The 20MM User Guide

The Today tab is your daily base camp. Everything you record about a day lives here, and a complete entry takes under a minute.

Morning check-in

A brief prompt at the start of the day: how you slept, how you feel, what today's march looks like. Optional, but it anchors the day before the day happens to you.

THIS WEEK (A)

A weekly view of your device's native calendar, right on Today. Upcoming appointments and meetings sit alongside the day's march, so nothing on the schedule gets forgotten. Grant calendar access when prompted; 20MM only reads events — it never edits them.

DAILY ROUTINES (B)

Add in recurring daily items — the non-negotiables. Define them once; check them off each day. Routines are tracked based upon consistency; helping to ensure you get all the little things done.

TO-DO LIST (C)

This is the place to input tasks needing completion in the future. Unfinished items from the Task Pool roll over into this section so unfinished tasks are never lost.

DAILY SUMMARY (D)

A short written summary of the day, plus mood and energy on simple scales. This is the record your History and Field Notes are built from — a sentence or two is enough.

DAY TAGS (E)

Tag the day (travel, sick, milestone completed) so notable days are easy to find and compare later in History and Field Notes.

FACTORS (F)

Log factors which affect your day like caffeine, exercise, or late night screen time. With time, Field Notes correlates these against your mood and output — this is how you learn what actually moves your work output needle.

Focus is where hours are earned. Pick a pursuit, start a timer, work. Every completed session lands in your Deep Work totals automatically.

PURSUIT SELECTION (A)

Every session belongs to a pursuit, so the hours count toward something. If the work doesn't fit a pursuit yet, log it under General and sort it later.

WORK QUEUE / BRAIN DUMP (B)

Mid-session thoughts — errands, ideas, the email you forgot — go in the queue instead of your head. Capture in two seconds, return to the work, triage after the timer ends.

Task at hand

Long-press any task in the Task Pool to set it as the current Task At Hand. It stays pinned front and center during the session — one task, one march — until you complete it or long-press another to take its place.

Deep Work is the running ledger of hours: every session, every pursuit, totaled over weeks, months, and years. This is where the march becomes visible.

PURSUITS (A)

The named bodies of work you're accumulating hours toward — a book, a language, a craft. Each carries its own total and history.

GENERAL (B)

The catch-all for focused work that isn't a pursuit. You can split it into subcategories (admin, reading, planning) so the catch-all still tells you something.

MANUAL ENTRY (C)

Worked away from the app — a whiteboard session, a flight, a notebook morning? Add the hours by hand. The ledger should reflect the work, not just the timer.

Today's Completed Tasks (D)

A daily capture of tasks marked completed for the day.

Task Log (E)

A quick glance log that displays the number of tasks and amount of deep work logged per day.

Field Notes provides a summary of your log back to you. Three views:

Debrief

A monthly summary of the march: days logged, hours by pursuit, mood over the month, notable stretches. The end-of-month campfire review.

Trends

Mood, energy, and hours over time. Is the average moving? Is the pace holding?

Patterns & correlations

Where your logged factors meet your outcomes. Days with morning exercise vs. without; caffeine against afternoon energy. Correlations, not verdicts — but over months they point somewhere.

Every logged day is kept. History lets you walk the trail backwards.

Browsing past days

Open any past day to see its full record: summary, mood, energy, sessions, tags.

Mood heatmap

Shows months at a glance. Clusters of good and bad days become obvious in a way single entries never are — a rough February looks different when you can see it.

Search & filter

Finds days by text, tag, or factor. "Every day tagged travel," "every day I mentioned the launch" — the log becomes answerable.

A pursuit is a long expedition, planned like one.

Goal planning

Set the destination in hours — 500 toward the language, 1,000 toward the craft — and a daily or weekly pace you can hold in bad weather, not just good.

Milestones

Named waypoints along the route — first 100 hours, draft finished, first conversation held. Passing one gets a quiet marker in your log, nothing louder.

The mountain

Each pursuit is drawn as a mountain: base is zero, summit is the goal, and your accumulated hours are the altitude climbed. Milestones sit on the slope where they'll be reached.

Pace ribbon

A strip showing actual pace against planned pace. Ahead, behind, or on the line — visible in one glance, week by week.

March log

The pursuit's own chronology: every session, milestone, and note in one running record — the story of the climb, told in entries.