The Day Planner for Founders Who Wear Every Hat
Strategy before 9am, hiring calls at noon, product decisions by 3pm. todovo gives founders a morning ritual to triage across every responsibility, focused execution to make real progress, and a weekly review to prove what actually shipped.
The founder focus problem
Context switching all day, every day
Strategy, operations, hiring, and product all demand your attention before lunch. Every context shift costs ten minutes of mental overhead, and by 4pm you've been everywhere but nowhere deeply enough.
Important things fall through the cracks
Investor follow-ups, team check-ins, product decisions — the high-stakes items that have no deadline still need to happen. Without a system, they drift to the bottom of an inbox until the silence becomes awkward.
Days never feel done
There's no clear boundary between "work" and "more work." When you're responsible for everything, the list is infinite. Without a daily ritual to open and close the day, burnout creeps in as ambient guilt.
Can't point to what shipped this week
The board meeting is on Friday and you've been incredibly busy — but what actually moved forward? Without a structured weekly record, "we made progress" is the best you've got.
How todovo helps founders run their day
Intentional mornings with meeting prep. Focused execution. Weekly proof of progress.
Morning ritual: triage across all responsibilities
The day planner surfaces everything categorized by urgency — overdue, due today, this week, future — across every project and area you own. Spend five minutes picking what actually matters today and dragging it into Tasks for today. Add prep notes to each meeting while you're there, so investor calls, team syncs, and one-on-ones start with context attached. The chaos becomes a brief.
Switch tasks without losing your place
Product, hiring, investors, ops: click a task, or press Ctrl+its number. Each task is a living document: add notes, write down your progress, and everything saves as you type. When you switch away and come back, your cursor is exactly where you left it. You just keep typing.
Built for power users, but you don't have to memorize a pile of shortcuts to feel like one.
An investor emails, a candidate needs an answer, someone stops by. Press Alt+Q, type it, and get back to work. At the end of the day you review every quick note and turn it into a task, add it to a note, or let it go. Hold Alt and the hints appear right on the screen. Alt+E brings back what you touched last. Ctrl+K finds anything.
On a Mac, Option for Alt and Command for Ctrl.
Weekly review: see what shipped
Every week, the weekly review surfaces completed tasks by project, what carried over, and where your time actually went. When the board asks what happened this week, you have a real answer — not a reconstructed memory.
Strategy, operations, and people — all connected
todovo connects your strategic projects, operational tasks, and the people you need to talk to. No more switching between a task manager, a notes app, a calendar, and a CRM. One tab holds the whole picture of your company and your day.
- Color-coded projects for each area — product, hiring, investors, ops
- People tracking for investors, advisors, and direct reports
- Meeting notes linked directly to tasks and follow-ups
- Weekly review with a project-by-project breakdown of what shipped
- End-of-day ritual to close the workday and silence the mental list
People pages for every key relationship
@mention an investor, advisor, or team lead in a task and they get a person page — with every task, note, and meeting ever linked to them. Account management without a CRM subscription.
Projects for every area you own
Create a project for each domain — Product, Fundraising, Hiring, Operations. Tasks carry color badges everywhere so context switching is visible, not invisible. At a glance you know where the week went.
Quiet by design — no notifications, no noise
No activity feeds, no badges, no social layer. todovo is intentionally calm — because a founder's attention is the scarcest resource in the company, and the app shouldn't be competing for it.
Run your day like you run your company — intentionally
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