, Upcoming, Focus, or the Schedule tab on iPhone — and change its date. Under the date it says Changes this day only and names the day the series starts. Only that day moves; the rest of the series stays where it was. Dragging it to another day does the same.

Beside the date is Skip This Day, which takes that one day off.

To move the whole series, open the task from its project instead. There the date is labeled Starts, and changing it moves every day of the series.

The first day of a series is the one exception: its date is when the series starts, so changing it moves the days after it too. The editor says so when you open it.

In Focus, Reschedule on a repeating task moves only that day as well.

Before DayMap 1.45, changing the date from a day moved the whole series.

Can I capture ideas quickly?

Yes. Use the Inbox to jot anything down in a couple of taps, then organize it into a project when you’re ready. On Mac there’s also a global quick-add shortcut.

How do I add a task straight onto a particular day on iPhone?

Tap the + at the right of that day's heading in the Schedule tab. Every day has one, in both Upcoming and Day.

Quick Add opens with that day already chosen, and says where the task will land: the project, which is your Inbox unless you have set Quick Add to file somewhere else, and the date. To file it in a project instead, tap Project… (a folder icon on smaller iPhones).

The day you tapped always wins. Type "Meet Tom Friday" into Tuesday's + and it goes on Tuesday, with "Friday" kept in the name.

On a day with nothing on it, the "Your day is clear" screen has an Add a Task button that does the same.

The blue + in the tab bar works as before: it adds to your Inbox with no day.

On a Mac or iPad, each day in the Task Scheduler has its own + for typing a task straight onto it.

What is Waypoint?

Waypoint is an end-of-day panel for marking where you are. A few short questions, a couple of minutes, and no scoring of any kind.

It comes from the idea behind DayMap: every good navigator stops at the end of a day’s walk and marks where they actually are — not to grade themselves, but to get their bearings for tomorrow.

There are no streaks and no counts, and days you skip are simply not shown. It’s part of DayMap Pro, and it stays hidden until you switch it on.

How do I turn on Waypoint, and where is it?

Waypoint is off until you switch it on.

• Mac — Preferences (⌘,) → Show Waypoint
• iPhone & iPad — Settings → Show Waypoint

Once it’s on, open it from the map-pin button:

• Mac — in the toolbar, or press ⇧⌘M
• iPad — in the toolbar
• iPhone — top right of the Schedule tab

It slides in beside your work on Mac and iPad, and opens as a panel on iPhone. Waypoint is part of DayMap Pro; without Pro you’ll see an upgrade option in Settings instead of the switch.

Can I look back at what I’ve written in Waypoint?

Yes. Open Waypoint and tap the clock icon at the top for Looking Back — every day you’ve written something, newest first, with your answers under the questions that prompted them. Tap any day to open and edit it.

You can also narrow it to a single question, so you can read straight down everything you’ve been grateful for, or everything you learned.

Days you didn’t write anything simply aren’t listed. There are no gaps to look at and nothing is counted.

How do I make a task a subtask?

Drag a task onto another one to nest it underneath. On the Mac you can also do it from the keyboard, which is quicker for a list you’re building as you type:

• Tab — make the selected task a subtask of the one above it
• Shift-Tab — move it back out

Both are in the Task menu as well, on ⌃⌘→ and ⌃⌘←.

Got it wrong? ⌘Z puts the task back exactly where it was, with anything nested under it. Subtasks can go as deep as you need.

How do reminders work?

Reminders are part of DayMap Pro. With Pro, turn on Show reminders on this device in Settings — Show reminders on this Mac on the Mac — and DayMap notifies you at the time set on a task. Without Pro the switch is still there, and a note beside it says reminders need Pro rather than leaving you waiting on an alert that isn't coming. Tasks with a date but no specific time don't produce a reminder — there's no moment to notify you at.

Reminders are per-device on purpose. Switch them on for the one device you want to be alerted on, usually your iPhone, so the same task doesn't buzz three times. A recurring task reminds you on every occurrence, not just the first.

How long an alert stays on screen isn't something DayMap controls — that's your system's Notifications settings, where Banners disappear after a few seconds and Alerts stay until you dismiss them. If the toggle in DayMap won't switch on, notifications are switched off for DayMap there; DayMap will offer to take you straight to it.

DayMap does not connect to Apple Reminders. It doesn't read your reminders or write to them — the alerts above are DayMap's own. The app it does connect to is your calendar: with Pro, scheduled tasks can be written to your Apple or Google calendar, and your events appear alongside them in DayMap's day.

Can I change the order of my tasks within a day?

Yes — drag them into the order you mean to work them.

On a Mac you can do this in the calendar's week view, in the Upcoming list, and in Focus. You can also move the selected task with Option-Up and Option-Down, which needs no dragging at all.

