1Build the wishlist
Each of the three opens on the month: what you visited, read or watched, and what you planned for it. The bucket list itself, everything you still want to do, is one tap away behind the list button in the toolbar. Places are grouped by category there, and books and movies by genre. Its search looks past the title too, into a place's region and trip type, a book's author, the genre, your notes and the people you shared it with.
There are four ways to add something:
- The "+" button on the Places, Books or Movies screen.
- Agenda's "+" menu, whose bottom row is Place, Book, Movie and Person.
- The share sheet. Share a page from Safari or any app, choose Book, Movie or Place, and Dawnlet adds it to your list with the link in its notes the next time you open the app.
- Drag and drop. Drop text or a link onto the Books or Movies screen and it becomes a new book to read or movie to watch. Handy on iPad, with Safari open beside Dawnlet.
Capture things where you find them. A friend's recommendation or a review you're reading is two taps from the share sheet, so the list grows without you having to remember anything later.
Each module has its own details, and all three take a category, tags and, if you want, their own colour and icon:
| Places | Books | Movies | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where it's from | Country / Region | Author, genre | Genre |
| How | Trip type, from Solo to Staycation | Physical, ebook or audiobook | TV, streaming or theater |
| Who with | Went with | — | Watched with |
| Dates | Start and end of the visit | Started and finished | The day you watched it |
| Afterwards | 1 to 5 stars, notes | 1 to 5 stars, notes | 1 to 5 stars, notes |
When a month is empty, the screen tells you how many things are waiting on your bucket list, with a Plan one link straight to it.
2Mark it done
Tap the check on a row to mark it visited, read or watched. Dawnlet fills in the date for you: a place or movie with no date yet gets today, and a book keeps the day you started it and gets today as the day you finished. Finish a book or a movie this way and Dawnlet asks for a quick star rating, which you can skip. Places don't ask; rate a trip in its editor.
Books have one more state than the others, because a book takes a while:
| Status | What it means | Where it shows |
|---|---|---|
| To read | On the list, not started | The bucket list |
| Reading | A start date, not finished yet | Agenda, every day since you picked it up |
| Read | Started and finished | The month you finished it |
Set a book to Reading the day you open it. It stays on your Agenda as a quiet reminder until you finish, and the days between start and finish count towards your reading insights.
3Let trips and reads run for days
A trip isn't a day and a book isn't an evening, so a place's visit and a book's read are spans of days. Both ends count: June 1 to June 8 is eight days. A movie is one sitting, so it keeps a single date.
- On Agenda, a trip or a read shows on every day it covers, so looking back at last Wednesday still tells you that you were in Kyoto. On a trip that runs several days the row says where you are in it, such as "Day 3 of 8".
- On the month screen, Places lists every trip with any day in that month. Books splits into Finished (listed in the month you finished it), Reading and Planned.
- In the numbers, a trip that crosses into a new month gives each month only its own days. January 28 to February 3 counts four days in January and three in February, so a year of "days away" adds up to the real length of your trips.
Ticking a place off from its row records a one-day visit for today. For a longer trip, open the place and set the start and end dates.
4One place at a time
You can't be in two places at once, and Dawnlet holds your trips to that: two visits can't share a day. The one exception is the day you travel. A trip can end on the same day the next one begins, so flying home from France and out to Egypt on the same day is fine.
| First trip | Second trip | Allowed? |
|---|---|---|
| June 1 to June 8 | June 8 to June 12 | Yes, they only meet on the travel day |
| June 1 to June 8 | June 5 to June 12 | No, June 5 to 8 are in both |
| June 1 to June 8 | June 9 to June 12 | Yes |
If the dates you pick clash, the editor says which trip is in the way ("These dates overlap your trip to France") before anything is saved, so you can fix whichever one is wrong.
For a multi-stop holiday, log each city as its own place, with each leg ending the day the next begins. Every stop then gets its own rating, notes and company, and your days away still add up to the whole trip.
5Plan the next one
A wishlist only moves if things come off it. Dawnlet's guided planning Plus does that from Agenda's planning button:
- Plan My Week earmarks a place or a book for a run of days, or a movie for a single evening.
- Plan My Month earmarks things for the month as a whole.
A plan never marks anything done. Planned items appear on Agenda on their days and under Planned on the month screen, and once a place is visited its plan simply becomes history. Two notifications follow your plans, and both are off until you turn them on:
| Notification | When it arrives | Tier |
|---|---|---|
| Planned for today | 9:00 by default, one notification covering every movie, book and place planned for the day | Free |
| Mid-month check-in | The 15th, in the evening, only if something planned for the month is still open | Plus |
When something is planned across several days, Agenda offers its check-off on the last day of the span, not part-way through.
6Read the month
The month list and the bucket list are free. Turn on Insights Plus and each month gains a chart and four numbers:
| Chart | Breakdowns | Numbers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Places | Days away | By trip type, who you went with | Trips, days away, countries / regions, average rating |
| Books | Books on the go, day by day | By genre, by format | Finished, started, days reading, average rating |
| Movies | Films watched | By genre, who you watched with | Films watched, average rating, genres, how you watched most often |
All three also feed Reports for any date range and Look Back, a short written review of your week or month, both Plus.
7Collect the badges
Four badges come from the bucket lists. The tiered ones come in bronze, silver and gold:
| Badge | How to earn it | Bronze · Silver · Gold |
|---|---|---|
| The End | Finish a book, watch a movie or visit a place from your list, once | — |
| Bookworm | Books read | 3 · 12 · 50 |
| Film Buff | Movies watched | 10 · 50 · 200 |
| Explorer | Places visited | 3 · 10 · 25 |
The sample places, books and movies a new account starts with never count, even if you finish them, and a badge once earned is yours for good. All badges are free and live in Browse.
Explorer counts places, not trips abroad. A new café, a park across town or a museum on a rainy Sunday all count, so log the small adventures too.
§Under the hood
Each place, book and movie is a single record: whether it's done, an optional rating, and its dates. For places and books those dates are a start and an end, both whole calendar days and both included. Everything else is worked out from that whenever it's shown.
- "Reading" isn't stored. It's simply a book with a start date and no finish, so there's no extra status to fall out of step.
- The one-place rule lives on the server. Dawnlet's database refuses a visit that overlaps another, so the rule holds even when two devices save at once. The app checks first only so it can name the trip in the way.
- Who you went with is your People. The names on a trip or a film are the same people as on the People screen, and a new name becomes a person when you save.
- Months are filtered on your device. Each list is loaded once, so stepping from month to month is instant.
The bucket lists are free, up to 500 places, 500 books and 500 movies. Plus lifts that limit and adds Insights, Reports, Look Back, the planning flows and the mid-month check-in.