Part of Orca
Orca Today · The one place to start the day
The work is done. It is waiting for a yes. Start here, every morning.
Today is one stream of cards. Each card is something Orca has finished, or something it genuinely cannot decide without you: a reply it has drafted, a meeting it has found a slot for, an email it is not sure how you would answer. Under every card, the same three buttons. Approve, Edit, Discard. Beside the stream, your diary for the day, the things you have promised people, and your tasks. That is the whole screen.
Today is the landing screen in Orca's simple mode. Everything on it comes from the same approval paths as the rest of the app, so a yes here is the same yes as anywhere else.
Orca works. Today is where you say yes.
Nothing on this screen is a to-do. It is all done-pending-approval, or a question only you can answer.
Overnight and between meetings
Autopilot triages what arrived, drafts where it can, works the scheduling threads, drafts follow-ups after meetings. All of that produces cards.
The cards queue up
One stream, sorted by priority or by time. A chip on each says what it is: Reply ready, Needs decision, Scheduling, Follow-up. No tabs, no per-type sections to click through.
You clear it
Approve, Edit, Discard. Edit takes a one-line instruction and redrafts. When the stream is empty it says "You're clear", and it means it.
What a card can be
Four kinds. The chip tells you which before you read it.
The labels are plain English on purpose: what the card is, not a category name. Reply ready means Orca has done the work. Needs decision means it hasn't and won't without you.
A reply Orca has written
Grounded in the thread, your CRM notes on the sender and how you write. Read it, send it, or say what to change.
An email Orca would not guess at
When it isn't sure how to handle something, it waits here rather than drafting the wrong thing. You can ask for a draft, schedule a reply, or dismiss.
A meeting being booked
Someone proposed a time, or asked for one. Orca has checked every connected calendar and has a view. Approve the slot, ask a qualifying question, or decline.
A follow-up after a meeting
Drafted from the transcript once the call ends, with the action items in it. Same three buttons.
Priority or Timeline, your call
Sort by priority and the stream groups into Needs you now, Today and Soon, so the thing that matters is at the top. Sort by timeline and it is simply newest first. A small News toggle brings headlines in if you want them at the bottom, and leaves them out if you don't.
Ask Orca, without leaving
The right-hand column is a chat with Orca, pinned and collapsible. "What did we agree with them last time" or "move the 14:00 to Thursday" while the card is still in front of you. It is the same Orca with the same tools, just recessed so it reads as a side panel rather than more app.
The left rail
The day, the promises, the tasks. In that order.
The rail is your real calendar timeline for today, across every connected account, then two collapsible sections under it. It scrolls as one column, and there is no navigation in it, so there is exactly one place to go from.
- Diary. Today's meetings, with Create Prep and View Prep on the ones Orca has briefed you for.
- Your commitments. Things you said you'd do, picked up by Orca from your emails and meetings. Tick them off here. They also feed the morning plan in Orca Plan.
- Tasks. Tasks in Orca: ones you've added yourself and ones Orca created from your conversations.
One queue, several doors
Today is the full view. The same cards reach you smaller, too.
The menu bar popover shows the same queue grouped as Replies ready, Need a decision, Meetings to confirm, Follow-ups ready, with the one-tap action on each row. It is a queue viewer, deliberately: anything needing more than a line of input deep-links into the main window instead of growing a second app in a popover.
Telegram, if you have connected your own bot, gets each card as a message with the buttons under it. A yes on your phone is the same yes as a yes on the desktop, and it clears from both.
And the Inbox has the same drafts inside the threads they belong to, under Needs you. Wherever you happen to be looking, it is one list, and clearing it anywhere clears it everywhere.
How it fits with the rest of Orca
Today shows the output. These are where it comes from and where it goes next.
Pricing
Today is the front door. It comes with the house.
£250/licence/month
Every Orca licence includes Today
- Mac and Windows
- Same queue in the menu bar and on Telegram
- Every connected calendar in the rail
One licence, the whole assistant
This page is one part of it. Every part below comes with the same licence.
- Orca Inbox
- Orca Autopilot
- Orca Calendar
- Orca Book
- Orca Meet
- Orca Post
- Orca Brief
- Orca Notes
- Orca People
- Orca Chat
- Orca Plan
- Orca Clip
- Orca Mobile
- Orca Today You are here
- Orca Screen recording storage
Claude API usage, setup support and updates are in the monthly price. The pricing page has the one-off setup fee and the rate for six licences or more.
Also available: Orca Time, £2.79 per seat a month, with Orca Snap included.
Questions: chris@simmance.ai.
Questions people ask
Is this a task manager?
No. Tasks are in the rail, but the stream is not a to-do list. Every card is either finished work waiting for approval, or a question Orca cannot answer for you. If you find yourself writing to-dos into it, that is what Plan is for.
What does Edit actually do?
It asks you for an instruction, one line is enough, and Orca redrafts the reply to it. "Shorter." "Say no but keep the door open." "Add the price." If you would rather type the reply yourself, open it in the Inbox and change it by hand.
What if I approve the wrong thing?
Approved email is held briefly before it actually sends, so there is an undo. A scheduling approval creates the invite from your calendar, which you can then move or cancel as normal.
Does Discard tell the sender anything?
No. Discard throws away Orca's draft and nothing else. The original email is still in your inbox, unread, exactly as it was.
Can I get to the full app from here?
Yes. Today, Briefing and More live in the title bar. Every card also deep-links to its source, the thread, the calendar event, the transcript, if you want the whole context rather than the summary.