Your day · one screen
What does today
need from you?
That is the only question Today answers. What is left of your schedule, what is late or due, the note for the day, and anything that has quietly stopped working. Four regions, and a deliberate refusal to become a second dashboard.
Four regions, and what each is for
Not four widgets. Each region earns its place by answering part of the same question, and each one disappears when it has nothing to say.
- Schedule
What is left of today, merged from Google Calendar and Outlook. The meeting you are currently sitting in stays on the list until it actually ends — it is the row most likely to be looked at, and filtering on “starts later than now” is how it disappears at the worst moment. The fortnight is one click away.
- Due
Two buckets only: overdue, and due today. They come from dated tasks in your notes, and ticking one here is the same commitment as ticking it in the page it lives on — tasks are tracked by identity, not by where they sit in a document.
- Daily note
One note per day, titled by its date. It is created when you first write in it, never pre‑created — so an untouched day leaves nothing behind, and the region is an invitation rather than an empty file you have to tidy up later.
- Needs attention
Automations that failed, that were paused after repeated failures, or that never got to run at all — signed out, or on a plan without unattended runs. The last is the case worth having a region for: a trigger firing into nothing looks exactly like a trigger that is armed and waiting.
An empty day and a broken calendar are not the same screen
Most day surfaces have one way of having nothing to show, and it is a spinner that turns into a blank. Today has five, because the five mean genuinely different things and only one of them is your fault.
- Loading
A skeleton in the shape of the rows that are coming — and only on the very first load. A background refresh leaves the schedule you are reading exactly where it is.
- No calendar yet
The common first run, and it gets one sentence and one button rather than an apology. Nothing else on the screen is drawn as broken, because nothing is.
- Nothing came back
The provider is named, with the way to fix it. A calendar that cannot be reached is a degraded day, not a broken app, so it is not coloured like an emergency.
- Only one answered
You get the events that arrived plus the failure beside them. Half a schedule with a note about the other half is far more useful than an error where a schedule should be — and a refresh that fails never replaces a working answer with a spinner.
- Nothing on today
A good day, and it should read like one. Distinct from all four above, and from the whole‑screen empty state that appears only when there is genuinely nothing — no calendar, no dated task, nothing broken — instead of four hollow regions stacked into a day that does not exist.
What it shows, and what it refuses to
The hardest part of a day surface is not what to put on it. Every refusal below is a thing that already exists somewhere better in LumenQube, and repeating it here would have made both worse.
On the screen
- Your remaining schedule, in your own time zone, with the account each event came from.
- What is late and what is due today, tickable in place.
- Today’s note, one click from writing in it.
- Automations that need a person — and only when there are any.
Kept off it
- No streaks, no completion percentage, no counts for their own sake. Home already carries the activity chart; two dashboards make both worse.
- No “soon” and no “later”. The to‑do roundup in LumenNotes is the task list; Today is only ever about today.
- No permanent “nothing needs attention”. A region that always says everything is fine is a region nobody reads on the day it is not.
- No card around every object. A region is a heading and a list; type and space carry the hierarchy.
What is being built next
Today is the first surface of a longer plan. The honest state of the rest, so you can decide whether to wait.
- NextSearch that understands relationships, on your device
Meaning‑matching computed locally rather than in the cloud, and the links between your notes, files and tasks treated as something a search can follow. That is what would let Today say why a task and a meeting belong to each other.
- ThenMeetings that produce work
A meeting the workspace understands as one object — prep before it, notes beside the transcript, decisions that carry the point in the recording they came from. Today shows you the meeting; it does not yet know what came out of it.
- ThenMemory & Context you can govern
One screen for everything the workspace remembers: what is stored, where, what the AI may touch — and a Forget that removes it rather than hiding it. The per‑calendar control on Calendar is the shape the rest will take.
No dates, deliberately. We would rather tell you the order than a quarter we would have to quietly change.
Questions
Do I need to connect a calendar to use Today?
No. Without one you still get dated tasks from your notes, the day’s note, and anything that needs attention — and the schedule region says so in a sentence instead of pretending to load forever. Connecting Google Calendar or Outlook adds the schedule.
Where do the tasks come from?
From your notes. Any checkbox you have given a date appears here on the day it is due, and stays until it is done. Ticking it in Today ticks it in the page it came from, because it is the same task rather than a copy — reordering the page does not scramble what is done.
Does the daily note get created every day whether I use it or not?
No. It exists once you write in it. The title is the date, and the date is also how it is found again tomorrow, so there is exactly one note per day and no drift of empty files behind you.
Is this a replacement for my calendar app?
No, and it does not try to be. Today shows what is left of your day; Calendar shows the fortnight. Both read from Google and Outlook and neither holds the record — rescheduling, inviting and creating still happen where the invitations live.
Does the assistant see everything Today sees?
It sees the same filtered calendar Today does — the same code decides both, so a calendar or an event you exclude is missing from both. It does not read your notes or your day unprompted; searching them is a tool it uses when your request needs it, and anything that leaves your machine passes an approval gate first.
The rest of the day surface
Calendar — the fortnight, and what stays out of itLumenNotes — where the tasks liveAutomations — the work that runs itselfKnow — find your own past