Here's the whole thing, in seven honest steps.

Decide what actually gets your attention.

Nine default areas are there if you want them all, but most people only turn on three or four to start — plus you can add your own if none of them fit.

Nothing shows up in your account that you didn't choose.

Say what you're actually trying to do.

A name, and the life area it belongs to. That's the minimum — everything else is optional.

If you want more detail, add:

Skip the parts you don't care about — you can always fill them in later.

Turn the vague version into a real list.

This is where "I should really do this" becomes a set of things you can literally check off.

Vague goals are hard to start. Specific ones aren't.

Actually put it on a day.

Every task gets:

This is the step that turns "someday" into an actual appointment.

If it should happen again, say so once.

Daily, weekly, monthly, custom days — set the pattern and it keeps reappearing on its own. Works well for exercise, money check-ins, family time, meditation, anything you'd otherwise have to remember yourself.

Then just deal with today.

Open the Today screen and there it is. Check things off as you go. Ran out of time for one? Push it to tomorrow — or wherever actually makes sense.

Every so often, check if it's actually working.

What's finished, what's overdue, how consistent your habits have been, how each goal is tracking — all in one view, so you know what to keep doing and what to change.