Daily planning

Confession: I plan my mornings with pen and paper. Bullet journal, a cheap notebook, a pen that’s almost dead.

Kombine doesn’t try to replace that. It makes sure the paper plan and the real task list don’t drift apart, and it keeps “what’s on today” one glance away.

The morning, in five minutes

Open Today. Kombine asks Which task must happen today?. That’s today’s toad: the one thing that makes the day a success even if everything else burns. Pick it. If yesterday’s toad is still hanging, it asks about that first.
Look at what’s due. I group tasks by Dates (the default): Overdue, Today, Tomorrow, This week. Today and Overdue is the whole plan. Everything else is noise until it’s due.
Be honest about Overdue. Each overdue task gets a new date, gets archived, or gets done. Carrying the same five overdue tasks for a month isn’t a plan, it’s a museum.
Pick by energy, not by order. I don’t sort by priority and grind top to bottom. I look at the list and pick what fits how I feel right now. Fresh: the toad. After lunch: the boring admin stuff. Tasks have an Energy field if you want to make this explicit.

Grouping lives in ☰ › Group by. The chips under the top bar show one group only, so Today is one tap.

Then I start the clock on the toad.

Don’t open the app

Most of my Kombine use happens without opening Kombine. Opening an app means seeing everything else in it, and “just checking one thing” becomes fifteen minutes of reorganizing tags.

Widgets answer “what’s next?” from the home screen.

Long-press the home screen › Widgets › Kombine:

Today: today’s tasks at a glance. The wide version lets you tick tasks off right from the widget.
Add task: one tap to a new task.
Log: today’s log entries.

Long-press the app icon for quick actions. This is how most of my sessions start: long-press, start the timer, phone back in the pocket.

Add task, Start pomodoro, Log entry and New decision. Drag one onto the home screen to keep it as its own icon.

While the timer runs, you control it from the lock screen. Pausing for the doorbell is one tap, and you don’t need to unlock the phone.

The timer notification has Pause, Resume and Stop, plus Take Break and Skip Break at the end of a session. Add the Start timer tile to Quick Settings to start one from the notification shade.

Details: Timer › On your other screens.

Work that lives somewhere else

My worst tasks weren’t in any list. They were GitHub issues I created myself, said “I’ll follow up on that” about, and never saw again.

Now Claude Code pulls the issues I’ve opened into Kombine as tasks, using a personal access token. They show up in the same date groups as everything else, so they’re on my plan instead of in a tab I never open. Each issue comes in once, even if I run the import every morning.

How to set up an AI agent like this, plus a ready-made Jira import, is in Workflows. It’s the nerdy part of the docs. It’s also the part I use every day.

Evening (optional)

I don’t do a big shutdown ritual. If I do anything, it’s a glance at the Log: sessions, notes and finished tasks on one timeline. If I remember something I didn’t log, I add a note with the time it actually happened.

The plan fits on a sticky note. The list is just there so the sticky note doesn’t lie.