On iPhone, open the Schedule tab's Day view, tap Arrange, drag by the grips on the right, then tap Done. In the Upcoming list, drag a task up or down within its day.

The order you set syncs to your other devices with DayMap Pro.

Tasks with a specific time are the exception — the clock decides where those go, so they sit in the day's timed strip rather than in the list you arrange.

In the Project Planner, the order is manual only. Drag a task up or down within its project and it stays where you put it — there's no sort-by-date option there, or anywhere else in DayMap. A scheduled task carries a small red clock beside it, so the ones without a date are the rows without a clock, but that's something to spot rather than a filter you can apply.

I can't change a task's time — it keeps going back to 9:00 AM.

This was a bug, and it's fixed. Update to DayMap 1.10 or later and it will clear.

The date field was saving the day and throwing the time away, so every edit — including every click of the little arrows — was replaced with 9:00 AM. It affected every task on every device.

If you're up to date and still can't change a time, please email support@daymapapp.com.

How do I remove a task's time without taking it off my calendar?

Open the task and switch off Set a specific time. The task keeps its day, and if it's one of your Daily Bearings it stays one.

The Unschedule button beside the date does something different — it takes the task off the calendar altogether and returns it to its project. A bearing has to belong to a day, so it loses its mark when you do that.

In versions before 1.11 that button was called "Clear", which read as though it would only empty the date field. Same behavior, clearer name.

My task name is too long to read. Where does the rest of it go?

From DayMap 1.11, task names and note previews show two lines instead of one, so most names now fit.

On a Mac, hovering over a name that's still too long shows the whole thing. You can also open the task to read it in full.

If the text in the calendar area is what's hard to read, there's a size setting, Scheduler text size. On the Mac it's in Settings → General, near the bottom beside "Use high contrast fonts", with four sizes to choose from. On iPad it's in Settings → Appearance, with three. iPhone doesn't have this setting.

From DayMap 1.45 the month view follows it too. At Large and Extra Large, the month's day numbers and task names are larger, and a busy day shows fewer tasks with a larger "+N more".

Voice capture is transcribing the wrong language.

Before DayMap 1.11, voice capture always listened in English no matter what you spoke. Update and it will follow your system language.

You can also choose a language explicitly: Settings → Dictation. It names the language it will use and lets you pick a different one.

If dictation refuses to start, it now tells you why — which permission is missing, that the language isn't available on your device, or that something else is using the microphone. It used to give one vague message for all of them.

What keyboard shortcuts does DayMap have on the Mac?

Creating

• ⌘N — New task
• ⇧⌘N — New project
• ⌥⌘N — Quick add to Inbox
• ⇧⌘D — Voice capture

Working on a task

• ⌘I — Open details
• ⌘⌫ — Delete task
• ⌃⌘→ — Make subtask
• ⌃⌘← — Move out of subtask
• ⌥↑ / ⌥↓ — Move the selected task up or down its day

Moving around

• ⌘T — Today
• ⌘[ / ⌘] — Previous / next week or month
• ⌘1 / ⌘2 — Week / month view
• ⇧⌘F — Focus
• ⇧⌘O — Overlook
• ⇧⌘M — Waypoint

Showing and hiding

• ⇧⌘E — Collapse or expand the project you're in
• ⌥⌘← / ⌥⌘→ — Collapse or expand every project
• ⇧⌘K — Show or hide calendar events
• ⇧⌘C — Show or hide completed tasks

Other

• ⇧⌘T — Bring overdue tasks to today
• ⌘P — Print day · ⇧⌘P — Print week · ⌥⌘P — Print project

What are the 3 Daily Bearings?

Your three most important tasks for a given day, marked 1, 2 and 3.

Most days carry more work than you can honestly call important. Bearings ask you to name the three that would make the day count — the ones you'd want done even if nothing else got touched. The numerals rank them, so it's an order as well as a shortlist.

Three is a fixed limit, and that's the point. If a fourth mattered as much, one of the first three didn't.

A bearing belongs to a day, so a task has to be scheduled before it can be one. Take a task off the calendar and it stops being a bearing — there's no day left for it to be important on.

A repeating task is a bearing on every day it repeats. Mark your sermon prep once and it's one of the three on each day it comes round, without setting it again every week. If one of those days already has three, that day keeps the three you chose and the repeating one sits it out.

How do I make a task one of my Daily Bearings?

On a Mac: right-click the task and choose Make this a Bearing, then pick the day. Right-click a task that's already one and you'll get Remove Bearing instead — or Remove Bearing from Every Day on a repeating task, because that's what it does.

On iPhone: swipe the task and tap Bearing. If you don't see it, check your swipe actions in Settings — Bearing is one of the actions you can assign.

In Focus: right-click any task in the day's list.

If the day already has three, DayMap asks which one drops off rather than refusing or demoting one. You choose the replacement.

