{"id":619,"date":"2025-02-14T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T09:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/?post_type=docs&p=619"},"modified":"2025-02-14T10:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:40:41","password":"","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/docs\/mobile-good-day\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello, and welcome to \u2018Good Day\u2019<\/em>, the personal planning system from software vendor Essays In Software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Good Day\u2019 is a personal planning software application designed for people seeking help with aligning their individual goals, tasks and habits to improve how and what they achieve in their life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In designing and building \u2018Good Day\u2019, the intention was to service three specific objectives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objective #1 – deliver context. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many different and competent software products that support various aspects of the personal planning process, such as goal planning, task\/to-to-list management, and habit tracking.   Yet most of these apps fail to deliver the context necessary to enable a proper and full understanding of the activity they support. Hence, many goal-setting apps will lack features to define and track goal delivery\/manifestation; task\/to-do list apps lack the big picture, so task relative importance or interdependence is missed, and habit-tracking apps lack the context to set behavioural challenges against personal goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With \u2018Good Day,\u2019 context setting is at the core of the product, providing a clear method for integrating goals, tasks, plans, and habits into a personal plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Object #2 – support reflection and improvement with personal planning methods.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making a successful personal plan is about establishing a practical, repeatable method for prioritisation and work assignment that fits the individual’s work and the resource\/time constraints they face. This evolves and adapts over time, requiring a facility to reflect on the challenges of the planning process. To achieve that, you need a facility to reflect on the outcomes of your planning cycles so that lessons can be learnt and a more accurate view can be applied going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With \u2018Good Day,\u2019 the user can employ a variety of review processes to reflect on the success or shortfall of their planning assumptions and then learn from those to make more realistic plans going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objective #3 \u2013 data presentation personalisation.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not everybody shares the same view of how information should be presented. For example, with task\/to-do list management, some people like to view a simple list, while others prefer a calendar view of tasks, and others might favour a \u2018Kanban\u2019 style view of work by status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than forcing one data presentation solution, with \u2018Good Day\u2019, the product offers a high degree of UX personalisation so that product UI can be configured to show information most effectively and productively that best suits the user and their current practices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In summary, these three objectives provide a unique set of features that distinguish \u2018Good Day\u2019 from the existing market offerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feature set<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The \u2018Good Day\u2019 product offers a comprehensive set of features to support personal goal setting, task management, planning and habit tracking.    The integration between these different features is an essential aspect of the product\u2019s value, but the user is free to employ just the features that are important to them at the time.  This allows for gradual adoption of the product, reducing the learning curve and leading to immediate productivity gains<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feature summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Goal planning
    • Goal setting and scheduling<\/li><\/ul>
      • Good action plan definition<\/li><\/ul>\n
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        • Goal metric definition and progress tracking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Habits
          • Habit definition and progress tracking<\/li><\/ul>\n
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            • Linking habits to goal objectives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Tasks
              • Task definition and task list presentation across a wider variety of different viewing options<\/li><\/ul>
                • Task search<\/li><\/ul>
                  • Recurring tasks<\/li><\/ul>
                    • Task effort breakdown via checklists<\/li><\/ul>\n
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                      • Task linking to goals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                      • Journalling<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                      • Planning
                        • Define plans at a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or 12-week interval<\/li><\/ul>
                          • Track plan progress over time<\/li><\/ul>\n
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                            • View plan outcomes and record observations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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