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If you’re like us, most of your days comprise a mixture of fixed-time tasks (e.g. meetings) and other tasks that just need to be fitted in (e.g. shopping).  In the Day Planner, assign those untimed tasks to ‘productivity zones’ to ensure you do the important ones when you’re most alert (e.g. in the morning) and the tedious ones late in the afternoon.  Good Habits that you want to install are listed each day so there’s no forgetting them!   A simple  double-tap marks tasks as complete.  Didn’t complete an important task today?  No worries – it’ll be right back there on your To-Do list tomorrow.

You could create separate lists for groceries, for the pet store, the hardware store, etc.   But, the way we like to organize it is with one big shopping list containing all items we regularly buy and then tag each one.  e.g. dog food gets the ‘pet store’ tag. Milk can be bought from the local grocery and the pharmacy so it gets 2 tags.   When you’re out-and-about, a simple tap or two filters the shopping list to show only grocery items and only those you still need.   When you add milk to your cart,  double tap it in LifeChanger.  Your spouse then knows you just bought it as (s)he can see the ‘done’ status and the date/time (and can even get a notification message if required).

Keeping track of your kids’ soccer, football and baseball practices with all the dates, times and locations used to be a chore.  No longer!

In LifeChanger, create a Sports list and add one entry on it for each sport and each kid.  Pin each entry to the list.  When you know the dates, drag e.g. the soccer entry to each date and time on your day planner.  Because it’s pinned, a clone will be created and linked back to the main soccer entry.  At any time you can open that entry and see all the soccer dates cloned from it – i.e. there’s no need any longer to go scouring through dates on your calendar.  Of course, because you sensibly tagged the soccer entry with the kid’s name, your spouse can see all the same info without lifting a finger.

In a lot of countries it’s mandatory to have your car inspected every year.  In the UK it’s called the MOT (Ministry of Transport) test.  If your car doesn’t have a valid MOT in the last 12 months you’re liable to a fine.  But, if you have your car tested 11 months after the previous test, you need to get tested within the next 12 months from that date.  i.e. a simple recurrence where you set a reminder every 12 months doesn’t cut it for this task.  In LifeChanger it’s simple.  Add an MOT Task to your Favorites list.  Every time you get an MOT, drag and drop it onto your Day Plan on that day to create a clone and set a reminder for 11 month’s time so you have 4 weeks in which to arrange to get your car tested next year.   You can open the MOT task on your Favorites list at any time to see the date on the last clone that indicates when your car was last tested.