The order follows how your day is arranged, so dragging a bearing above another renumbers them — the badges and your running order can't disagree.

On a repeating task you're marking the task, not one of its days, so the number can differ from day to day: it might be 1 on Tuesday and 2 on Wednesday, depending on what else you marked. In the Projects list, where no day is in view, it shows the badge without a number.

My Daily Bearings have disappeared.

Check the setting first: Settings → Show 3 Daily Bearings. On iPhone it's in the same place.

This one catches people out because the setting syncs between your devices. Switching it off on a phone turns it off on your Mac too, and the section simply isn't drawn — nothing on screen explains where it went. If bearings vanished everywhere at once and you don't remember turning them off, that's almost certainly what happened.

Two other reasons a specific bearing can disappear:

• The task was unscheduled. A bearing belongs to a day, so taking a task off the calendar clears its mark. Using Unschedule in the task editor does this; switching off "Set a specific time" does not.
• You're looking at a different day. A bearing you set on a one-off task belongs to that task's day and no other. A repeating task is different — it's a bearing on every day it repeats.
• That day already had three. A repeating bearing gives way to the three you chose for a particular day, and comes back on its other days.

What is Overlook?

Your day at a glance. It's named for the high point on a trail where you can see the whole route below.

Overlook opens by itself the first time you open DayMap each day. Under the date and how many tasks are on today, it shows:

• 3 Daily Bearings — your three for today, numbered, with each one's project
• At a time — tasks with a time, and today's calendar events if you show them in DayMap
• Deadlines — tasks due today or overdue, most overdue first
• Carried over — how many unfinished tasks moved to today this morning, with Show them to list them
• Everything else today — a count by project, like "5 more: Work 2, Home 2, Inbox 1"

It shows the whole day whichever area you have selected. Overlook only shows the day; you work on your tasks where you always do.

If you haven't chosen today's Bearings, it shows three empty places and a Choose Bearings button. Choosing is optional. On the Mac and iPad that opens Focus on today; on iPhone it takes you to today in the Schedule tab, where you press and hold a task and choose Make this a Bearing.

Press Start the Day to close it. On the Mac, Return or Escape work too; on iPhone and iPad you can also swipe it down.

Overlook is part of DayMap Pro. It isn't on Apple Watch.

How do I open Overlook, or stop it opening each day?

To open it any time, use the eye:

• Mac and iPad — the eye in the toolbar, between Focus and Waypoint
• iPhone — the eye on today's heading in the Schedule tab, beside the day's +

On the Mac it's also Task → Overlook… in the menu bar, or ⇧⌘O.

To stop it opening by itself, switch off Open Overlook each day:

• Mac — Settings (⌘,) → General
• iPhone & iPad — Settings → Your Day → Overlook

This is set on each device separately, so it can open on your Mac and not on your phone. The eye still works with it off.

It opens by itself once a day on each device. On a Mac you leave running, bringing DayMap forward on a new day counts. Right after launch it can take a few seconds to appear while DayMap catches up with iCloud, and it never opens the very first time you use DayMap.

On a Mac, DayMap can't quit while Overlook is open, the same as with Focus. Press Start the Day first.

Overlook is part of DayMap Pro. Without Pro it never opens by itself, the eye and ⇧⌘O open the upgrade screen, and Settings offers the upgrade in place of the switch.

What is Summary?

A look back over what you finished. Choose Week, Month, Quarter or Year, and DayMap builds a short document from your own records:

• How much — tasks completed, split into one-off and recurring, and how many days you were active
• Day by day — a row per day for a week, or per week for anything longer
• What you finished — the tasks themselves, grouped by project. A repeating task appears once with a count beside it

Archived projects and the template library are left out. A repeating task counts once for each day you completed it.

Week opens on last week, because that is usually the one you want to look back on. Month, Quarter and Year open on the current one. The arrows beside the buttons step further back.

Your Waypoint entries can be included — the switch is off every time you open it, so a journal never ends up in something you meant to share without you asking.

Summary is free to read. Saving it as a PDF, or printing it on the Mac, is part of DayMap Pro.

Where do I find Summary, and can I save it?

• Mac — File → Summary…, or ⇧⌘R
• iPad — View → Summary…, or ⇧⌘R. The menu bar needs a hardware keyboard
• iPhone — Settings → Summary. Settings closes and Summary opens

Save PDF… is on every platform. Print… is on the Mac. Both are part of DayMap Pro — without it the buttons are still there with a padlock, so you can see what you would get.

It isn't on Apple Watch.

How do I rename or delete an area?

Settings, Areas — on the Mac, and on iPhone and iPad.

Rename: type over the area's name in its row. Color: click or tap the colored dot. Reorder: drag a row. On iPhone, press Edit first. The order you choose is the order everywhere — the Planner's area filter, the New Project sheet, and your other devices. Delete: the trash button on the Mac, or swipe on iPhone.

