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Tasks entered in the “DailyPlanner” automatically transfer to the master “TaskList”
DailyPlanner
Work in the DailyPlanner or in the TaskList directly — everything is recorded so you can focus on what truly matters — not organizing your organizer.
TaskList
Start your days fresh with yesterday just a scroll away
Time-driven triggers automatically “turn the page”
Previous days’ contents is readily at hand
Entries automatically logged to the Index for easy look-up
Automated logs and entries
Spreadsheets are the perfect task tracker and manager. They just need a touch of automation to unlock.
Let Effort handle the repetitive stuff, while you get the job done.
Plan your days top to bottom with with no “page-turn fatigue”
Effort’s Essentials Template comes complete with all the room you need to brainstorm and slowly refine.
Automation handles moving what’s planned for tomorrow over to today.
Keep a handle on all twenty-four of your hours.
Gain Insights into Your Own Behaviors
Discover which of those new tasks or hobbies is having the greatest impact on your life.
Effort is your home base for tracking and journaling
Combine your to-do list, journal, brainstorming notepad, and plenty more all into one place.
Effort’s code base automates the mechanics of logging and organizing your entries.
Designed to Keep You Motivated
See how far you’ve come over any time frame. You’ll see progress even after a single day’s work.
Visualize the totals of your effort — or split it up by Pillars, Goals, or Categories. Make sure you’re focusing on what matters to you.
Customize to your liking
Build the worksheet that fits your needs. Love to collect new words, or don’t know where to put those reading notes? Add a new sheet and log it.
Pillars
Keep what’s important to you front and center
Categorize your tasks to a list of Pillars of your choosing.
Accumulate a currency more important than money.
Bring continuity to your Todo list
Task Qualities
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Inertia
A measure of how much internal resistance you feel to completing a task.
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Intensity
A measure of how much focus (or intensity) you placed into a task.
A hallmark characteristic of high effort activities.
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Impact
A measure of how much completing a task affects your life and drives it forward.
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Time
Roughly the time it took, in hours, to complete a task. A very important metric of effort.
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Effort
The defining currency in which you get to accumulate, and potentially, with good fortune, future spend.
This measure is calculated for you as:
Intensity x Time
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Grit
A hallmark measure of our most diligent, industrious, and resilient.
This measure is calculated for you as:
Intensity x Time x Inertia^2
FAQs
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Spreadsheets are familiar and powerful tools, but they lack automation. Effort bridges that gap, offering a more streamlined experience for journaling, note-taking, and habit tracking compared to traditional spreadsheets.
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Effort is built on the foundation of Google Sheets. We believe in the power of cloud-based collaboration and real-time updates that Google Sheets offers. This core integration allows us to provide a seamless and efficient experience for our users.
While we're always exploring ways to improve our platform, expanding compatibility to Microsoft Excel isn't currently on our roadmap. Our focus remains on optimizing our Google Sheets integration and delivering exceptional value to our users through this platform.
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No! Don't overwhelm yourself. A good litmus test is: if it's something you’d write down as a todo on a notepad, then it can go into Effort.
Track only what's important to you.
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The default target is 35, which translates to roughly 4-8 hours of deliberate task completion at a moderate intensity. But achieving more is regularly attainable. In fact, building Effort often required days of 140 points or more.
Of course, one of the goals of Effort is to help balance the many Pillars of life. So while theoretically, you could reach 240 effort points by working intensely for 24 hours straight, that's not realistic (or healthy)!
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Our growing team is dedicated to pushing updates and resolving issues. Feel free to reach out for help at support@effort.works or use the in-product "Feedback" link to report any problems you may encounter.
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We're sorry to hear you might want a refund. We appreciate your feedback! To request a refund, simply email billing@effort.works. We offer a no-questions-asked refund policy within 30 days of purchase.
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Lifetime access means you'll get ongoing access to Effort's codebase and all future sheet templates for a single, one-time payment. This includes updates and new features for as long as we develop Effort.
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Absolutely! Lifetime access guarantees you receive all future codebase updates and new sheet templates.
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Don’t care to track tasks? Effort is still your ultimate journal and note logging machine. Make a custom sheet that logs what YOU want to retain.
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Master your day with one powerful tool.
Plan your days in advance. Keep it handy at all times. Share with others what your day looks like. Keep yourself on track. Never miss a beat.
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