Beta guide
Order puts your day on one index card: the five things that matter most, plus one more. The basics come first, then everything else. It takes about five minutes.
Part one
Five steps for every day, plus one more that makes you quick.
The first time you open Order on a device with nothing in it yet, a short welcome explains the whole idea in four lines.
Tap Start Today's Card to add your first task, or close it to look around first. You can read it again any time: tap then How Order Works.
Open Order and you see today's card. It has room for the five things that matter most today, plus one more. Everything else waits below.
Tap at the bottom of the screen, or tap an empty line on the card. Type the task, then tap Add Task.
While the card has room, a new task goes on the next free line. Once the card is full, new tasks go to the top of A.
Before you add it, you can choose its priority, a list, a later day, a reminder or a repeat. To add several tasks at once, paste a list with one task on each line.
Tap a line's number when it's done. A red line strikes it through and the number turns into a check. Now is always the first line that isn't done, so it moves on as you go.
Done lines stay on the card for the rest of the day, so you can see what you got through. Changed your mind? Tap the check to bring the task back.
Finishing, adding, deleting and moving a task to Later all offer Undo for a few seconds. You can also shake your iPhone to undo.
Up Next holds your other open tasks, in priority order: A, then B, then C. Tap a task's to move it onto today's card.
Tap a task's circle to finish it without putting it on the card. It's crossed off, leaves Up Next, and still counts, as “1 MORE” at the top of the card.
Tap a task's name to open it. Then you can:
Swipe down to close it.
Once the basics feel natural, these make you quick. Finishing, deleting and Later offer Undo here too. To undo a drag, drag the task back.
Part two
Order keeps today small on purpose. Here's where everything else goes.
Five lines is the point: it keeps today honest. If you star a task when the card is full, it waits at the top of A while Order asks what to swap.
Not for today? Swipe left on a task and tap Later. Pick a quick choice like Tomorrow or Next Week, or tap Choose a Date… for any day you like.
A line on today's card moves to that day's card. A task in Up Next steps aside, then comes back to its place on that day. To see what's waiting, tap “tasks for later” at the bottom of Up Next, or tap More › Later. Lines you moved to tomorrow are on tomorrow's card.
Tap to flip to tomorrow's card and plan it the night before. While it's showing, stars and new tasks land on tomorrow's card. Tap the button again to come back to today.
To take a line off tomorrow's card, swipe left on it and tap Up Next.
Cross off all five and the Plus One, and the card says so: Five for five, plus one.
At midnight, Order starts a new card. Anything you didn't finish moves over in the same order, and finished lines clear away. Lines you planned for that day come next. If more than five are waiting, the extras go to the top of A.
Keep work and home apart. Tap + List under Up Next and name your list. Up Next then shows just that list, so it may look empty at first. Tap a list's name to see only its tasks, or All to see everything. Today's card always shows everything.
New tasks go in the list you're looking at. To move a task, open it and tap a list's name. To rename, reorder or delete lists, tap then Lists. Deleting a list keeps its tasks.
Part three
Order is free for up to 10 open tasks. Pro adds unlimited tasks, reminders, repeating tasks and import.
Free holds 10 open tasks, and finished ones don't count. At 10, nothing locks: you can still see, finish, move and delete every task, and finishing one frees a spot.
To get Pro, tap then Order Pro. On a Mac, choose Order › Order Pro. One subscription covers your iPhone, iPad and Mac.
In TestFlight, buying Pro costs nothing. It's for testing only, and it doesn't carry over to the App Store version.
Open a task, and under Remind Me, tap In an Hour, This Evening (6 PM) or Tomorrow Morning (9 AM). Or tap Time…, pick a day and time, and tap Remind Me. The time shows under the task's name.
A reminder is only a nudge. It never moves the task. When it goes off, tap it to open the task, or touch and hold it for Done, In an Hour and Tomorrow. The last two move the reminder, not the task.
The first time you set a reminder, Order asks to send you notifications. Tap Allow.
Open a task, and under Repeat, choose Daily, Weekdays, Weekly, Monthly or Yearly. Weekly lets you pick the days.
When you finish a repeating task, the next one waits in Later until its day, then comes back at the top of its priority. To skip one, open it and tap Skip under Mark Done.
Bring your tasks from another app. Tap then Import and Export, and choose From Reminders or From a File: a spreadsheet saved as CSV, or a text or Markdown list. On a Mac, choose File › Import.
Order shows what it will add before it adds anything. Imported tasks go into Up Next, never onto today's card, and Undo takes them all back out.
Part four
Add and finish tasks without opening Order, and take your card to your iPad and Mac.
Tap to find any task by a word in its name or note, including tasks you've finished. Results come in the app's own order: today's card, tomorrow's, then A, B, C, Later and Done.
Tap a result's number or circle to finish it right there, or tap its name to open it.
Put today's card on your Home Screen: touch and hold an empty spot until the apps jiggle, tap Edit, then Add Widget, and choose Order.
Tap a number on the widget to cross it off without opening Order. On the medium and large widgets, tap to add a task. After 8 PM, the widget shows tomorrow's card. There are Lock Screen widgets too.
Say Add to Order,
and Siri asks what the task is. Ask What's on my Order card?
to hear today's card. You can also say Finish a task in Order
or Move a task to tomorrow in Order.
Siri support is new, so tell us how it goes.
Start a task from anywhere with the Add to Order control. Open Control Center, touch and hold an empty spot, tap Add a Control, and search for Order. It also works on the Lock Screen, and on the Action button if your iPhone has one.
In Safari, open the share sheet with (it may be under the button), then tap Send to Order and Add Task. The page's title becomes the task, with the link in its note. Shared text works too.
Swipe down on your Home Screen and type part of a task's name. Tasks you haven't finished show up there; tap one to open it in Order.
Started something big? Open it and turn on In Progress, or touch and hold it and tap In Progress. Its circle fills halfway and it says IN PROGRESS, so you can see where you left off.
Order matches your iPhone. Turn on Dark Mode in Settings › Display & Brightness, and the card turns dark, with the same red rule.
Order runs on iPad too. Sign in to the same Apple Account, and your iPhone and iPad show the same card. Changes usually arrive within a minute.
On iPad, you can drag text or a link from another app onto the card to make it a task.
Order runs on Mac too, with today's card beside Up Next in one window. Sign in to the same Apple Account, and it shows the same card as your iPhone.
Part five
You're using an early build. Tell us what's confusing, what breaks, and what you love. It all shapes the app.
You can also write to support@orderyourday.app.
Thanks for testing Order.
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