How it works
Five surfaces, one loop
Capture → clarify → organize → act → review. Every screen in DailyCanvas belongs to one step of that loop.
Board — see it
Your app home is a wall of four whiteboards: Do Next, Active Work, Life Map, and Can Wait. The front board holds the single highest-ranked open action; the others keep active work, responsibilities, and parked things visible without crowding it. An empty wall says so.
Capture — drop it
Quick Dump is on every private page. It writes a note capture immediately, with no required fields, no category, and no forced responsibility. A capture can sit unassigned until you have somewhere real to put it.
Triage is three explicit choices: Task turns it into an action, Reference keeps it as a record, Archive puts it away. Nothing resolves itself silently.
If the workspace has been given a Poe key, a Draft with AI button appears on each item. It suggests one of the three choices and prefills the task form. You still press the button that saves; the draft never does.
Life Map — name what you actually hold
A focal point is one responsibility: a job, a household, a health thread, a side project. You name them yourself. There are no starter templates, because a generated list of responsibilities is someone else's life, not yours.
Focal points move through a lifecycle — active, dormant, retired — so putting something down is a first-class action rather than a deletion.
Do Next and Work — move
Do Next shows the ranked NOW item with three lenses over the same list: Focus, Scan, and Survival. Survival narrows to what is late or what someone is waiting on. Work is the full list of actions and projects, where you edit titles, first steps, due dates and priority.
Ranking is one shared rule used everywhere: due or overdue first, then external pressure, then priority, then newest. Overdue means the due calendar day has already passed. Due today is pressure, not failure.
Review and Audit — close the loop
A daily review records three things: wins, friction, and tomorrow's anchor. Alongside it you see a derived count of open captures and open actions, so the review is grounded in real state. The weekly summary is derived from the same document — nothing is typed twice.
Audit is read-only. It names what drifted: captures older than seven days, responsibilities with no activity, a missing review, a pile of overdue dates. It never edits anything.
Find and My Data
Find is a plain text filter across captures, actions and focal points. My Data downloads your entire workspace as JSON, whenever you want, without asking anyone.