I talk a lot about task managers. Some of you like to give me guff about it too. This time however, I have something a little different to introduce you: a habit managers. There are some things you do (almost) everyday. You wash the dishes, do some laundry, take out the trash (if you live in Japan), and keeping track of all this crap can be a hassle. You wind up forgetting things here and there. And because they’re small tasks, you might not want them intermingling with your usual GTD tasks. I sure don’t. And that’s why I’ve been using Daily Deeds for iPhone.

Daily Deeds is a great dumping ground for household chores and errands that you seem to wind up needing to do on a daily basis. I put things like dishes and laundry in there. I also wound up putting trash and workout in as well. It’s great for when you need to leave yourself small reminders, and don’t want another number on your GTD app’s badge. Everyday looks the same in Daily Deeds. It’s got a list of your tasks, and shows the date at the top. Tap on a deed’s arrow and you’ll get a calendar showing you when you actually did that deed. You can also email a PDF of your deeds. And it’s a very nicely laid-out PDF at that. Sadly, my workout deed hasn’t had a check in like a week. My dishes as well. But at least I’m putting the garbage out. It’s an extremely simple interface, and they stick with mostly native iPhone UI design practices.

The only downside I found was the inability to say, “this deed only gets done on certain days of the week.” I have to put out the garbage three times a week, so I don’t want “Trash” sitting in my list of deeds on the four days it can’t even go out. If I had the option of setting which days deeds were actionable, I’d be completely satisfied with Daily Deeds. It wouldn’t surprise me to see that option pop up in the near future though. Emailing the developer and asking for it wouldn’t hurt either. So do me a solid and lobby on customization’s behalf. Daily Deeds gets Brandon’s Seal of Quality (Like Nintendo’s, except that it actually means something.) You can pick up Daily Deeds in the App Store for $0.99.