Deleting an area never deletes the projects in it. DayMap counts them first and asks what you want to do with them: archive them, or keep them on the board. Cancel leaves everything as it was.

Archived, they leave your board and their tasks stop appearing on your days — Projects, Archive brings them back. Kept, they move to No Area, where the areas menu counts them until you file them again. There's no undo on the filing itself, so you'd assign those again by hand.

Areas are part of DayMap Pro. See What are areas? for what they're for.

Can I attach a file to a task?

You can link one. Drag a file from Finder onto a task and DayMap adds a link to it in the task's notes; tasks carrying one show a small mark. Tap or click the link to open the file.

The file itself is not stored inside DayMap, deliberately. Copying it in would tie your tasks to your iCloud storage and make sharing them harder later. DayMap keeps a pointer to where the file already lives.

Which means where you keep it matters. A file in iCloud Drive or Dropbox opens on your phone too. A file sitting on your Mac's own disk will not, because your phone has no way to reach it — DayMap says so next to the link rather than letting you find out on the day you need it.

Any web address you type or paste into a task's notes becomes a link the same way.

Is there a home screen widget?

Yes — a Today widget showing your remaining tasks for today and what's coming up next. It comes in small and medium sizes.

Add it the usual way: touch and hold the home screen on iPhone or iPad, tap +, and search for DayMap.

The widget follows the same data as the app, so it updates as you check things off.

Can I reuse a checklist I use often?

Yes, as a template. A task and its subtasks can be saved once and started fresh whenever you need them — a packing list, an onboarding checklist, a weekly review.

To save one: right-click a task on the Mac, or press and hold it on iPhone, and choose Save as Template…

To use one: the Task menu on the Mac has New from Template, and a project's menu offers the same. You get a fresh copy with nothing checked off, so the original stays clean.

Templates are part of DayMap Pro.

Can I send someone a copy of a project?

Yes. A project's menu has Send a Copy — as text on any device, and as a PDF on the Mac. It opens the normal share sheet, so it can go wherever you'd send anything else.

What they get is a snapshot, not a live view: the project as it stands at that moment, in a format that needs no app to read. It honors your completed-tasks setting, so what you send matches what you're looking at.

Notes are never included. Notes are where people jot things that were meant for them alone, and mailing those by accident is not a mistake worth risking.

That is the difference from sharing a project, where you both work on the same tasks and the notes do come with it — see Can I share a project with someone else?

Can I print my day, week, or a project?

On the Mac, yes. File → Print offers Print Day, Print Week and Print Project, and a project's own menu has Print Project… for that column specifically.

Printing follows the same completed-tasks setting the screen uses, so the page matches what you were looking at.

There's no printing from iPhone or iPad. Send a Copy as a PDF is the nearest thing there, and that PDF can be printed from anywhere.

Can I change how wide project columns are?

On the Mac and iPad. Settings, Appearance has a choice of Small, Medium or Large — that's the width new projects start at. Medium is the width every project had before the setting existed, so nothing moves until you choose otherwise.

Drag a column's edge to change just that one, as always.

There's also a button that applies one width to every column at once, including any you've resized by hand, and it tells you how many it changed.

The two behave differently on purpose. The picker is per device, so a width that suits your Mac doesn't follow you to your iPad. The apply-to-all button does reach your other devices, because a column's width is stored with the project itself.

Can I format text in a task's notes?

Yes. Notes understand simple Markdown — bold, italic, lists and links — and render as you'd expect.

Pasting a list from Notes or a web page brings the list structure with it rather than flattening it into one block of text.

Any web address in a note becomes a tappable link shown below the field.

Can I duplicate a task?

Yes. Right-click a task and choose Duplicate.

On the Mac you can also hold Option while dragging a task to a day — that leaves the original where it is and drops a copy on the day, which is quicker than duplicating and then moving.

A duplicate brings the task's subtasks, notes and details with it. It does not bring a repeat rule; a copy is a separate task, not another occurrence of the same one.

What is Focus?

A single day, on its own: the day's tasks in a list on the left, and whichever one you select opened for editing on the right. It's for working through a day rather than planning across weeks.

On the Mac it's in the toolbar and the Task menu. On iPad it's in the toolbar. There's no Focus on iPhone — the phone's Schedule tab already shows one day at a time, which is what Focus exists to give the bigger screens.

You can change the day from inside it, check things off, edit details, and set a Bearing by right-clicking. Unlike the Planner, Focus counts what you've already finished, so a day you've worked through still reads as a full day.

What is “Your Name” in Settings for?

It's the name recorded as the author of the tasks and projects you create, and it's what people see next to your work in a shared project.

