# Plan your day with a short daily list

> Add up to six tasks for a day, put them in order, tick them off, and let unfinished ones move to tomorrow by themselves. Link a task to a save and plan tomorrow tonight.

Noodle Assistant user guide · Plan and reminders · Updated 2026-10-21 · https://www.noodleassistant.com/docs/plan

Plan is a short to-do list for each day. You add a few tasks, put the most important first, and anything you don't finish moves to the next day on its own. Six tasks a day is the soft limit.

## Open Plan

1. On **Home**, tap the **Today** card, or the calendar button at the top next to Noodle.
2. Plan opens on **Today**, with a strip of days across the top.

## Add a task

1. At the bottom, tap **Add to today**.
2. Type the task, such as "Call the plumber about the kitchen tap".
3. Tap the **+** at the right, or the Enter key. The task joins the bottom of the list, and the bar shows how many slots are left ("1 slot free").

A seventh task isn't blocked: Noodle asks **That's more than six for one day. Put it on another day?** with an **Another day** button. Ignore it to keep the task on this day.

![Plan for Wednesday with five tasks, the fourth ticked and crossed out, the fifth with an Item label, and 1 slot free](https://www.noodleassistant.com/docs/screenshots/plan-today.webp)

## Link a task to a save

1. Tap the link button at the left of the add box. **Add from your saves** opens.
2. Search or pick a save from **Recent**. It becomes a task with an **Item** label.
3. Later, tap that label to open the save.

From a save's own screen, tap **⋯**, then **Plan it**, and pick a day.

## Tick off, reorder and change tasks

- Tap the box next to a task to finish it. It's crossed out and keeps its place.
- Drag the six-dot handle on the right to move a task up or down.
- Tap or hold a task's text for its menu: **Move up**, **Move down**, **Edit**, **Move to another day**, **Open the saved item** (for linked tasks), **Drop** and **Delete**.

![Menu for the task Compare car insurance quotes with Move up, Move down, Edit, Move to another day, Drop and Delete](https://www.noodleassistant.com/docs/screenshots/plan-task-menu.webp)

**Drop** means you've decided not to do it; the task stays in that day's history marked **Dropped**. **Delete** removes it as if it never existed.

## Plan tomorrow tonight

1. In the day strip, tap tomorrow. The line under the day's name says "plan tomorrow tonight".
2. Add tomorrow's tasks and drag them into order.
3. Check the dashed list under **Moving here tonight, if not done**. These are today's open tasks: any you don't finish join tomorrow tonight, below tomorrow's own tasks.
4. Tap **Done** to go back to today.

![Thursday with three planned tasks, 7 of 6 in the bar, and four of today's open tasks listed under Moving here tonight, if not done](https://www.noodleassistant.com/docs/screenshots/plan-tomorrow.webp)

## What happens to unfinished tasks

When a new day starts, open tasks move to today, below today's own tasks, with a label such as **Carried 1 day**. After a task has been carried three days, it offers **Reschedule or drop**. Tap it to choose **Do today**, **Pick a date** or **Drop it**.

Past days are read-only. Swipe the list to the right, or scroll the day strip back and tap an earlier day. You'll see what you finished (crossed out), what moved on ("Moved to Tue 20") and what you dropped (**Dropped**). **Back to today** returns you.

## Get a nudge each evening

Go to **Settings** → **Background & reminders** and turn on **Daily reminder**. In the evening (after 7 PM unless you change **Remind me after**) you get one notification, such as "2 unfinished. Plan tomorrow." It's off by default.

> **What Noodle doesn't do (yet)**
>
> Plan is deliberately simple. It has no times or calendar view, no priorities or colors, no subtasks, no repeating tasks and no sharing. For a weekly chore, add it to each day you'll do it, or put a [reminder](https://www.noodleassistant.com/docs/reminders) on a saved note.

## Related

- [Reminders](https://www.noodleassistant.com/docs/reminders)
- [Plan on the home page](https://www.noodleassistant.com/#plan)
- [The Ivy Lee method](https://www.noodleassistant.com/blog/ivy-lee-method), the idea Plan is built on

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