What should I be doing now?
Today is the active operating workspace. It keeps the current focus, remaining commitments, required activity, changes, actual work, and completed items visible without turning into a full backlog.
Where the day stands
Fire Focus
🔥🔥🔥 IRS professional call
This is the next consequential human action. The real record remains in Matters.
Now & Next
Call · record outcome · create follow-up only if needed.
Prep → travel → 2:00 PM job → return ~4:00 PM.
Resume Required Activity if the field job returns on time.
Required Activity
Life insurance dialing
1h completed · 3h remaining of 4h target.
Incoming TV lead response
30m completed · 30m remaining.
Resurfaced attention
Vendor follow-up is due
Previous response window expired. Handle today or choose a new follow-up date.
What changed?
The remaining insurance dialing target may no longer fit before the 6:00 PM family commitment.
Actual work
Household Ledger development
9:02–11:12 · 2h 10m · unplanned but valuable.
Completed today
Move + Reflect completed.
TV mounting appointment confirmed.
2h 10m actual work logged.
Quick Capture
Workflows on Today
Begin / Complete Current Work
Start the selected action, record an outcome, complete it, or return to the owning source.
Re-plan From Now
Preserve actual work and rebuild only the remainder of the day when reality changes.
Required Activity Logging
Log time or activity against a daily target and recalculate what remains.
Actual Activity Logging
Record planned or unplanned work, including useful deviation from the plan.
Resurfaced Item Follow-up
Act, reopen the source, or return an item to waiting with a new trigger.
Commitment Envelope Handoff
Transition into prep/travel/appointment/return context as a fixed commitment approaches.
Quick Capture / Command Intake
Capture new information without breaking the current work sequence.
Completed-Today Review
See recent closure, reopen when necessary, then allow items to leave the active surface.
Evening Close
Optional later-day workflow for what closed, what moves, and what tomorrow needs.