Settings, General, Your Name. It follows you to your other devices like any other setting, so you only set it once.

On a Mac, DayMap starts with your macOS account name — the same name it has always printed at the bottom of anything you send or print. On iPhone and iPad there's no account name to borrow, so until you set one your work isn't marked with a name at all and copies you send are signed simply “From DayMap”.

You can change it whenever you like. It's a label, not an account — DayMap still has no sign-in.

Can I archive a project instead of deleting it?

Yes. A project's menu has Archive Project — on the Mac's column menu, and on iPhone by pressing and holding a project or opening its settings.

An archived project leaves your board and its tasks stop appearing on your days: no calendar, no Today, no Bearings, no reminders, nothing on the watch. Nothing is deleted.

To find one again: Shift-Command-A on the Mac, the areas menu in the toolbar on iPad, or on iPhone the Archive row at the bottom of your Projects list. Restore puts it back exactly as it was.

Archived projects don't count toward the 5-project limit on the free plan, so you never have to delete real work to make room.

If you came from the original DayMap, projects you had archived there now come across archived instead of landing on your board.

Can I add my own questions to Waypoint?

Yes — two of them. Settings, Your Day, Waypoint, in the fields under the Show Waypoint switch. Press Return to save; moving away from the field saves it too.

Your questions are asked at the end of your Waypoint, alongside the ones that ship with it, and they follow you to your other devices.

Changing a question keeps what you already wrote under the old one. If you've answered “What did I learn?” for a month and then reword it, those entries still show the question you actually answered — looking back, nothing re-labels itself as something you were never asked.

Clearing a field withdraws that question. It stops being asked, and everything written under it stays readable.

Can I share what I've written in Waypoint?

Yes. The share button at the top of the Waypoint pane offers Today, This Week, This Month or Everything, and sends it as plain text through the normal share sheet.

The range you pick is named at the top of what goes out, so there's never a question about what was included. Days you didn't write on are left out rather than appearing as blanks.

Nothing leaves DayMap unless you send it. Waypoint is a journal; sharing it is always something you choose, one range at a time.

How do I sync my data between devices?

DayMap syncs through iCloud using your own Apple account. To use sync:

1. Make sure you’re signed into the same Apple ID and iCloud on each device.
2. Turn on sync in DayMap (a DayMap Pro feature).
3. Quit DayMap completely and reopen it after turning sync on or off. Switching away and back isn’t enough — DayMap only picks up the change when it starts.

Your preferences travel with you too — things like the completed-tasks filter, which day your week starts on, and appearance stay in step across your devices.

My devices aren’t syncing. What should I check?

• You’re signed into the same Apple ID on both devices.
• iCloud is enabled for DayMap in your device settings.
• DayMap Pro is active on both — sync is a Pro feature, and a device without it keeps everything local.
• You have an active internet connection.
• Give it a moment — the first sync can take a little longer.
• Quit and reopen DayMap on both devices. DayMap decides at launch whether it’s syncing, so turning iCloud on in a running app changes nothing until it’s restarted.

If it’s some of your Inbox tasks that never arrive while others do, open the Inbox itself on both devices and give it a minute. Each device creates an Inbox the first time something needs one, so two devices can each end up with one of their own before they’ve heard of each other. Opening it on both merges them and brings the tasks together.

Still stuck? Email us, and say roughly how many tasks are affected and whether new ones sync while the older ones stay put — that difference narrows it down quickly.

Can I share a project with someone else?

Yes. You can share one project with another person, and you both work on the same tasks.

To share one: open the project's menu and choose Share Project…. That opens Apple's own sharing panel, so the invitation can go by Mail, Messages or a link — wherever you'd send anything else. The same menu becomes Manage Shared Project… once a project is shared.

You both need DayMap Pro. Shared projects travel through iCloud, and a copy of DayMap without Pro doesn't open an iCloud store at all. The invitation says so in its own title, so nobody accepts one only to find they can't open it. Family Sharing covers this — one purchase covers everyone in your Apple Family group.

One project at a time. Sharing is per project, not per area and not your whole account. Everything else stays private.

What crosses: tasks and subtasks, notes, deadlines, repeats, and anything either of you ticks off. Add or edit on either side and the other sees it.

What doesn't: your areas. An area holds other projects that aren't shared, so it can't travel with one that is. The other person sees the project on its own and can file it wherever they like on their side, without touching your filing.

The name stays yours. They can edit everything inside the project, but not rename the project itself, so you both go on calling it the same thing.

Your Inbox and your template library can't be shared.

If we share a project, what happens when one of us ticks something off?

It's done for both of you, on every day.

That holds for an ordinary task and for every occurrence of a repeating one. If you share a weekly task and the other person marks Tuesday done, you see Tuesday done.

