How to use your life planner

My Vision — your vision board

The page where you keep your dreams in sight. Add photos, sort them by badge, and filter the board to see one area at a time. You can also choose which photos appear in the home-screen widget. Six badges are built in: travel, career, wellbeing, family, home and growth.

My goals — the year in four quarters

Your intentions, quarter by quarter, with four goals per quarter. The quarterly split is deliberate: a yearly goal stays vague, a three-month goal holds.

Day — the page you open most

Your whole day on one page: the hour-by-hour schedule, your to-do list, your wellbeing habits, your meals, three gratitudes, your notes and your evening mood. Mood is one tap, from Difficult to Radiant.

• Schedule
• To Do
• Wellbeing
• Meals
• Gratitude
• Notes
• My mood

Week — stepping back on Sunday

Weekly goals, tasks day by day, and two sections that close the loop: the week review for the week just gone, and the focus for next week.

Month — the wider view

The month calendar with the state of each day, completed or in progress, the monthly goals, your notes, then the month review and the focus for next month.

Progress — proof that it is working

Your consistency streak, your record and the next milestone to reach. Below that, the completion rate for the year, quarter, month, week and today, each wellbeing habit in detail, and your mood for the year in pixels.

Account and data

At the top, JODLA tells you where your data lives. "On this device" means it is saved on this phone only: nothing is lost while you stay on it, but nothing can be recovered if you change phones. Signing in turns on backup and sync between your devices.

Subscription

The section shows your status, Free or Premium. Premium unlocks every theme, multi-device sync, and writing on the vision board and the quarterly goals. Restore purchases is what you use after reinstalling the app or switching phones: your purchases come back without paying again.

Language & Country

Two separate settings. The language changes the interface. The country drives public holidays, so set it to where you actually live to see the right dates.

Appearance — theme, colour, binding

Three levels of personalisation. Light, Dark or Auto, which then follows your phone. Then the colour theme, which repaints the cover and the paper — and new colours are added regularly. And finally the binding finish, the golden spiral visible along the edge of every page.

• Ivoire
• Ambre
• Émeraude
• Madras
• Onyx
• Nacre
• … and new ones regularly

Customization — My habits

The four wellbeing habits on the Day page are only a starting point. Replace them with the ones you really want to track: they then appear on the Day page to tick off, and in Progress as a monthly percentage.

Customization — Calendar

Two things live here. Calendar illustrations let you choose the artwork that dresses the calendar through the months. Sync calendar connects JODLA to your phone's calendar, so your appointments appear in your planner and your JODLA appointments appear in your calendar.

Consistency streak

JODLA counts the days you fill in your planner and keeps your record. Milestone notifications congratulate you along the way — the first milestone is three days. Message style changes the tone of those congratulations: five styles are available.

Reminders — morning and evening

Two reminders only, and that is on purpose: one in the morning to set up your day, one in the evening to close it. The time is up to you, 8:00 and 20:00 by default. The Test button sends the notification immediately, handy for checking that notifications are allowed on your phone.

Smart Reminders

A step beyond the two fixed reminders: these messages adapt to what is happening in your life planner. You can switch them all on, then keep only the ones that help.

• Contextual reminders, the evening before
• Postponed tasks, a gentle nudge about what is waiting
• Weekly recap, on Sunday
• Monthly recap
• Quarterly recap
• Habit streaks, from three days up

Rate JODLA and legal information

The bottom of the screen gathers the store link for leaving a rating, then the terms of use, the privacy policy and the about page.

Open it twice a day, not ten times

Morning to choose, evening to record. That is exactly what the two reminders are for: set them for moments when your phone is genuinely in your hand and the routine holds by itself.

Three priorities, not thirty

An over-long to-do list becomes discouraging. Keep three lines in To Do; the rest can wait on another day of the week.

Don't break the streak

This is JODLA's most effective spring. After four or five days the streak becomes something you no longer want to lose — and that is exactly when the habit settles in.

Does it work offline?

Yes. Your life planner is saved on your device, so you can plan on a plane or with no signal. As soon as you are back online, sync updates your other devices.

I'm changing phones, what should I do?

Sign in on the old device before you leave it, then sign in with the same account on the new one. If you had Premium, use Restore purchases.

Can my existing appointments show up?

Yes: JODLA syncs with Apple Calendar and Google Calendar, and since version 1.3 your JODLA appointments are added to your phone's calendar too.

What happens if I stop Premium?

Your data stays. The vision board and the quarterly goals become read-only, and the Premium-only themes become unavailable again.