What Today Is For
Today is the front door of the system.
Its job is not to show everything the database knows. Its job is to answer a narrower question: what matters now?
That is why the page is structured around:
- action queue
- alerts
- goals due soon
- events due soon
- calendar
- weather
- habits
- commitments
- subscriptions
The point is not breadth. The point is compression.
The Product Bet
Most personal systems fail because they separate planning from execution too aggressively. The user can maintain a beautiful set of goals, events, notes, and commitments, but still wake up to a blank operational surface.
Today fixes that by acting as the decision layer between stored context and actual daily behavior.
What Success Looks Like
Success for Today is simple:
- you open it and immediately know what needs a decision
- you can distinguish urgent from merely present
- you do not need to mentally join five separate parts of the system before acting
If that works, Today becomes the page that keeps the rest of the system alive.