Cue now has planning mode.
Although it’s quite simple, it’s the first feature that distinguishes Cue from a typical todo app.
But first, lets go back in time.
In the ancient past – say, the mid ’90’s – people would plan their day using a day planner: a paper planner with a single page (or maybe two) per day.
They would write down their tasks, and have a separate section for appointments.
When it was time to plan the next day, this ancient planning person would copy over any unfinished tasks, possibly recording all kinds of information, like whether a task was completed, forwarded to a new day, deleted, or delegated to someone else.
All by hand.
It was a more complicated time.
As the modern day approached, the way people handled tasks was simplified. But not always for the better.
Rather than planning the day, and being both deliberate and flexible, they started throwing all tasks into todo lists.
These became giant buckets of all the things they might someday do.
It solved some problems. No longer were tasks manually copied from one day to the next.
But they lost the value that comes from checking in each day, connecting to their long term goals, and thinking carefully about how they wanted the day to go.
Cue recaptures the value in the ancient ways, while also taking advantage of modern simplicity.
So.
You plan each day.
When you do, you get a side-by-side view of yesterday’s plan as well as today’s. Or today’s and tomorrow’s, if you’re planning tomorrow the night before.
And you can easily drag items from the old plan to the new one.
Or just reference the structure of the day, so you can consider what worked and didn’t while planning the next.
Of course, there is a lot more coming to planning mode in Cue (ticklers!), but it’s there and you can use it now.