💡Productivity Pro-Tip#6💡
We need strict time budgets on our tasks to not fall short at other areas of our lives.
You can assign a time budget to each of your tasks by:
- pressing and holding 'SHIFT'
- while using 'H'(◀)️ and 'L'(▶)️ to increase or decrease.
💡Productivity Pro-Tip#2💡
Fixed appointments and events in our days act as natural time-boundaries for our working blocks. 📅
We need to be well-aware of them to craft realistic plans.
To create a new event in the day timeline
- press 'NN',
- enter a title,
- hit 'Enter'.
💡Productivity Pro-Tip#1💡
DayCaptain has a powerful keyboard concept based on vim-keybindings.
It allows you to interact with it magically fast 🪄, and is fun. 🎮
Pressing '?' on any focused element of the app, gives you a context dependent help to find the right shortcut.
💡Productivity Pro-Tip#5💡
As we realize that we cannot get everything done, we need to prioritize our tasks strictly.
Order your tasks in the DayCaptain task list by
- pressing and holding 'ALT'
- while using 'J' (🔽) and 'K' (🔼) to move them up or down in the list.
💡Productivity Pro-Tip#4💡
You can easily select the day on the day view of DayCaptain:
- press 'Q' to focus the day picker
- use 'J/K/H/L' to move around.
It's much like flicking through your diary.
💡Productivity Pro-Tip#20💡
✅ It's easy to create tasks for you habits in DayCaptain.
🔁 DayCaptain has a feature for that: repeated tasks.
When creating a task
- hit 'R'
- use 'J/K/H/L' to select the interval.
💡Productivity Pro-Tip#18💡
You can create Projects in DayCaptain to get detailed statistics and coloring.
To assign a task or event to a project:
- Press ','
- and use 'J/K' to select the project.
💡Productivity Pro-Tip#7💡
⏰ We need to allocate actual time slots in our days to our tasks.
💤 Otherwise, they remain just 'wishful thinking'.
To schedule a task in your day
- press 'NR' on the selected task
- set start and end time in the overlay.
💡Productivity Pro-Tip#10💡
✅ Nothing is more satisfying than checking-off tasks in our days, which we have accomplished.
In the task list
- ✅ hit 'ENTER' to finish a task
- 🚫 hit 'X' to cancel a task
- ↩️ hit 'Backspace' to reset the task state.
💡Productivity Pro-Tip#20💡
✅ It's easy to create tasks for you habits in DayCaptain.
🔁 DayCaptain has a feature for that: repeated tasks.
When creating a task
- hit 'R'
- use 'J/K/H/L' to select the interval.
💡Productivity Pro-Tip#9💡
You can set the duration (end time) of an event directly in the timeline without using your mouse.
Press and hold 'SHIFT' while using 'J/K/H/L' to lengthen or shorten your event.
J ⬇️️ / K ⬆️ => move 1 hour.
H ⬅️ / L ➡️ => move 15 min.
💡Productivity Pro-Tip#6💡
We need strict time budgets on our tasks to not fall short at other areas of our lives.
You can assign a time budget to each of your tasks by:
- pressing and holding 'SHIFT'
- while using 'H'(◀)️ and 'L'(▶)️ to increase or decrease.
💡Productivity Pro-Tip#3💡
To work focused, we need to be specific about what we want to accomplish each day.
To create a new task in the day task list
- press 'NN',
- enter a title,
- hit 'Enter'.
💡Productivity Pro-Tip#15💡
One of the most powerful things of using DayCaptain is to get beautiful statistics about how we spend our time.
Press 'C' on the day or week view to see the statistics.
💡Productivity Pro-Tip#16💡
DayCaptain allows you to go into focus mode.⚡️
You can filter by area or project to see only what's relevant at the moment.
Press '\' and select the area or project to filter by.
💡Productivity Pro-Tip#18💡
You can create Projects in DayCaptain to get detailed statistics and coloring.
To assign a task or event to a project:
- Press ','
- and use 'J/K' to select the project.