Got a question about Daycast? Find frequently asked questions—and their answers—here.
Click your question to expand the answer. Don't see your question here? Either click the Help widget at the bottom right of this page to contact us or send your question via email to support@daycast.com. We're happy to help.
I’m terrible at day planning. Any tips?
Yes! The two day-planning practices we recommend most highly (to makers and managers alike) are: 1) Add day-planning as a task in your day plan. Instead of viewing it as a thing you do in preparation for work, view it as a daily part of your work; 2) Whenever possible, start that day-planning task at the end of each workday, rather than at the beginning, reserving any morning day planning for adjustments, not from-scratch blueprinting. The point being that your warm brain today is good for jump-starting your cold one tomorrow, while your cold brain may be better at identifying lofty expectations and course correcting as needed.
Read more of our thoughts on day planning in our blog.
Yes, you can reorder the items in your plan whenever you like.
Simply hover over the item you’d like to move and you’ll see a set of two vertical ellipses to the left of the task‘s timer. Click and hold those ellipses to grab the item you’d like to move, then pull it down or up to get it where you want it in your plan. The dotted line shows you where your item will land. When you’ve found the right spot, release to drop the item in place.
How far in advance can I plan?
As far as you like. Some Daycast users plan just one day ahead while others prefer to plan a whole week ahead. When taking time off, it can ease your re-entry to plan your first day back before leaving.
I’d like to add a single task to multiple days at a time. Can I do that?
There’s currently no way to add a task to multiple days at once. If this capability would make Daycast more valuable to you, please email us at support@daycast.com and let us know. If a significant number of users request that feature, we’ll add it to our roadmap. In the meantime, you can forward tasks to future dates (up to one week in advance) by first clicking the encircled arrow that surfaces when you hover over a task and then choosing the day you’d like to copy your task to.
You can. Click here for instructions on using the Task Time Estimates feature.
Who can make changes to my day plan?
Only you. If an admin or supervisor would like you to make a change in your plan, they’ll need to ask you to make the change. All team members can view any other team member’s plan, but no one can alter any plan but their own.
Will Daycast keep track of what time of day I started and ended each task?
Yes. Each task you clock time against has its own history, a log of sorts. This log is available to you via the vertical ellipsis to the far right of the task's project field. Click it and then click Task History to reveal timestamped actions (e.g. clocking in) and the time accrued at the time the action was taken.
What if I need to start a task at a particular time? Do I need to set an alert in a separate tool?
No, Daycast will alert you five minutes prior to any times you include in your task descriptions. Click here to learn how to use the Task Reminder feature.
I forgot to clock out of a task. How do I fix my time?
Just click in the timer next to the task you’d like to edit and change your time total manually using your keyboard.
Daycast can help you avoid this chore if you enable Status Reminders.
I keep forgetting to clock out! Can Daycast help?
Yes. Click the vertical ellipsis in the upper right corner of your Daycast, choose Settings, and scroll down to Automatic Clock Out. Set your preferences, and Daycast will automatically clock you out whenever those parameters are met.
Once you’ve enabled this feature, you’ll receive a notification in your Daycast whenever it’s activated.
Only you. If an admin or supervisor notices an error in your time, they’ll need to ask you to make any adjustments. All team members can view any other team member’s time, but no one can edit any time but their own.
There is. Windows users will find the Daycast Tray Menu in their system tray; macOS users will find it in their menu bar. Use it to clock in and out of tasks on the fly.
Note that you will still need to clock out from your main Daycast window (or enable Automatic Clock Out).
Who can see my status in Daycast?
Anyone on your team can see your status. Teammates who’ve filtered you out of their view won’t see your status, but if they filter you back in, they will.
Who can see my day plan in Daycast?
Anyone on your team can see your day plan by clicking on your name in their user panel. This brings them to your day plan, where their view is just like your own with one exception: No one can make changes, add tasks, or finalize your day but you.
Teammates who’ve filtered you out of their user panel won’t be able to navigate to your day plan, but if they filter you back in, they can.
Just click on their name in your user panel. You’ll see their entire day plan for the current day, and you can click on previous or future dates to see their past day plans or any they’ve prepared in advance.
You can! Click Filter People (in the bottom left of your Daycast window) and uncheck all the names you’d like to remove from your view. When you’ve finished, click somewhere else in the app to collapse the filter menu and you won’t see the un-checked team members in your User Panel. To re-add a team member to your view, click [number of] People Hidden (in the bottom left of your Daycast window) and check the names you’d like to add back into your view.
If I filter a teammate out of my user panel, can I still view their day plan?
No. You’ll need to add them back into your user panel to do that. Just click [number of] People Hidden in the bottom left of your Daycast window, check the names of the users you’d like to add back in, then click somewhere else in the app to collapse the filter menu and see the newly added users. Now you can navigate to their day plan as usual by clicking on their name in your user panel.
