New Two or Three Week View

We recently introduced a new, longer week view, which has been very helpful! The new view lets you work in the current week while keeping an eye on the following week. DayBack lets you to “see around corners” so deadlines don’t sneak up on you.

Several of us at SeedCode have been using this as our everyday view since we introduced it into beta, and it’s really paid off to make plans in the context of what’s coming up a week or two ahead.

Here are a few tips for getting the most out of this new view:

• Close the left-hand sidebar to get more room on smaller monitors.
• If you need even more room, you can hide weekends (in the gear menu of the left-hand sidebar).
• Clicking on the left and right arrows on either side of “today” will shift you two or three weeks forward and back.
• Shift-clicking on those arrows will nudge you just one week forward or back–this means you can always see one week past the week you’re scheduling into.
• Once you get this view the way you like it, create a bookmark so you can quickly get back to it with just one click.
• If you have existing bookmarks for week view, they don’t have an attribute for the number of weeks, so they’ll inherit however many weeks are currently showing: if you want your bookmarks to take you back to a single week, you’ll need to make new bookmarks or update the ones you have.)

Other multi-week views in DayBack, including the newly expanded pivot list view, may be more helpful for comparing resources against each other. But this new option is ideal for schedules that aren’t too crowded.

Try doing your daily work at a longer timescale and see if things begin to feel more predictable.