Plan your route with Start My Day

Turn today's visits into an ordered driving route with drive times, a map, and one focused stop at a time.

Last updated July 28, 2026


Start My Day (in the sidebar, or from the “stops to go today” banner on your dashboard) gathers today's scheduled visits into a single ordered stop list, so you work the day one focused stop at a time instead of bouncing between the calendar and a maps app.

The Start My Day planner showing today's visits as an ordered stop list with drive times between stops and Optimize route and Show map buttons.
Today's visits become numbered stops, with the estimated drive time between each one.
  1. Open Start My Day. Today's scheduled visits are already listed as stops; use Add stop to pull in another property, or remove a stop you won't get to.
  2. Click Optimize route. If you've saved a starting address in Settings you can optimize from there or from your current location; otherwise the route starts from your first stop.
  3. Click Show map to see the whole route on a street map, then open each stop to run its inspection right inside the plan.
  4. When the last stop is done, the Day Complete debrief rounds up anything left over — reports you haven't sent and issues you flagged today.
Tip · Start My Day is included on every plan. The plan is a view of your day, not a separate record — reordering or removing stops never changes the underlying scheduled visits.

How route optimization orders your stops

Optimization orders stops by real driving distance, starting from your chosen starting point. Drive times between stops come from the road network, so the summary strip's total distance and time reflect what you'll actually drive — and it shows how much the optimized order saves versus your original one.

Tip · Stops need a mappable address to be routed. If a property is missing from the map or ignores optimization, check that its address is complete (or drop a manual pin on the property page).
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