Household Ledger · Daily Command

What deserves human attention next?

Daily Command is the household operating and attention surface. It coordinates the day and near-term week without becoming the system of record.

Primary question: What needs my attention, why does it matter, when does it matter, what should I do next, and where does the real work live?

Permanent areas: Morning · Today · This Week · Calendar. Waiting, Scheduled, Reviews, and Completed remain capabilities or states, but no longer require permanent tabs.

Four permanent areas

Current navigation contract

Morning

Orient me before I begin.

Briefing and setup.

Morning Status
Important Email Briefing
Morning Ritual
Today at a Glance
Fixed commitments
Command Intake
Plan My Day
Start My Day

Today

Run the active day.

Main operating workspace.

Fire Focus
Required Activity
Consequential work
Resurfaced waits
Actual vs planned
Completed today
Quick Capture
Re-plan From Now

This Week

Prepare before things become emergencies.

Near-term planning and capacity.

Deadlines
Preparation
Important-not-urgent work
Resurfacing waits/reviews
Week capacity
Completed this week
Plan My Week

Calendar

What does time look like?

Spatial time system.

Month / Week / Day / Agenda
Appointments
Commitment envelopes
Scheduled blocks
Deadlines / financial events
Day Briefing

36 expected capabilities

Expanded baseline

A · Morning and start-of-day

1Morning Briefing

Important email, consequential work, fixed commitments, resurfacing items, risks and useful context.

2Morning Status

Concise sense of the day before committing to a plan.

3Morning Ritual

Move, Read, Reflect, Connect, Deep Work; configurable.

4Today at a Glance

Three to five consequential items plus fixed-time commitments.

5Plan My Day

Guided workflow: anchor → fixed day → must move → make room → contain → what can wait → preview → begin.

6Start My Day

Transitions Morning into the active Today workspace.

B · Operate Today

7Today Workspace

Main operating surface for current work and current context.

8Unified Action Cards

What, why, when, next action and owning source.

9Source Publishing Feed

Sources publish only when a person must act; stable links and dedupe.

10Priority Engine

Consequence before chronology.

11Fire Focus

Personal focus separate from system severity.

12Due Soon / Resurfaced Attention

Bring items back only when actionable or consequential.

C · Real-world scheduling and capacity

13Flexible Day Start

Begin when the user actually starts.

14Soft Day End

Target end time can move deliberately.

15Required Activity

Targets an amount of activity such as hours, calls or leads.

16Commitment Envelopes

Prep + travel + event + onward/return travel + optional recovery.

17Cross-System Work Publishing

Agency Command, Venture Command, Household Ledger and calendars publish into one day model.

18Remaining-Capacity Replanning

Recalculate what still matters and what still fits.

19Re-plan From Now

Rebuild only the remaining day while preserving actual work.

20Location-Aware Travel Context

Eventually compute current location → A → B → next destination.

D · Week-level planning

21This Week Workspace

Preparation, deadlines, appointments, reviews, maintenance, documents and capacity.

22Plan My Week

Guided weekly planning and preview.

23Importance × Urgency Lens

Must Protect · Make Room · Contain · Not Today, used behind the workflow rather than as four backlogs.

E · Embedded states

24Waiting / Resurface State

Source-owned waiting leaves active attention until a trigger makes it actionable again.

25Review-Type Attention

Review remains distinct but surfaces only when due.

26Completed Today / This Week

Recent closure appears contextually then falls into source history.

F · Calendar and time

27Unified Calendar

Month, Week, Day and Agenda with distinct overlays.

28Day Detail & Day Briefing

Appointments, prep, travel, risks, conflicts, free windows and suggested sequence.

29Appointment Management

Create, reschedule, complete and link appointments.

30Calendar Integration

Connect outside calendars and respond to external changes.

G · Communications, capture and evidence

31Important Email Briefing

Only mail that actually needs a person.

32Email → Attention

Create linked attention without losing the thread.

33Email Attachment → Binder

Preserve accepted attachments as canonical evidence.

34Quick Capture / Command Intake

Capture first; route afterward.

H · Learn, close and stay quiet

35Actual Activity & Plan-vs-Actual

Record what actually happened, including unplanned-but-valuable work, and use it to improve future planning.

36Evening Close + Noise Prevention

Optional closeout while suppressing routine success, duplicates and non-actionable noise.

Demoted permanent tabs

Capabilities remain; navigation does not

DEMOTED

Waiting

Owned in Matters/communications/source records; resurfaces into Today or This Week when actionable.

DEMOTED

Scheduled

This Week and Calendar/Agenda cover it without a duplicate destination.

DEMOTED

Reviews

Review is an action type surfaced contextually when due.

DEMOTED

Completed

Show completed today and this week, then preserve permanent history in the owning source.

Design guardrails

Must survive redesigns

Complexity belongs behind the workflow

Show only what is needed for the current decision.

Not a task manager

Tasks are one representation of attention.

Not a system of record

The owning source remains authoritative.

Consequence before chronology

Serious later work may outrank trivial sooner work.

Waiting disappears until useful

Inactive waits do not clutter Morning or Today.

Plan before mutate

Recommend before moving meaningful commitments.

Record deviation; do not punish it

Actual work changes the plan instead of producing artificial lateness.

Preserve real-world occupancy

Travel, preparation and transitions consume time.

Quiet is success

A clear Daily Command should feel caught up.

Daily Command Capability Map V2 · August 2026. Four permanent areas; guided day/week planning; Eisenhower lens; Required Activity; Commitment Envelopes; flexible day boundaries; actual-vs-planned work; source-owned waiting/review/completion.