Bearings are the exception, and worth knowing before you invite somebody. A bearing is marked on the task itself rather than on your own copy of it. So a task you make one of your three in a shared project carries that mark to the other person too.

For the same reason they can't make a shared task one of their three — it would take one of your slots. DayMap says so on the spot rather than refusing without a reason, and bearings on their own projects work as they always have.

How do I stop sharing a project, or leave one shared with me?

Both live in the project's menu, and which one you get depends on whose project it is.

If it's yours: choose Manage Shared Project… and stop sharing from Apple's panel. The project stays with you, keeps its area, and goes back to being private. Nothing of yours is removed.

If somebody shared it with you: choose Leave Shared Project…. DayMap asks first, because from your side leaving looks much like deleting. The project leaves your devices and stays with its owner, untouched.

When a share ends, the other person is told. DayMap names the project that went and says their own work is untouched, rather than letting a project disappear with nothing said.

Do my settings sync between devices?

Most of them, yes. Things like the completed-tasks filter, which day your week starts on, appearance, and whether 3 Daily Bearings are shown now stay in step across your Mac, iPad and iPhone.

A few stay on each device on purpose, because syncing them would cause problems:

• Reminders — so you’re not alerted three times for one task
• Calendar sync — so a task isn’t written into your calendar once per device
• The Quick Add shortcut — it’s a Mac keyboard shortcut
• Open Overlook each day — so it can open on one device and not on another

You can check it’s working on the Mac in Preferences → iCloud, which will say whether your preferences are following you.

Do my Daily Bearings sync between devices?

Yes, with DayMap Pro. A bearing is part of the task, so it travels with everything else through your iCloud account.

The on/off setting for showing bearings syncs as well, which is worth knowing: switching the display off on one device switches it off on all of them.

On Apple Watch the numerals always show — the watch has no Settings screen to host the switch.

DayMap says my changes haven't reached iCloud. What do I do?

An orange cloud beside Search means DayMap has something to tell you about syncing. It only appears for a problem — nothing there means nothing is wrong.

Open the report:

• Mac — Settings (⌘,) → General, under Use iCloud
• iPhone & iPad — Settings → iCloud & Backups

Your work is safe on this device either way. Nothing is lost while it waits; it just hasn't been copied to your other devices yet.

First, quit DayMap and open it again. That clears most of it.

If it keeps saying the same thing, use Reconnect to iCloud in that same place. DayMap sets up its iCloud connection again the next time it opens. Your projects and tasks aren't touched, and nothing is removed from iCloud.

If it still won't clear, send me what the report says — it names which part stopped and when, and that tells me more than anything else you could describe.

Do shared projects appear on my Apple Watch?

Not yet. The Watch app shows your own projects, and a project somebody shared with you won't be among them.

Everything else on the Watch works as it always has, and the shared project is on your iPhone, iPad and Mac as normal.

It's on the list. If it's something you'd use, write to support@daymapapp.com and say so — that's what moves it.

Is there a DayMap app for Apple Watch?

Yes — and it’s included with the iPhone app, not a separate purchase. Install DayMap on your iPhone, then open the Watch app on your iPhone, scroll to Available Apps, and tap Install next to DayMap.

What can I do on the watch?

• Today — see the tasks scheduled for today and check them off with a tap.
• Capture — tap the mic and speak; your words become a task in your Inbox.
• Complications — add DayMap to your watch face to see how many tasks are left today, or tap straight into capture.

How does capturing on the watch work?

Tap the mic and talk. Your words become text right on your watch and drop into your Inbox, ready to sort later. No recordings to manage — just the note.

Does the watch sync with my other devices?

Yes, through your iCloud account, just like your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Tasks added on the watch appear everywhere, and tasks scheduled elsewhere show up on the watch. Syncing is a DayMap Pro feature.

My watch isn’t showing my tasks.

The watch shows your data through iCloud sync, so check that your iPhone and watch are signed into the same Apple ID and that DayMap Pro is active with sync turned on. First sync can take a little longer — keeping the watch on its charger and near your iPhone helps.

Does DayMap work with my calendar?

Schedule a task to a day and time and it appears on DayMap’s own day and week views — that needs no setup at all.

Beyond that, DayMap connects to your calendar in two ways, and you can use either or both. Calendar Sync adds the tasks you schedule to a calendar you choose, so they show up alongside your other events. Calendar Events does the reverse: it shows your appointments inside DayMap, next to your tasks. Both are off until you turn them on in Settings.

Where do my events appear?

On a Mac or iPad, each day in the calendar underneath your projects shows its appointments pinned along the bottom, in time order, with any timed tasks mixed in — so you can see what's fixed and plan around it. All-day events sit just under the day's date. On iPhone, the Schedule tab does the same thing. Events are shown read-only: DayMap never changes them. Tap one to open it in your Calendar app.

Can I choose which calendars show up?

