Activities

Activities are things you do regularly that are never “done”.

Activities have special properties within Day Optimizer:

• Never Overdue
  Activities can never be overdue and undone activities won’t roll over to the next day. If you miss “Lunch” one day, you don’t need to eat two lunches tomorrow.
  
  
• Automatically Repeating
  Activities are ongoing. You are never “done” eating lunch. There’s no need to set them up as repeating; you simply specify which days you do the activity. When you check off an activity for the day, you are marking it done for that day, not done forever. So you’ll never lose track of your regular activities.
  
  
• Always a Fresh Start
  Each day your activity starts anew. You get to decide whether to commit to doing the activity, and whether you do the activity or not won’t affect any other days. With the Notes field, you can record separate notes each time you commit to an activity, including separate checkbox lists.

When To Use Activities

Use activities for anything that takes up time in your day that you do regular, but isn’t a task or appointment, such as:

• Regular Activities
  Things you do regularly like eating meals, doing chores, taking breaks or your morning routine.
  
  
• Time Blocks
  Blocks of time you want to schedule in your day for tasks you track in another system. Time blocks can be discipline-focused like Marketing or Product Development, or context-focused like Process Email or Do House Maintenance.
  
  
• Habits
  Habits you want to create or maintain like meditating or exercising. Day Optimizer doesn’t have a way yet to visualize your track record, but each time you create a commitment, you’re creating the data that will be used for this later on.

Activities are an often overlooked part of time management, so just including these in your daily planning will go a long way toward getting more done.