If there are two things working from home has improved, it’s online scheduling and calendars - the simplicity of checking what we have pencilled in each day keeps us prepared, on task and calm. However, weekly to-do services are scarce, with many of us just scrawling our day’s jobs on a sticky note, or even worse, just keeping a mental note…*shudders*. Weekly schedules can be as organised but far-less cluttered than your online calendar… Your Week is a new service with that purpose in mind, weekly task management.

To join Your Week, go to their site, and either create an account or just automatically sign in with your Gmail/Facebook login (that’s what I did, easy peasy). This is a basic tool, in every sense of the word. The interface is a single page that lies on a dark-grey background, with two columns - the ‘This Week’ column for your current week, and the ‘Later’ column for your more long-term tasks/goals. There is also an account button quietly tucked away in the top right corner which allows you to ‘Manage Reminders’ and ‘Connect to Calendar’, and ‘Sign Out’. To create tasks, click in ‘+ Add a task…’ and start typing, then hit enter once you’re happy with your entry. To delete a task, simply ‘backspace’ until the task disappears. Every task in your list will be accompanied by a tick box to its left for you to click upon completion.

You can drag-and-drop tasks between the columns if a task becomes more or less immediate. If you want that rewarding feeling of seeing a task finally completed, ticked items remain in your columns unless/until you delete them obviously. There is no limit to how many tasks you can have in these columns, as far as I can tell anyway, I added absolutely loads. 

I have to be honest, this tool is far from thrilling, its remit is that it helps prioritise the tasks that matter, and in the long run help you achieve your goals. Personally I feel it’s functional but lacks the excitement to be goal-orientated. Its layout and overall design doesn’t help its cause, it is not especially inviting - maybe it’s the lack of colour and branding, but it feels pretty boring. By connecting to your calendar, the app just becomes an extension of your calendar, which isn’t its remit, you could very well do without - and its own lack of features limit it from being a true champion of its cause. There is a similar app out there called Tweek, which was reviewed by Creator Tools Weekly a few months ago. Tweek contains more features without diluting its layout or remit, such as colour-coding to categorise tasks, individual days’ within the week, a ‘Someday’ column for more long-term stuff, arrows to select past and future weeks (without it feeling like a calendar), and it even has a logo! Your Week could be something really quite good, it just lacks the spark it needs to stand out from the crowd.

All-in-all, Your Week is a capable and straightforward to-do list app. No frills and no spills, a safe pair of hands, but exciting it is not. We’re in a period where functionality and simplicity are top trumps, Your Week certainly falls into these categories, is it too simple? Possibly. 

Your week, you get 👍🏼👍🏼/5