Thanks for sharing this @Daryl_Mander. I presume that there is much relevant information elsewhere in your Dynalist that needs to be accessed for your daily to-dos. Do you sometimes put a shortcut into the date for this?
Nah. I do a few things to access my other lists but I donāt use shortcuts in the today section. What I do is I have my āAreasā set up as different Dynalist documents. That way if I need to flip between the today view and an āAreaā view, I can use the document pane.
Within those Areas I will sometimes have nested āspecial projectsā and lists that I want quicker access to. For stuff like that, I use the bookmarks tab.
Another thing I do is I always use Dynalist in my browser and by default I open up two tabs. One is on my today view, the other tab I can set to whatever, usually itāll be set to the Project or Area that I am working on during that day. My idea is that the 1st tab should always be set to Today (I also use the Today view as my GTD style inbox) and the second tab can be used for reference stuff.
So with all of those options combined, I donāt find I really need to put shortcuts into my Today list. I just either quickly click to the info I need via File or Bookmark pane, and then click back when I am done, or I have the other info open in Tab 2 and then I just click between the tabs to get the info.
Side note: I much prefer using the Desktop App but am stuck using the browser app because desktop app does not have the multi-tab/window option. I hope the Dynalist team introduce that soon, give the desktop app some love!
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Nice idea @Stephen_Dewitt.
I also run through a weekly review checklist but for me I just keep that in my head as it is fairly straightforward and easy to remember.
I like the idea of journalling into the notes section. Iāve struggled to find a good place or way to journal, these days I simply just add a completed to-do if there was something that day I wanted to remember I did (for example āHad a nice date night at that Sushi place with Irene this eveningā etc). I also tried journalling on a weekly basis, e.g. file away last week at the start of a new week, and when I do that I write a little weekly summary journal. But, heh, everything I try with journalling never seems to stick.
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Yea Iāve only ever journaled when my system has forced me to by keeping the day in focus until I manually file it away (and when I keep my summary super basic). Also Iād have no hope of remembering what I did several days later 
Edit: one other nice thing about journalling in the note section is that if you add a dynalist date function to each day, and sync with google calendar, your notes will appear in the ādescriptionā section of the event on google calendar, providing you with (1) another way to easily search your journal (i.e. via any calendar app of your choice which tends to be quite fast and nicely organised) and (2) another way to immortalize your journal by storing it within google
Edit 2: Iāve recently found a lot of benefit from adding a few emojis to the start of my journal to indicate how good the day was ā¦ makes me much more likely to interact with my entries by e.g. skimming those and checking why X was a particularly good / bad day etc ā¦ but anyway 
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Hi,
Thank you for uploading the 2019 Planner and making it available for everyone. I used it extensively last year!
Curious if you had already created a 2020 Planner and were planning on uploading it.
ā If not no worries, I can give it a shot-- Did you create a programmatically? I could create a json file with the appropriate dictionaries for each month, week, day but how would I upload/format for dynalist. ā
Thanks!
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Maybe my ā¾ļø Forever Calendar 1.0 will safe you some time. If I find some time I could extend the python script to something similar like in this this template.
Great, thank you!
FYI all I have updated the original post in this thread so it now also contains a link to my updated 2020 yearly planner template 
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For what itās worth, hereās my method of creating a plan:
- PLAN
- !(2020-12-15)
- 12am Dentist
- !(2020-12-18)
- Feed the cat
- !(2020-12-15)
(these are for illustration, not actual plans)
I find with the dynamic nature of Dynalist, I just create dates as something comes up, and I donāt need a complete calendar. Dynalist automatically displays them in full date format with the Weekday, and the calendar popup makes it easy to pick a date.
Iāve made a 2021 version of the planner, the link is added to the original post and also you can find it here:
https://dynalist.io/d/TPPf_7NR15xgvmPTEZn_nELl#collapse&theme=default
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This is so great. Does anyone have one for 2022?
Are you familiar with Google Sheets (or excel) autofill?
Take the 2021 google sheet and drag the autofill box down to generate a 2022 one, and post it here if you can
Sorry, I am not following at all. I am not very good with spreadsheets, donāt really know what you mean by āthe autofill box.ā I canāt even find the google sheet you mentioned! Sorry, Iām a bit dense I fear.
Hey all, just FYI I have a task in my to do list to create the 2022 planner template some time next week. So if you are struggling to do it yourself and donāt mind waiting a bit then hang in there and watch this space!
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Fantastic! Thank you very much.
HI all, apols for the delay, hereās the 2022 planner template:
https://dynalist.io/d/SFiJoqUmtvBnEyc-uauepGiw#collapse&theme=default
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Thank you so much for taking the time to make this!
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ditto 