Daybreak

AI-powered daily briefing

Daybreak is your calm, AI-powered starting point for the day. Open it whenever you want a clear picture of what matters right now — without having to scroll through every task, routine, and journal yourself.

Behind the scenes, AI reads through your day and writes a short, personal briefing for you — not a generic summary, but one based entirely on your own tasks, routines, and journals.

Nothing happens automatically in the background. You open Daybreak, and only when you're ready, you create your briefing. It only ever looks at what's already in your workspace, so there's nothing new to set up first.

What Your Briefing Shows You

A Daybreak briefing is short on purpose. It brings together:

• A short greeting and summary for the day, written by AI in plain language.

• Today's progress — how much of today's work is already done, plus a gentle sense of whether you're moving faster or slower than usual.

• Your planned focus time for the tasks still open today.

• Anything overdue that deserves a second look.

• What matters most today — a short, AI-picked list, not your whole to-do list.

• What's coming up next, so later days don't catch you by surprise.

• Things that could use a fresh look — journals or older tasks that have been sitting untouched for a while, each with an AI-written suggestion for what to do next, and for journals, a one-click way to turn that suggestion into a task.

How To Use It

1. Open Daybreak from the sidebar.

2. Select Create briefing.

3. Read through the summary and today's focus list.

4. If something in the "not updated recently" list isn't useful right now, choose Snooze for 1 week, Snooze for 1 month, or Never.

5. Later in the day, use Refresh whenever you want an updated briefing.

The more up to date your due dates, journal notes, and pins are, the more useful your briefing will be — Daybreak simply reflects what's already there.

Getting Reminded About Things You've Let Sit

Daybreak can gently point out journals and older tasks that haven't had any attention in a while, along with a simple suggestion for what to do next.

• Journals are only included once you choose to. Open a journal and turn on Track in Daybreak if you'd like to be reminded when it goes quiet.

• Tasks you've pinned or starred can show up on their own if they've been open for a while without a due date — no setup needed.

Either way, you're always in control:

• Choose Add as task on a journal reminder to turn its suggestion into a real task, linked back to the journal entry it came from — handy when Daybreak points out something you should actually go do, not just look at.

• Choose Snooze for 1 week or Snooze for 1 month to pause a reminder for a while.

• Choose Never to stop it from appearing again.

• For journals, you can always turn Track in Daybreak back on later if you change your mind.

Making Daybreak Feel Right For You

Everyone's pace is different, so Daybreak lets you adjust a few things to fit how you work. Open the settings icon at the top of the Daybreak page to change:

• How long something can go untouched before Daybreak considers it worth a reminder.

• How far ahead Daybreak looks when showing you what's coming up.

• How many reminders show up in a single briefing at once.

If you're not sure, the defaults work well for most people — you can always switch back to them with one click.

Pro Access

Daybreak is available with Notaday Pro. If your account doesn't have Pro access, you'll see an upgrade prompt instead of the briefing.

Good To Know

Daybreak won't replace your full task list or journal — it's here to help you decide where to start. A few small habits make it noticeably better:

• Keeping your task list arranged in the order that matters to you helps Daybreak understand what to highlight first.

• Pinning, starring, and sorting things into the right projects and tags gives Daybreak more to go on when deciding what's worth mentioning.

• A quick note in a journal, even a short one, is enough to keep it from looking neglected.