Yes. In Settings under Calendar Events, tick only the calendars you want to see. The calendar DayMap writes your own tasks into is left off that list on purpose, so your tasks don't appear twice.

What about Google Calendar?

That works too, as long as your Google account is already connected to your Mac or iPhone's Calendar app. You can pick one of your Google calendars as the destination for your DayMap tasks, and Google calendars can be displayed in DayMap like any other.

DayMap can’t see my calendar.

Check Settings → Privacy & Security → Calendars and make sure DayMap is allowed.

If DayMap isn’t in that list at all, it means it has never asked for access yet. macOS lists an app there only once the app has requested permission, and DayMap requests it the first time you switch on one of its calendar features — Calendar Events or Calendar Sync, both of which start off. Turn one on and the permission prompt should appear; allow it, and DayMap will be in the list from then on.

If one of them is already on and no prompt ever appeared, quit DayMap completely and reopen it, then switch the setting off and back on.

Clicking an event opens the Calendar app. Can I stop that?

Yes, from DayMap 1.11: Settings → Calendar Events → Clicking an event, set to Do nothing.

DayMap can't open a Google Calendar event directly. It reads your events through your device's calendar, and an event that arrives that way carries no link back to the web calendar it came from — so the choice is the Calendar app or nothing at all.

Where do tasks with a time sit in the day?

Tasks with a time gather in their own pinned strip, in clock order, alongside any calendar events for that day. Tasks without a time stay in the day's main list, in whatever order you've arranged them.

The strip sits at the top of the day by default. If you'd rather plan around your fixed points and keep the flexible work up top, Settings ▸ Appearance ▸ Timed tasks in a day moves it to the bottom. It stays pinned either way, so it never scrolls out of sight.

It used to always sit at the bottom, which several people told us was the worst place to see it. That's what the setting is for.

If you want a task back in the main list, switch off Set a specific time — it keeps its day.

A task didn't appear in my calendar.

Open Settings → Calendar. If DayMap couldn't write it, there is now a line there naming the task and the reason — a calendar it can't write to, or Calendar being unavailable at that moment.

Nothing appears there while it is working.

DayMap keeps trying on its own, so a passing problem usually clears itself. If the reason mentions permission or a read-only calendar, point DayMap at a calendar it can write to: Settings → Calendar → the calendar to write to.

The same line appears if DayMap removed a task but couldn't remove its event, which is worth knowing — otherwise an event stays in your calendar for something you have already dealt with.

How do I restore a purchase on a new device?

Open DayMap and go to Settings. In the section that shows your DayMap Pro status, tap Restore Purchases. Make sure you’re signed into the same Apple Account you used to buy.

How do I manage or cancel my subscription?

Subscriptions are managed through Apple: Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions on iPhone/iPad, or App Store → Account → Subscriptions on Mac. We can't cancel or change subscriptions on your behalf.

How do refunds work?

Refunds are handled by Apple. Request one at reportaproblem.apple.com.

What happens to my tasks and projects if my subscription ends?

Nothing you made is taken away. Every project, task, note and Waypoint entry stays exactly where it is, and you can keep using DayMap to plan your day.

The simplest way to put it: DayMap Pro pays for anything that leaves DayMap. What you made inside it is always yours.

So these stop until Pro is active again:

• iCloud sync — your devices stop keeping each other up to date, and each keeps what it already had.
• Calendar sync — your tasks stop appearing in Apple or Google Calendar. Nothing is removed from DayMap.
• Reminders — notifications stop arriving. Your tasks keep their times.

And these carry on:

• Everything you've already made — including projects beyond the free plan's five. You keep them all; you just can't add a sixth until Pro is back.
• Repeating tasks you already set up — they keep appearing on the days they should. Creating a new repeating task needs Pro.

Settings will tell you plainly when something has stopped for this reason, rather than leaving you to work it out. Turn Pro back on and everything resumes where it left off.

What happens to my Waypoint entries if my subscription ends?

Nothing is deleted. Waypoint is a Pro feature, so the panel disappears if Pro lapses — but everything you wrote stays exactly where it was, on your device and in your iCloud account.

The moment Pro is active again, all of it is there, unchanged. The same is true if you simply switch Waypoint off in Settings: it hides the panel and never removes a word.

Your Waypoint entries are also included in DayMap’s automatic backups, so you can export them at any time.

I click Buy on the upgrade screen and nothing happens.

This was a real bug on the Mac, and it's fixed in DayMap 1.11.

The buttons on the upgrade screen only responded to a click landing exactly on the product name or the price. A click anywhere else in the row — the empty space between them — did nothing at all, with no message to explain it.

If you're on an earlier version and want to buy right now, click directly on the words ("DayMap Pro (Lifetime)") or on the price itself. Updating to 1.11 is the better fix: the whole row works, and on a Mac the pointer becomes a hand so you can see where the button is.

