Getting started
The first few minutes with Make My Day: grant access, choose what to show, set a goal, and shape your first day.
Make My Day sits on top of the calendars and reminders you already use. There’s nothing to import and no account to create — you’ll be planning within a couple of minutes.
1. Grant access to Calendar and Reminders
On first launch, Make My Day asks for access to your Calendar and Reminders. It needs this to show your real schedule and tasks. Nothing is deleted or changed without your action, and nothing is sent anywhere.
2. Choose which calendars and lists to show
You probably have more calendars and reminder lists than you want in a daily plan — work, private, shared, subscribed. Pick the ones that belong in your day; leave the rest out. You can change this at any time.
Three things about this choice that save a puzzled moment later:
- It is per device. Your Mac and your iPhone can legitimately show different sets, and that is often what you want — the work calendar on the Mac, not on the phone at the weekend. If the two look different, nothing is broken.
- New calendars and lists appear switched on. Something you add later shows up ready to use rather than hidden until you find the setting. If you deliberately switched something off, that stays off; the app doesn’t quietly undo your decision.
- Added an account since you opened the app? Add or remove Calendar and Reminders accounts in your system settings as usual, then use Refresh here — the new account appears without restarting Make My Day.
3. Set your first goal
Add a goal that matters to you. It can be short-term or long-term — a result this month, an ambition years out, or simply a way you want to live. Give it a colour so you can recognise it at a glance.
4. Name today’s outcome
At the top of the day, write the outcome that would make today a success — one plain sentence. This sets the tone for everything below it.
5. Shape the day
Drag a task from your backlog onto the timeline, or leave it untimed. Link the tasks that serve a goal, and let the rest wait. When you’re done, close the app — it won’t ask for you again until you come back.
That’s the whole loop: choose what to show → set goals → name the outcome → shape the day. From here, the feature pages explain Goals and how your privacy is handled.