# Wrap up your day

> Close the day in four short steps: see what you finished, decide what to do with what is left, leave yourself a note and stop.

Source: https://priortasks.com/docs/planning/evening-wrap-up/
Last updated: 2026-11-05

The evening wrap-up is a short, calm routine that keeps your task list honest. It works offline and uses no AI.

## Start it

- On **Today**, the **Wrap up the day** button appears in the header one hour before your working day ends. The end comes from your hours in [Settings → Planning](https://priortasks.com/docs/planning/planning-settings/), for that day of the week. Without hours, it is offered from 5 pm.
- On a phone, it appears as a line under the Today header at the same time.
- Search **Wrap up your day** in the command palette at any time (<kbd>Cmd</kbd>+<kbd>K</kbd>, or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>K</kbd> on Windows and Linux).

## The four steps

1. **Wins.** The tasks you completed today, your habit check-ins out of the habits due today, and the focus time from the [timer](https://priortasks.com/docs/planning/focus-timer/). If you finished nothing, the step says so and moves on.
2. **What's left.** Open tasks that were due or planned today or earlier, overdue first. Waiting and Backlog tasks are not listed. Choose what to do with each task:
   - **Move to** the next working day, or **Pick a day**.
   - **Keep** it where it is.
   - **Done** to complete it.

   **Move all to** a day moves every task you have not decided yet.
3. **A note for tomorrow.** One optional line of up to 160 characters, with suggestions such as "Start with" followed by a task you moved or kept.
4. **Close the day.** A short summary of what is done and moved.

## What moving does

Moving a task changes the date that made it a task of today: its due date if it was due by today, otherwise its planned day. A deadline that is later is never moved. If the task had a locked time, the time goes back to the planner. Every move shows a toast with **Undo**, and each row has its own **Undo**. **Done** goes through the usual completion, so repeats, XP and its own undo apply.

## After you close the day

Today's header button reads **Day closed** until midnight. Press it to open the wrap-up again. Your note appears at the top of Today the next morning, and stays for up to seven days, or until you press **Got it**. A long weekend keeps it.

## Turn it off

In **Settings → Planning → Rituals**, switch off **End-of-day wrap-up** to stop the button from showing. The command-palette entry keeps working.

## Good to know

- Tasks assigned to someone else in a shared project are left out.
- The wrap-up counts your own tasks and habits.
- **Catch up** is a shorter version of the same screen. It is opened from the **While you were away** card that appears on Today after three or more days without opening Prior, and it only handles overdue and due-today tasks.