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# Your Today page: what's due and how to check it off

Today is your daily care checklist: the care, chores and to-dos due today for every animal, group and place you look after.

On a phone, tap **Today** in the bottom bar. On a computer, choose **Today** under **Shortcuts** in the left menu.

## Read your day

Buttons at the top appear when they apply to you: **Collect eggs** if you keep egg-laying animals, **Your care duties** once you run a care plan or someone asks you to help with one, **Care plans**, **Feeding**, and **Who can help**.

The **Your day** line counts what is ready now, what comes later and what is done.

When a daily routine for one animal goes three days without being logged, a card at the top asks **Still doing it?** Choose **Log today**, **Pause this plan** or **Not now**.

Care is grouped by place (set up in **Locations**), such as **Lindgren Heritage Farm › North Pasture**. Other care sits under **Individual animals**. Each row is one task for:

- an animal, with its photo,
- a whole group, such as a herd or flock (a people icon, labeled **Whole group** on a computer), or
- a chore, a job for the place itself like walking the fence line (a building icon, labeled **Chore** on a computer).

**Due · 7:00 AM** means a task is ready now. **Later today · 4:00 PM** means it's coming up later.

A row can also say who is responsible: **Assigned to you**, **Responsible:** and a name, or **Needs assignment**. It matters when you share care (see [Assign care and manage your care duties](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/assign-care-and-manage-your-care-duties-1sj40se/)). Look after your animals alone? You can ignore **Needs assignment**.

![Today rows for Magnus and Isla with Mark done and Refused](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/bda/3b6/375/ae45d.png?width=780)

## Check an item off

Use the row's main button:

- **Mark done** finishes a simple task, such as a reminder.
- **Done now** finishes a chore, a feeding or a simple group task in one tap.
- **Complete** opens a short record form when the task needs details, such as a health check.
- **Complete early** finishes an item that is due later today.
- **Refused** on a feeding row records that the animal didn't eat.

On a simple group task, a line such as **For all 3** lists the animals it covers. To leave one out, choose **Change** and uncheck it before **Done now**.

On a phone, some labels are shorter: **Done**, **Do early** and **Note**. On a computer, the done buttons show only a check mark, and **Complete** shows a clipboard. Point at a button to see its name.

When a place has two or more chores due, **Done · all** finishes them at once.

Checked something off by mistake? Choose **Undo** (or **Undo all**) in the message that appears, or on the item in **Done today**, within 10 minutes. A record it saved stays on the animal, marked **Entry undone**, and **Delete** in the record's three-dot menu removes it. After the 10 minutes, an owner or co-owner can choose **Remove** on an animal's item in **Done today** to take a mistaken entry off its records.

![A whole-group task with Complete and a place chore with Done now](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/7ef/4b6/2c3/c3838.png?width=780)

## Skip, snooze or leave a note

**Add note** leaves a message for whoever does the task, and the task stays open.

The three-dot button on each row holds more choices:

- **Snooze 1 hour** or **Snooze 1 day** puts off an animal task or reminder.
- **Skip** is for a task that won't happen today.
- **Mark N/A** is for a task that doesn't apply this time.
- **Care plan details** shows the plan the task came from.
- **Can't do it** hands back a task that was assigned to you.

**Skip** opens **Skip this care item**. Choose a **Reason**, such as **Not needed** or **Out of supplies**. You can add a **Private note** that only owners and co-owners see. Then choose **Skip item**.

![Skip this care item with Reason and Private note](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/64b/a5c/af5/8d31a.png?width=716)

## What happens next

Finished and skipped items move to **Done today**, with who did each and any skip reason. **View record** opens an animal's saved record.

Below that, **Missed** lists earlier tasks nobody logged, and **Recent notes** shows care notes. Choose **Add follow-up record** on either one to record what happened.

If you coordinate a plan with overdue alerts, an **Overdue** section lists tasks past their finish time. Check on each, then choose **Acknowledge**. To look back further or fix a record, see [Care history](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/care-history-see-what-was-done-5qyes7/).

![Done today showing a helper's completion and a skipped chore](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/cd4/d51/795/4cdca.png?width=780)

## When Today is empty

- **Make room for your day**: you haven't added an animal yet. Choose **Add an animal**.
- **Tell us how your day goes**: you have animals but no care plans. Describe your feeding routine and review the plans Creatures drafts, or choose **Build it by hand**.
- **All clear**: nothing is due today.
- **All done** or **Today's care is done**: everything due today is finished.

![Empty Today page with Add an animal](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/214/c58/4f3/b66ea.png?width=780)

Two shortcuts also live here. **Record animal care** turns a quick note into record drafts (see [Quick capture](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/quick-capture-turn-a-note-into-records-1gwfz2u/)). Scanning a place's QR sign opens that place's page. When care is due there, **Open today's care here** shows Today for just that place (see [QR signs for places](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/qr-location-signs-and-place-chores-on-today-otbo3v/)).

### Related information

- [Create and manage a care plan](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/care-plans-f11gsu/)
- [Set up feeding and log feedings](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/set-up-feeding-and-log-feedings-efifrz/)
- [Plan your day and week on Today](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/plan-your-day-and-week-on-today-1h8yme5/)
- [Get help with daily care: invite a care helper](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/get-help-with-daily-care-invite-a-care-helper-19xf6gl/)