Plan Tomorrow
As I was flipping through a yearly-planner/diary today — one of the many New Year presents one rarely uses — something crossed my mind.
Diaries, by nature, are there to help you remember and recall your past. Memiary, as a quintessential ‘online’ diary, wants to help you do exactly that. But the absoluteness of a real-life diary, as opposed to Memiary, allows you to cheat and skip to any date in the future — essentially using it as a planner. The diary manufacturers market this as a ‘feature’ (it’s a diary, but it’s also a meeting planner! And a calendar! And a to-do list!).
As an aside, for the last two months or so, I’ve been using TextEdit on the Mac to keep a simple 3 - 5 item to-do list. In the list, I have important things noted which I need to remember to do for tomorrow. It can be ‘Watch Bruno’, or ‘Pick up bread.’ These are not things I want to do today or right now, and they’re not months in the future I want to put in iCal.
So, when I was looking at the static diary on the table, I had a flash: what if Memiary could be used to plan tomorrow — just tomorrow? This would make it a simple 5-item todo-list, while still keeping its basic essence alive: to remember your past. And also, since I know most of the things I’ll be doing tomorrow (especially if they’re important ones), it begs the question: why not just enter it today?
Another thing it does is bring the 5-item simplicity to to-do lists. Never before has a todo-list been limited to a specific day (tomorrow) and a specific number of items (5). So, it’s a constraint worth attempting. I don’t want to spend 10 minutes planning 10 things I need to do right now, but I can spare a couple to find 5 or less for tomorrow.
With that said, Memiary has now be used to plan tomorrow. When you log in, you will now see that tomorrow is clickable on the date bar (i.e. Wed Thu Fri Sat San Mon Tue Wed). When you click on it, you’re posed with the question, “What will you do tomorrow?”, and the same 5-item list Memiary is known for. You can enter things today, and of course, come and change or add to them tomorrow.
Something to note is that this functionality is not currently available on the iPhone app, but it will be in the 2.0 version, coming soon given that things go our way.
2 years ago