How to use the Day in the life template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Day in the life template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Day in the life”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Base it on real observation or interviews, not imagination. Look for moments where tools, mood and pain all point the same way.”
Fill in each part
- Early morning
- Morning rush
- Midday
- Afternoon
- Closing up
- Doing What the café manager actually does.
- Tools What they use.
- Feeling Their mood at each point.
- Where we help Opportunities for us.
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Day in the life board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Field visit notes
Capture what you see on a site visit: the setting, people, tools and paper, the workarounds and the quotes worth keeping.
Customer journey
Stages across, lanes for doing, thinking, feeling, pain points and opportunities.
Empathy map
What one person says, thinks, does and feels, with their pains and gains below.
User persona
A research-based profile: who they are, goals, frustrations, habits and tools.
Research plan
Plan a study before booking anyone: the decision it informs, the questions, method, participants, timeline and how you’ll share it.
Interview guide
A discussion guide for customer interviews: warm-up, their story, the problem in depth, current workarounds and wrap-up.