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Yearly reports

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Yearly reports are available on the Pro and Ultra plans. Free and Basic users do not get yearly reports. See Plans and pricing.

On January 1, TellDone generates an annual review of your year. It covers every month of your TellDone history for the year and is built from your monthly reports.

Sections​

Year in numbers​

A summary table at the top shows your totals for the year:

  • Tasks completed and average per month
  • Notes created
  • Events scheduled
  • Ideas captured (if any)

AI narrative​

The AI analysis takes a strategic perspective:

  • Year Overview - the defining story of your year in 5-7 points
  • Top Wins - your 3-5 most significant accomplishments and why they matter long-term
  • Unresolved Issues - problems that persisted across the year
  • Patterns & Correlations - recurring themes that span months, seasonal rhythms
  • Ideas - creative themes that emerged from your ideas
  • What Improved & What to Stop - areas where you grew compared to the start of the year, and habits or activities that didn't help you
  • Forecast - where things are heading based on current trajectory
  • Priorities for Next Year - top 3 recommended priorities with how to measure success
  • Top-5 Tags - your most active tags of the year, when the report includes them

Data appendices​

After the narrative, the report includes auto-generated appendices:

  • Monthly dynamics - month-by-month table showing completed tasks, pending tasks, notes, events, and trend arrows
  • Quarterly analysis - Q1 through Q4 comparison of productivity metrics
  • Chronic tasks - tasks that have been pending for over 90 days (a stricter threshold than the 14 days used in monthly reports)
  • Ideas of the year - all idea-type notes grouped by month
  • Tags of the year - top 20 tags by frequency

Unlike monthly reports, yearly reports do not include burnout detection, areas of responsibility, or 80/20 analysis. The focus is strategic and long-term, rather than short-term fixes.

How it is built​

Numbers and tables come straight from your data. The written analysis is AI-generated from your monthly reports, so it can spot patterns that span the whole year.

Viewing yearly reports​

On iPhone, yearly reports use the same section layout as monthly reports: a summary, collapsible sections, month-by-month bar charts, and the quarterly table. The web app shows the same reports with a slightly different layout.

  • Period navigator - use previous and next buttons to move between years, or open the year picker to jump to an earlier year. You can open the current year too.
  • The copy button (clipboard icon) copies the full report so you can paste it anywhere.
  • Today - on iPhone, tap Today to jump back to the current year.
  • Search - on iPhone, search finds text in the reports saved on your device.
  • Auto-refresh - when the yearly report is generated, the screen refreshes automatically.
  • No report for this period - shown for a year without a report, such as the current year. Its report appears on January 1 of the next year.

To view yearly reports:

  1. Go to the Reports tab
  2. Tap Year
  3. Use the navigator buttons or the year picker to switch between years

Report language​

Reports are written in your content language (the language you speak). In the app, section headings follow your app language. In report emails: if your content language is one of the 20 languages the app is available in, the whole email, subject included, is in that language. For other content languages, the subject, headings and labels use your app language, and only the written summary uses your content language.

Email delivery​

The yearly report email arrives on January 1 and goes to your account email. It's on by default. To turn it off, go to Settings > Notifications > Email.

The yearly email is a short summary: a month-by-month chart, your key numbers, top wins and focus areas, and a button to open the full report.

Subject format: "John, your 2026 in TellDone · 208 tasks · Strong". The last word sums up your year: Exceptional, Strong, Steady, or Challenging.

tip

Even a partial year gives useful results: if some monthly reports are missing, TellDone uses your weekly reports instead.

See also​

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