If you've updated and it still does nothing, please email support@daymapapp.com — that would be something new and we'd want to see it.

I bought DayMap Pro but it hasn't unlocked.

Try Restore Purchases on the upgrade screen first. That's the usual fix on a device that hasn't caught up yet.

If that doesn't do it, the purchase may be waiting on someone else. Ask to Buy needs a family organizer to approve it, and some banks add an approval step of their own. Either way it unlocks by itself once approved — there's nothing further for you to do, and you shouldn't buy again.

From DayMap 1.11 the app tells you which of these has happened. Before that, a purchase waiting on approval looked exactly like nothing happening.

If you were charged and Pro still hasn't arrived, email support@daymapapp.com and we'll sort it out.

Does the person I share with see my notes?

In a shared project, yes. Notes on the project and on its tasks are part of what you're sharing, and they cross like anything else.

This is the opposite of Send a Copy, which never includes notes. The difference is deliberate: a copy goes to somebody who may not be expecting it, while a shared project is one you invited a particular person into.

So it's worth a look before you invite somebody. If a project holds notes meant only for you, move them out first, or share a different project.

Nothing else travels. Your other projects, your areas, your Waypoint entries and anything in a project you haven't shared stay private.

Is my data private?

Completely. DayMap does not collect your data. Everything stays on your device and, if you enable sync, in your personal iCloud account — which only you can access. There are no ads, no analytics, and no third-party tracking.

That includes anything you write in Waypoint. Your entries are never sent anywhere but your own iCloud, they’re never included when you share or export a project, and they don’t appear in system search.

Where is my data stored?

On your device, and — if you enable sync — in your private iCloud account. We never store your planning content on our own servers. See our Privacy Policy for details.

I used the original DayMap. Can I bring my data across?

Yes, on the Mac — this arrived in a recent update, and if you asked before and were told no, that answer is out of date.

Open DayMap on your Mac, go to Settings and look for "Coming from DayMap 2?". Choose your old data file and DayMap shows you exactly what it will bring before it brings anything — how many projects and tasks it found, and what it can't carry across. Nothing already in DayMap is changed or deleted, a backup of your current data is saved first, and importing the same file twice won't make copies of everything.

Some things don't survive the move, and DayMap lists them rather than letting you discover them later: tags, attachments, reminders, project colors, and any repeat schedule it doesn't recognize. Your projects, tasks, subtasks, notes, dates and completed items all come across.

The import runs on the Mac only. If you use iCloud sync, import there and everything arrives on your iPhone and iPad on its own. Without a Mac, there isn't a way to do this yet — email us and tell us, because that's the kind of thing that decides what gets built next.

The purchase is a separate question, and there the answer is still no. Because this is a rebuild, it's a separate app with its own App Store listing, and it has no way to see a purchase made under the original one. If you bought the original DayMap years ago, that's a real thing and we'd rather you told us than assumed it counted for nothing — email us.

Your old app and everything in it are untouched either way. Installing the new DayMap doesn't remove or alter anything, so you can keep the original around while you settle in. If you'd like a hand, email support@daymapapp.com.

How do I back up my data?

Two separate things cover you here. Your DayMap data is included in your regular device and iCloud backups, alongside everything else on your device.

Separately, DayMap keeps its own backups — snapshots you can restore from inside the app, and export to Files or iCloud Drive on iPhone and iPad. See the answers below for how those work.

Does DayMap back up my data?

Yes. DayMap automatically saves a copy of your projects and tasks on your device as you use it, and keeps the recent ones. You can also save one anytime from Settings → Backups → Back Up Now. This is separate from iCloud sync: sync keeps your devices matched, while a backup is a snapshot you can go back to if something gets deleted or goes wrong.

Where are my backups, and do you get a copy?

They stay on your device — they are never sent to us and are not part of iCloud sync. On Mac you can reveal them in Finder; on iPhone and iPad you can export one to save it somewhere else, like Files or iCloud Drive.

How do I restore a backup?

Go to Settings → Backups → Restore from Backup, pick one, and DayMap shows you exactly what it will do before anything changes. By default, restoring only adds back what's missing — it never deletes what you already have — and it saves a fresh backup of your current data first, just in case.

If you also switch on Also undo changes since this backup, anything you've edited since is rewritten to match the backup. With that on, DayMap won't go ahead unless the backup of your current data saves first. If a restore doesn't work, DayMap says so.

How do I get help?

Email support@daymapapp.com any time — we typically respond within 1–2 business days. It helps to include your device and OS version, the version of DayMap you're using, and a short description of what happened and what you expected.

I found a bug / I have a feature request.

We'd love to hear it. Email support@daymapapp.com with as much detail as you can. Feature requests genuinely shape what we build next.