March 2026: Plan my day, decide, order, go
March 2026 turned the diary into a morning routine. Plan my day shows what is overdue and what is booked, lets you decide, puts the day in order, and sends it to your phone.
Part 33 of 39 of Building TradeYoke, the story of how the platform was built, from January 2024 to today. Previous: February 2026: working with no signal, offline-first in practice. Next: April 2026: one core, many trades. See every part on the build timeline.
Quick answer
Quick answer: Plan my day is TradeYoke's morning flow in three steps: decide what is in today (overdue work, this week's jobs and anything without a day), order it nearest-first with the miles between stops, then go, with the run on your phone. Timed appointments stay where they are and the weather feeds into the suggestions.
Key takeaways
- Three steps: decide, order, go.
- A morning briefing shows what is overdue and what is booked.
- The day is ordered nearest-first, with the miles shown.
- Timed appointments stay where they are, and the weather is taken into account.
From a diary to a routine
The diary from 2024 shows what is booked. A morning needs more than that: it needs a decision about what actually goes in today. March 2026 was about that decision, and about doing it in a couple of minutes over a cup of tea.
Decide
Overdue work, this week's jobs and anything that does not have a day yet are lined up for you to deal with. You say what is in, what waits and what moves. The briefing tells you the state of things, and the weather is taken into account when suggesting what to do first, so a wet-weather job is not top of a windy morning.
Order
Once you know what is in, the day is put in order, nearest-first, using the map locations from 2025. It shows the miles between stops and the total for the day, with a travelling clock. Timed appointments keep their place, and the rest are fitted around them. It is a sensible order, not a perfect one, and you can change it.
Go
The ordered day goes to your phone, with a map if you want it. From each stop, the customer record and the Directions button are one tap away.
What it replaced
Most people do this in their heads, in the van, at a quarter past seven. The result is usually fine and occasionally costs an hour. Writing the steps down and having the software do the sorting makes the good morning the normal one. Our post on running the round from your phone shows the flow in use.
Where it stands
Plan my day is available in the web app, and we are still improving it. It sits alongside the earlier planner, which remains available.
Next
April: adding other trades to the same core.
Questions people ask
What does Plan my day do?
It lines up overdue work, this week's jobs and anything without a day for you to decide, orders the day nearest-first with the miles shown, and sends it to your phone.
Does it take the weather into account?
Yes, the weather forecast feeds into its suggestions.
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