Daily rituals (morning planning, evening review)
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Chris
Ability for Ellie to guide you through certain routines (morning planning, Braindump cleaning, etc...)
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Chris
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Daily shutdown is now live on web/desktop :)
You can also enable notifications by going to Notifications (if on desktop)
iOS coming soon 🤞
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Ben Liebich
Chris This is great!!! Thank you!
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San
This is great!
Chris
Daily planning is now available in the latest version!
You can enable it in the power feature menu :)
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give me any feedback you have. Would love to make improvements!N
Nienke
Chris Exciting!
A few nits regarding the copy:
"Let's review yesterdays work ✍️" ➝ yesterday's
"Lets add some tasks you need to get done today. " ➝ Let's
"Lets finalize your day" ➝ Let's
"If you're somebody who like to timebox," ➝ likes
I think it would also be neat if there were a keyboard shortcut to start a daily planning session, so I don't have to dig around in the menu :)
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Eric B
Chris Nice addition! Thank you Chris for the good work :)
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Yese
Chris woohoo you go this feature out fast! can’t wait to try it out!
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ktrine
Chris So exciting!! How do we update the Mac app to test this out? Should we just reinstall the app?
Chris
Nienke Ah very good catches, just pushed an update to fix all of this :)
Also new keyboard shortcut added (CTRL/CMD + Shift + P) should let you start the session (and exit)
Thank you for this!
Chris
Eric B Thank you Eric :)
Chris
Yese Luckily wasn't too bad! Let me know if you have any feedback :)
Chris
ktrine It should auto update after a few hours BUT you can also just completely restart the app (right click the icon and select "Force Quit" which will download the new update)
Let me know if you have issues!
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Yese
Chris I enjoyed using it. It's exactly what I already do for my workday startup routine but now it's built into Ellie! I do wish it just automatically came up the first time I opened Ellie for the day.
I am looking forward to the evening review feature too :) I do a workday shutdown that I suspect that feature might replace :)
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Scott Henning
Chris Couple suggestions for UX improvements attached.
Chris
Scott Henning both great suggestions, will implement!
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Marc
Chris I’m new here and initially trying mobile iOS only. Is this feature missing from the mobile app? I can’t see it in the power feature menu.
Chris
in progress
Beginning work on this one today 👀
Starting with daily planning
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Yese
Chris yay. Looking forward to this one!
I volunteer as tribute to test this feature!
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Dariya
Chris SO excited about this, seriously life changing! :)
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Alli
Yess!
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Brad
Awesome. Time to cancel my Sunsama subscription. After 2 days with Ellie i'm already converted. Thanks for your hard work Chris!
Chris
Brad Appreciate that Brad! :)
Chris
under review
Exploring this now :)
Will likely start with morning planning, would love to hear what this could look like from people!
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Leo
Chris: awesome!!!!! Can’t wait for this feature :)
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Chris B
Chris: Hey so I think Sunsama's is supposedly the best. Akiflow has a sort of low-fi recreation of it that's OK. It's a two-stage process. First it shows you 3 things about yesterday in columns. first a graphical breakdown of what work you did by type, then a big column of the list of completed tasks, finally tasks that didn't get done that'll be moved to today. (You can see some of that at this link: https://akiflow.com/features/rituals/.) Then you jump to the second page of daily planning (example here: https://akiflow.com/blog/morning-rituals/#:~:text=Daily%20Planning%20Ritual&text=Akiflow%20also%20provides%20a%20feature,your%20goals%20for%20the%20day) and it's again 3 columns. First is the list of scheduled events, then a column for your inbox (in Ellie it'd be the brain dump) then finally the tasks you've already scheduled for today. And the fourth column, sort of, is your calendar of today. So you process your inbox, then drag tasks from today to calendar. Then done. I actually wish they didn't cram inbox and today tasks into one view but otherwise I enjoy the routinization. Hope that helps!
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Mike
Chris: Reeaaaallllyyyyy want this feature. Sunsama does it very well imo. I like that it shows you which tasks you didn't complete and what you already have assigned for that day, then you can go and add tasks to that day's tasks and drag tasks into the timebox. I also like that it allows you to assign the tasks to that week's goals, and at the beginning of the week set those goals. I also like that it allows you to write what your obstacles might be - would be even better to be able to write what opportunities you have that you can take to make the day successful.
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alli
Chris: yayyy!!! I’ve been waiting for this feature! sunsama does it so well, starting off with new tasks to write, option to move them to another day if necessary, etc. so excited.
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Chris: I just saw that Skedpal updated their calendar - and it has an interesting interface that could be used for daily checklists and/or multi-step tasks. They call this "bundles" and essentially they show checkbox lists right on the calendar. Skedpal is WAY too complex for my usage in general, but I do like the way they handle the grouping of "little" tasks. Their full redesign video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYMaH1Q2eag and the part about bundles starts around 4:10 or so.
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Dan
Chris: I do my planning the evening before rather than in the morning. I would love to be able tot have the planning session the evening before.
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Milyza
Love this idea - my "getting started" and "closing the day" rituals are sooo important but I find really hard to initiate/follow!
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Leo
yes please! Its something i need to do every day and the more help i get with it the better.
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Mike
Leo: ^
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Yes, please! I love this about Sunsama.
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