Chart Your Schedule You’ll find a couple of new tooltips in DayBack’s charts and analytics. These should help you make better sense of your targets over long timescales and see how close you are to meeting them. The new tooltips are doing some date math for you. Here’s how they work: If you’re new to […]
Project Management
Automate Reminders
When we make promises to our customers, we often create reminder events in DayBack to follow up on the commitments we’ve made. In today’s post, we’ll show you a customization we built to automate reminders by integrating DayBack with our help desk platform. We use Help Scout to manage our customer service workflow, but we […]
Scarcity: the Science of Resource Scheduling
We know that working under tight deadlines leads to childish thinking: the greater the time pressure, the more we revert to mental models from childhood. Research also shows that we predictably make bad decisions when we’re short on time. In Scarcity, Mullainathan and Shafir tweak classic experiments in behavioral economics by introducing various kinds of […]
Breakout Your Schedule by Any Field
Balance Your Workload Now breakout your schedule by calendar, by project, or by any custom field. This new option in DayBack’s horizon view means that any field in any of your calendars can become a swimlane. Here’s a short video of this in action: As you can see, breakout works great with Calendar Analytics. Plot […]
Work vs. System Building
Feeling incredibly behind lately, I was telling a friend that I wanted to take a couple weeks to set aside the distractions and work hard to catch up. She gave me some excellent advice.[1] She said that sounded good, as long as I spent that time building systems, instead of just “doing work.” She meant […]