Today, served à la carte.

Not a schedule to keep — a menu of things you could do. Each morning DayTable sets the table for your household: you mix and match, pick what fits today, and let the rest come back around on its own rhythm.

DayTable's day view: an hourly grid shared by Alex (teal) and Sam (coral) — the morning checked off, an amber now-line at midday, the evening still open.

The actual board — no mockup. Alex in teal, Sam in coral, the amber ember is now.

Open today's menu → A real, editable demo day. No account, nothing saved.

Why a menu?

A to-do list keeps a running tally of everything you didn't get to. It grows while you sleep. By Wednesday it's a monument to the week you fell behind on — and it never once asked what today could actually hold.

The “daily menu” — an idea we borrow gratefully from the writer Oliver Burkeman — is the opposite gesture. What's on offer has already been decided; your job is to choose, enjoy, and let the rest go. Nothing carries over as debt. Tomorrow the kitchen opens again, fresh.

DayTable runs your household's day that way. Nothing on the menu is pinned to a date — things recur on a cadence, “every three days”, not “Tuesday, 08:00”. Day templates set out the offerings; you compose today from them. A skipped run isn't a failure in red — it's simply back on the menu when its rhythm comes round. And when a day closes, it's written to your journal as a record, not a backlog.

A to-do list is a debt. A menu is a choice.

Set for two

One board, two people, side by side — not two inboxes to reconcile. Teal is one of you, coral the other, and the day shows whose turn is whose at a glance. Shared rhythm, no nagging.

Alex

Morning run, deep work, the plants on Tuesdays. Their thread of the day, in teal.

Sam

The slow coffee, lunch, cooking tonight. Their thread of the day, in coral.

It ends as a journal

When a day is done it files itself away — not as a backlog, as a record. Each finished day becomes plain markdown you own and can grep in 2040.

# Friday, 17 July

## Alex
- [x] Morning run · 06:40
- [x] Deep work block · 09:00
- [x] Groceries · 17:30

## Sam
- [x] Coffee & the slow start · 07:30
- [x] Water the plants · 08:00
- [x] Cook together · 18:30

_A full day. Nothing carried over._

Every finished day, written out like this. Peek at yesterday inside the demo.

Take it home

Self-host

Your data is a folder of JSON and markdown. Run it on any box you own.

docker run -p 8080:8080 -v ./data:/data ghcr.io/anadorr/daytable

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