How I Use Self-Manager.net Daily as a Power User (And Why I Depend on It)

I’ve become a power user of my own creation — and I genuinely depend on Self-Manager.net for my daily tasks, events, and long-term plans.

What started as a personal productivity experiment slowly turned into the tool I rely on to run my business, plan my year, and stay on top of dozens of parallel projects without losing my mind.

In this article I’ll walk you through exactly how I use Self-Manager every day, from yearly planning down to the tiny details of a task, and how the AI features act like my personal 24/7 assistant.

Starting From the Top: Yearly, Quarterly, and Monthly Goals

Everything begins with long-term direction.

Yearly & Quarterly Planning

At the start of every year, I set my main goals: revenue, product milestones, marketing initiatives, learning goals, and personal projects.

From there:

At the start of each quarter, I create a dedicated quarter plan table in Self-Manager.
This table includes the big rocks: feature releases, launches, content campaigns, financial targets, and important life events.

Monthly Planning

At the start of every month, I break those yearly and quarterly goals into a more concrete month plan table.

This lets me answer:

What must move forward this month?
Which projects get focus?
What experiments am I running?

From there, I continue with weekly planning, translating those priorities into what actually needs to happen in the next seven days.

Pinned Tables: My Command Center

To keep all of this accessible, I pin my most important tables:

Quarter plan
Month plan
Week plan
A few key project tables (like Self-Manager, marketing, client work, etc.)

All of these live in the Pinned Tables view, so with one click I can:

See their completion percentage
Jump straight to any of them
Get a quick sense of how my quarter, month, and key projects are progressing

Pinned tables are basically my command center for the entire system.

The Big Picture: Week & Month Overview Pages

At certain moments I zoom out and switch from daily details to the big picture.

Week View

From the Week page, I can see at a glance:

How much time I logged each day
How many tasks I had each day
How many tables contributed to that day

Below the weekly overview, I see all the tables and their tasks for that period, and with one click I can open any table in full view. It’s a fast way to understand what the week really looked like, not just what I remember.

Month View

The Month page works similarly, but for a full month:

Every day shows completion percentage, tasks, and time spent
I can see patterns: heavy weeks, lighter ones, and where I overcommitted
All tables used in that month are listed below for quick navigation

These overviews are extremely useful when I review my work with AI or need to report progress.

Daily Planning: Where Execution Happens

We live one day at a time, so this is where most of the action happens.

Every day, I make sure my tasks reflect progress toward:

Yearly → Quarterly → Monthly → Weekly goals.

Each table I work with daily acts like a focused mini-project. Inside each table:

I use time tracking for each task, with a built-in timer
I can adjust estimated completion time whenever reality changes
Every table stores time meta-information like:
- Last edited
- Created at
- Started at
- Completed at (if time tracking is enabled)

Tasks and tables also support comments, which I use heavily:

I jot down context from specific days: what I did, why I made certain decisions, what’s next
I drop in YouTube videos I plan to watch (music, tech talks, business podcasts) and play them directly inside Self-Manager
For larger projects, I link smaller tables to specific tasks, so I can jump with one click to the deeper layer of that project

Navigation stays super fast, even when I’m juggling several big initiatives at once.

Keeping Reality in Sync: Ordering, Notes, and Logs

Real life rarely follows the perfect plan, and my system reflects that.

Sometimes I don’t execute tasks in the order I originally wrote them.
Other times I quickly add tasks during the day and clean them up later.

When that happens, I always re-arrange tasks into the order I actually did them. I can:

Use drag and drop to reorder
Or use the up/down arrows on each task

This makes later reviews much more accurate.

I also enable table logs most of the time. Logs capture events like:

When I edited a task
When I changed its status or priority
Other key interactions

Why? Because logs give me a detailed timeline of what happened on that table on a specific day — and that’s incredibly powerful when I:

Want to understand what really happened during a hectic period
Ask the AI to summarize or review that table

AI loves data and context, and table logs provide both.

A Workspace That Feels Like Home

Productivity is easier when the tool feels personal.

In Self-Manager.net I can:

Set a custom background image on the left sidebar
Add a top hero image for each individual table
Or use a global image that appears on all tables that don’t have their own

These images can be motivational, aesthetic, or tied to the project’s theme.

It sounds simple, but it makes a difference: when I open the app, it feels like my space, not just another generic dashboard.

Weekly & Monthly Reviews with AI

Planning is nothing without review.

Weekly AI Review

At the end of each week, I:

Open the Week view
Ask AI to summarize what happened — what I completed, what slipped, where my time went
Follow up with specific questions:
- “What did I spend most of my time on?”
- “Which projects advanced the most?”
- “What should I focus on next week?”

Monthly AI Review

At the end of the month, I repeat the process at a higher level:

Use the Month view as input
Ask AI for a thorough summary: achievements, weak spots, trends
Compare it to my monthly and quarterly goals

These reviews help me adjust course instead of drifting.

Using AI With My Most Important Tables

Some tables are especially critical: big projects, strategic plans, or long-term goals.

For those, at certain intervals I:

Summarize the table with AI
Or chat about it to make sure I’m taking the right steps

I might ask:

“Are there tasks that look stuck or unclear?”
“What should I prioritize in this project over the next two weeks?”
“Based on this table, what risks do you see?”

For large project tables, this feels like having a project analyst on call.

My 24/7 PhD-Level Assistant

With all the 10 powerful AI features built into Self-Manager.net, I often joke that this app is my 24/7 PhD assistant:

It helps me turn chaos (emails, notes, ideas) into structured tasks
It reviews my weeks and months without me spending an hour writing reports
It gives suggestions, summaries, and perspectives that are hard to get alone

And because all of this sits on top of a date-centric system, the AI always has context: what happened, when it happened, and how much I did.

Proud of What It Is — Excited for What’s Next

Self-Manager.net started as a tool I built for myself. Over time, it became:

My planner
My daily execution engine
My review system
And my AI co-pilot

I use it every single day and genuinely depend on it to keep my work and life moving in the right direction.

I’m very proud of what the app has become — and I’m even more excited about what’s coming next.

👉 If you’d like to try the same workflow, log in to Self-Manager.net, explore the demo tables, and start building your own system on top of it.