What is Today's Plan?

Today’s Plan is our goal-setting tool. Use it each day to get clear on your priorities and make a realistic plan for the day ahead. First, you’ll set your most important goals, and then you’ll “Zoom-in” to get clarity on them.

Today's Plan key features

• 5-goal limit

Ah, the age-old question: “Why do we limit you to 5 goals each day?”

The reason is… when we strive to complete our long to-do list instead of focusing on just our most important goals — it’s kind of like trying to run a race where you keep adjusting the finish line throughout the day. It’s very frustrating, overwhelming, and discouraging.

Fun fact: Humans have a universal cognitive quirk of underestimating how long things will take. Researchers have deemed it the “planning fallacy.” With this in mind, see what it feels like to set fewer goals, and remember — you can always add more throughout the day if you find that you’re finishing things quicker than expected! 

• Estimating time

Figuring out how long things are going to take is notoriously difficult. While it might take some trial and error to figure out how close your estimations tend to be, our app will get you in the habit of thinking about time, and blocking off space on your calendar to knock out your goals.

• Pomodoro Method

When you estimate time, you can do so in minutes, or in “Pomodoros” — the Italian word for Tomato.

The Pomodoro Technique is a time management technique developed in the late 1980s by Francesco Cirillo, a university student who was trying to get more studying done in less time. 

Francesco would use a tomato-shaped timer to break his work into 25-minute chunks and then take a 5-min break between them. 

The idea behind segmenting your time like this is to move through a larger project in more bite-sized time chunks, stave off mental fatigue with built-in breaks, and limit distractions like your phone with shorter periods of focused time. 

• Sub-tasks

Some goals have a lot of smaller parts! After you set a goal, you’ll be able to create “sub-tasks” for them in the “Zoom-in” section.

• Goal Rollover

Sometimes we don’t finish everything we want to in a day, and that’s just the reality. But not to worry — Today’s Plan will remember the things you wanted to get done yesterday. You’ll be able to rollover goals from a previous day, or from your “Brain Dump” (more on that later!)

✨ Focused pro-tips and best practices ✨

Jump right into a Community Session or Power Hour session after setting your goals. We make it easy to dive right in with a prompt that shows sessions that are happening now and keep your momentum going!