Build a daily review

A daily review turns several Lar surfaces into one short routine: Captures for incoming material, Tasks for commitments, Upcoming for reminders, Calendar for dated context, and today’s Daily Note for the record.

What you will use

• Daily Notes for a date-keyed journal;
• Captures for unprocessed input;
• Tasks for work you have committed to;
• Upcoming and the Notifications bell for time-based prompts and events;
• links and tags to connect the day’s record.

The review does not require AI, sync, or an account.

1. Prepare Daily Notes

Open Settings → Daily Notes and choose the behavior you want:

• Create a daily note each day creates at most one note per date on launch and at the day boundary.
• Carry over unchecked todos copies unfinished todo blocks from the most recent Daily Note. The originals stay untouched.
• Link todos to Tasks mirrors Daily Note todo blocks into dated Task Objects.
• Default template for auto-created notes gives automatic notes a repeatable structure.

A useful review template is:

## Plan

## Waiting for

## Notes

## End-of-day review

- What moved forward?
- What is blocked?
- What should start tomorrow?

See Daily Notes and Templates.

2. Open Today

Choose Today beside Calendar or run Open today from the command palette. If today’s Daily Note does not exist, Lar creates it and opens the same date-keyed Object every time you return.

Keep it open as the review’s home page. Use tabs or the side panel to inspect other Objects without losing your place.

3. Process Captures to zero

Open Captures → New. For each item, make one decision:

• Convert it to the correct Object Type when it should become durable knowledge.
• Send to Daily Note when the content belongs in today’s journal.
• Archive it when it is already useful and needs no more triage.
• Dismiss it when you do not want it; raw captures move to Trash and remain recoverable.
• Accept, adjust, or decline a Workflow suggestion after reviewing it.

Use selection checkboxes to send, archive, or dismiss several items together. Do not use Captures as a permanent reading list—the point of the queue is to decide what each item becomes.

See Process your Captures.

4. Review Today’s Tasks

Open Tasks → Today and review open Tasks dated today. Then check:

• Inbox for Tasks with no date or deadline;
• Deadline for time-sensitive commitments;
• Scheduled for what is coming next;
• Context if you plan work by Project, Meeting, or Area.

Complete finished Tasks. For unfinished work, deliberately reschedule it, change its status, or leave it today. Avoid copying Tasks into a second checklist unless you only need a short Daily Note summary.

The Calendar’s Day view rolls overdue open Tasks into today’s Tasks section. Its Move all open tasks to control can reschedule the visible group to Today, Tomorrow, Next week, or Next month.

See Tasks and Calendar and events.

5. Check reminders and notifications

Open Upcoming and scan its overdue, today, this-week, and later buckets. Dismiss fired reminders you have acknowledged and remove reminders you no longer need.

Then open the Notifications bell:

• mark informational items read;
• inspect errors rather than dismissing them blindly;
• run any explicit Workflow action buttons;
• follow the Captures footer if new incoming items arrived during the review.

Notifications and Captures are separate queues. The bell reports events; Captures holds content awaiting a decision.

See Reminders and notifications.

6. Scan the day in Calendar

Open Calendar → Day to see the day’s Daily Note, Tasks, dated Objects, and Objects created today in one place.

This catches work that does not live in the Task dashboard—for example, a Meeting later today or a Project milestone stored in a custom Date property. Open relevant Objects in the side panel and add links to the Daily Note when they belong in the day’s record.

7. Close the review

Return to the Daily Note and write a short plan. A useful finish is:

1. Link the one or two Objects that matter most today.
2. Record a small number of outcomes rather than duplicating the full Task list.
3. Note anything you are waiting for.
4. At the end of the day, add what moved, what blocked, and what should continue.

If todo rollover is enabled, unchecked todo blocks can carry into the next automatically created Daily Note. Linked Tasks preserve their own status and scheduling in the Task dashboard.

Make the routine faster

• Use the command palette to jump among Today, Tasks, Captures, Upcoming, and Calendar.
• Pin a Project or Area you review every day.
• Save searches for recurring checks, such as unreviewed Meetings or active Projects.
• Add a once-daily Morning Digest in Settings → Daily Notes if you want a notification summary of open dated Tasks. It remains off until you enable it.

See Search and the command palette and Collections and pinned Objects.