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How Dmyor Works: One Vision, Five Modes
June 14, 2026·5 min read
Most planning tools stop exactly where the hard part begins
You've felt this. You write down a goal — "launch a SaaS," "get in the best shape of my life," "finally write the book" — and for about a day it feels like progress. You were honest with yourself. You named the thing. But a week later nothing has actually changed, because a goal sitting on its own has no edges. You can't do "launch a SaaS." There's nowhere to put your hands.
Dmyor is built on a single belief: a vision only becomes real when it moves through stages. First you break it down. Then you work it daily. Then you keep showing up. Each of those stages is a mode you can open, and together they're the whole workspace.
Here's how the five modes fit together.
DMYOR
VISIONLaunch a profitable SaaS in 18 months
☰PlanningBreak the vision into a tree
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▶ExecuteDo what matters today
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↻HabitsRepeat the daily reps
Underneath all three
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LibraryDocs + notes on every node
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JournalThe story as it happens
What each mode is actually for
You don't need all five on day one. But it helps to know what's waiting for you as your vision grows.
✓Planning — where you break the vision into a tree of milestones and actions, splitting each piece until it's small enough to actually start.
✓Execute — one focused page that pulls every doable item out of the tree into a today-list, so you're never staring at an 18-month map on a Tuesday.
✓Habits — the recurring reps under your plan, tracked with streaks, because milestones get hit by what you repeat, not by what you intend.
✓Library — documents and notes attached directly to the nodes they belong to, so your research lives where you'll actually use it.
✓Journal — a dated, plain-language record of the build in your own words, written for the version of you who'll want to remember how this went.
The one-line version
Planning decides what to do. Execute makes you do what matters today. Habits make sure you keep showing up. Library and Journal quietly hold everything you learn on the way.
Where to actually start
Don't try to set the whole thing up at once — that's just planning-as-procrastination in a nicer outfit.
Create one vision. Give it three milestones. Then tomorrow morning, open Execute and do the first small thing. That tiny loop — plan a little, do a little — is the entire system. Everything else is depth you reach for only when you need it.