An evening review for a task list
What to look at when the day is over: what got done, what slipped, what is at risk, and which changes you are willing to accept before tomorrow's schedule runs.
The list is lying a little by evening
Morning plans rot. A meeting ran over, an estimate was short, and two tasks never started. If you leave them as they were, tomorrow's schedule starts from a fiction. An evening review is a short pass over the day you had.
Fits Today prompts a daily review, by default at 8:30 PM, and a weekly one, by default Sunday at 6 PM. You can change the times or turn them off. A missed weekly review stays open for three days. The app shows a banner while a review is due. It does not start the conversation until you press Start review.
Look at done, slipped, and at risk
Three piles are enough. What you finished. What was scheduled and did not happen. What is still open and will miss a deadline if nothing moves. The backlog matters too, because a task you have been avoiding is part of the day even if it never reached the timeline.
The review in Fits Today reads that picture and proposes specific edits: raise or lower a priority, defer, re-estimate, set a deadline, archive, or delete. The proposals come as cards. Accept, reject, or accept all. A delete needs its own confirmation. The schedule reflows after accepted changes.
The weekly pass asks a different question
The evening review is about tomorrow. The weekly review is about the shape of the list. Which lists are full of work you no longer mean. Which deadlines were hopeful. Which repeating chores you keep skipping because the estimate is wrong.
Keep the weekly review shorter than people expect. You are not writing a performance report. You are deciding what next week is allowed to contain. If the horizon is 21 days and the backlog is three times that, some of it has to leave the active list.
Save the summary for the next one
A review you cannot remember next Tuesday will repeat the same argument. Fits Today stores the conversation, the summary, and the change log. The previous summary is context the next time you start. That is how "we already deferred the garage" survives a week.
If you reject a proposal, it stays rejected for that pass. The app does not sneak the change in. Trust in a task manager is mostly this: you can see what it wanted to do, and you can say no.
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