A fixed program is a well-known schedule that follows its own cycle, such as Daf Yomi or Nach Yomi. Everyone follows the same sequence of portions, so you do not choose the pace. You choose when to join. Some programs offer their own choices. Shnayim Mikra lets you pick your own weekdays, Pirkei Avos lets you choose how long your cycle spans when its end date is known, and programs that can be divided let you take only chosen parts. Fixed programs are marked "(Fixed cycle)" in your list.

A flexible plan is one you build yourself: pick a book (or your own task), then set either a daily amount or a date to finish by. Yom.Life works out which part you learn each day.

No. A fixed program runs on the calendar, so you join at today's portion. When it ends you can carry on into the next cycle. The box "Continue with the next cycle" is ticked by default. Untick it to stop at the end of the current cycle.

Any habit: Exercise, Meditate, walking, push-ups, stretching and more.

Yes. For your own plans, use "Start from" and pick the place you reached. For a book or section from the list, "Start from" is a dropdown of its valid chapters, and your choice is kept when you edit the plan. For a book you add yourself, you type the chapter number. Example: you have already learned Nach up to Judges 8, so you start at Judges 9. Nothing before that point is scheduled.

You choose how the next cycle begins:

• On a fixed Jewish date. You choose a Hebrew month and day, and the next cycle starts on the next matching date on or after the end of the previous cycle. In a leap year, Adar means Adar II.
• Right after the previous cycle, starting the day after the last learning day of the previous cycle.

No. Only the first cycle starts where you chose. Every later cycle starts at the beginning of the book and covers all of it. Example: a Nach plan starting at Judges 9 and finishing in 365 days. Cycle 1 goes from Judges 9 to the end of II Chronicles. Cycle 2 starts at Joshua 1 and covers the whole of Nach, so the part you skipped is picked up. Nothing is left out.

The next cycle opens the day after the last learning day of the previous one, and the first task falls on the next day you actually learn. The same settings apply afresh to each cycle. A 365-calendar-day target is counted again from the new cycle's first day. Because later cycles cover the whole book, the daily portions are recalculated and may differ slightly from the first cycle.

Choose a daily amount if you know how much you can do each day, and Yom.Life shows when you will finish. Choose a finish date or duration if you have a goal, and Yom.Life shows the daily portion. The form always shows the start date, end date and daily amount live as you change things.

You can set a duration as a number plus days, weeks, months or years, counted from your start date. Weeks are 7 days each: 3 weeks is 21 days, counting your start day, so 20 July to 9 August is 21 days. Months and years are real calendar months and years, not 30 or 365 days. Example: starting 15 January, 1 month ends 14 February. If the start day does not exist in the target month, that month is shortened to its last day: 1 month from 31 January ends 27 February. You can also pick a finish date. The "Start date" and "Finish by" buttons show both dates and open a calendar with the Hebrew date under every day, arrows, a Today button and quick jumps to a month or year. You pick the day on that calendar; you cannot type a Hebrew date. Yom.Life turns a finish date into a number of days counting both the first and last day: starting 27 October 2026 and finishing 26 October 2027 is 365 days. A repeat uses that same number of days for the next cycle.

A target in learning days counts only the days you actually learn. If you skip Shabbat or a holiday, your end date moves later. A target in calendar days is a fixed period. Days off stay inside it, and the daily portions grow to fit. Example: a 365-calendar-day target with one skipped day has 364 learning days. The same applies to weeks: 4 weeks in calendar days is 28 days from your start day, and 4 weeks in learning days is 28 days that you actually learn.

Tasks never use fractions like "1.3 chapters". Each task names an exact range, such as "Chapters 3-5" or "Pages 8-10". For books split by verse, such as Tanach and Tehillim, a day can start or end at a verse in the middle of a chapter, and the task then names it, for example "Psalm 119:1-48". In chapter mode, tasks use whole chapters. Whether chapters stay whole for verse-based books depends on the setting below.

Strict (the default) keeps chapters whole when that stays reasonably close to an even split, and otherwise cuts at a whole verse. Psalm 119 is cut at its traditional 96/97 point. Relaxed makes each day as even as possible, even if that splits chapters. A verse is never split, and the balancing takes the length of the verses into account so that no verse falls through the cracks. Each task names the exact range, up to the verse. This applies to your own plans, not to fixed programs.

For each plan you choose what happens on Shabbat (learn, skip, or only Shabbat) and on Yom Tov. Tisha B'Av has its own Learn or Skip choice, separate from Yom Kippur. Rosh Chodesh is marked on the real Rosh Chodesh days, including both days when it lasts two.

Hebrew dates appear in the month calendar, the day view, the overview, your plan summary, the print table, the booklet, the pocket cards and in CSV and ICS exports. In the booklet, each event line shows the Gregorian and the Hebrew date. On a pocket card, each day row has a Hebrew date column. In an ICS file, the full Hebrew date is in the event description, not in the title. The "Start date" and "Finish by" buttons show both dates, and the calendar they open shows the Hebrew date under every day. You choose days on that regular calendar, so you cannot type a Hebrew date. The one place where you choose a Hebrew month and day is the repeat option "On a fixed Jewish date".

Only if you choose it. It is off by default. The evening date depends on the location or city set in your profile, so set it up first. Without it, each day is the normal calendar day on your own device.

Yours. Today's portion follows the date on your device and moves on at your local midnight.

Yes. Task names can be shown in English, Hebrew (with Hebrew numerals) or transliterated, whatever language the site itself is in. For transliteration you can choose a style: Ashkenazi (the default), Sefardi or Hassidic.

English, Hebrew, Spanish, French, Russian and Yiddish. Book names, screens and printouts follow your language. Books that exist only in one language are shown in the matching site language by default. Turn on "Also show books in other languages" to see the rest.

No. Without an account, nothing is saved on our side. Your plans stay in your browser tab and survive a reload, but are gone once you close the tab. If you register later, your plans and settings move into your account. With an account, your plans follow you across devices.

Yes. You can preview it first, choose a date range, paper size (European or American), portrait or landscape and one of five font sizes, and add a tick box before each task. A booklet layout (fold and staple) and a pocket card (one week per card) are also available. The booklet shows the Gregorian and the Hebrew date on each event line, and the pocket card has a Hebrew date column for every day. Printouts carry a small yom.life footer.

Yes. You can export your schedule as ICS (for calendar apps) or CSV (for spreadsheets). The Hebrew date is in the CSV, and in an ICS file it is in each event's description. If a plan has a time of day, it is used as the event time.

Yes. A plan can have an optional time, such as "9:30 Daf Hayomi". It appears first and orders your day. It is shown and exported, and Yom.Life sends no reminders. Exported ICS events have no alarm.

Yes. Exercise tasks use metric or imperial units, set in your profile. You can optionally raise the target automatically as you progress.