Record your time

A Record is the time you actually spent — as opposed to a Plan, which is the time you intended to spend. Dayopt keeps these two separate: Plans live in their own lane on the calendar, Records live in another. Nothing becomes a Record automatically; you decide what gets recorded.

Where a Record comes from

A Record is independent whether you create it directly or copy a Plan. Editing, moving, or deleting it never changes a Plan.

Turning a Plan into a Record

Once a Plan's time has passed, it stays an unrecorded Plan until you do one of the following:

Creating a Record directly

You don't have to start from a Plan. Create a timeblock on the calendar for a time range that has already ended, and Dayopt saves it as a Record by default. The rule is simple: if the end time is in the future, it's a Plan; if it's now or in the past, it's a Record. For a past time range you can still switch the new timeblock to a Plan from the tab at the top of the panel, for example to keep a note of what you had intended to do. A future time range always becomes a Plan. The label on the timeblock updates by itself as you adjust the time.

Comparing Plans and Records

The calendar displays overlapping Plans and Records side by side. To see one activity’s recent recorded time and Records, open activity details from the calendar.

You can freely edit a past Plan's time, activity, or note — editing it doesn't turn it into a Record.

Editing a Record

Click any Record to open the Inspector, where you can adjust:

• Activity and note — same fields as a Plan
• Start / end time — since a Record reflects something that already happened, you're free to correct it

Next Steps

1. Plans — Learn how to schedule what you intend to do
2. What is Dayopt? — See how Plans and Records fit together on the calendar