Focus on a Single Task Per Day!

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A new month means a new opportunity to refocus on our goals. In the daily grind, we often get caught up in urgent tasks that don’t really move toward our long-term ambitions.

Focusing on one key task per day can make all the difference.

Inspired by a conversation with a friend, I’ve found that writing down a single task each day helps sharpen focus and drive meaningful progress. This single task should define the day. It doesn’t mean that it’s worth to do only one thing every day, but this task should be top priority: something that, if completed, will make the day feel productive and purposeful.

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Introducing the Focus Calendar

To help you try this method, I created a free tool: the Focus Calendar. I designed it to be simple. Just choose your one task for the day, focus on it, and track your progress over time.

It looks like a regular monthly calendar PDF, but with additional fields for month’s priority and additional notes.

You can generate a printable calendar template for any month on my website, PlanTheFlow, and use it to plan your most important task every day.

Check out the Focus Calendar here!

How I Created the Tool

I had a lot of fun building this project! Initially, I wanted to create the tool using only pure CSS, and I was pretty successful with that. I used the @media print query and styled everything for printing. The biggest challenge with this approach was inconsistencies between browsers, but surprisingly, it worked well across most major browsers.

Then came mobile Safari 😄. While it looked okayish, Safari added some unexpected print metadata, shrinking the design. It was more or less acceptable, but I wasn’t fully satisfied.

ReactPDF to the Rescue!

In my second and final approach, I switched to using the ReactPDF library. It’s much more predictable and works consistently across all browsers I tested. The only downside is that now my codebase has two solutions—one with pure CSS as a fallback when someone uses the default print behavior and the other with ReactPDF as a main solution under a button.

Get your Focus Calendar for October, and try this method to see how it helps you stay on track! More info about the idea of a “single task per day” is below the calendar generator on the website.

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