GoodDay handbook · September 2026
Everything an editor does in GoodDay
Every step here shows you the screen and where to click on it. Read it once. After that, come back only when something new happens.
A job, from start to finish
The coloured steps are the ones where the job is on your desk. On the other steps someone else has it. You do not need to hand it over and you do not need to chase it back. The board does that.
Every working day
Monday to Saturday, before you start work. It takes about ten seconds.
Click Attendance in the left sidebar
Click the Daily Standup tab
Fill in the form
Your name *
Spell it exactly the same way every day
What are you working on? *
The stage you will spend most of today on.
Which job? *
Write the job name exactly as it appears on the Production board, so it can be searched.
Blocked by anything?
Optional. Only if something outside your control is holding you up.
Two of these go wrong most often:
- Your name. Spell it the same way every day. A name typed three different ways looks like three different people to a search box.
- The job name. Copy it from the Production board. This is what lets anyone pull up every day spent on a job.
Set the day to one single day
Which day is this for? *
Set start and end to the same day. One log covers one day.
If you set a range, one entry covers a whole week and the week's numbers come out wrong.
Answer how heavy today is, honestly
How heavy is today? *
Honest answer, not a brave one. Standby means you have nothing to do. Say so, it is not a confession. This is the number Julius uses to decide who gets the next job.
Nobody is in trouble for it. Julius reads this to decide who gets the next job. If you say you are busy when you are not, the work goes to someone who is already full.
Click Submit
That is the whole morning routine.
When you are off
Sick, taking a day, or on leave. Use a different form, and only that one.
Click the Time Off Request tab instead
If you are not working today, fill in Time Off Request only. Do not also fill in the standup.
Say which kind of day it is
- A day off needs two days' notice. Not tomorrow morning.
- Sick can be today. File it the same morning. If you have a doctor's note, attach it to the request.
Wait. The answer comes to you
✅ Your request was answered
Julius has answered your time off request for 13 September.
Open it to see what was decided: Time off, 13 Sep
The status on your request changes to show the answer:
| You asked for | Status becomes |
|---|---|
| A sick day | SICK |
| A day off | DAY OFF |
| A day off Julius marks as paid | PAID LEAVE |
| Anything he turns down | DECLINED |
Only Julius can mark a day as paid leave, and payroll reads that. If you think a day should be paid leave, write it in the request. Do not assume.
A new job
You will be told. You never have to go looking for work on the board.
Open the message and click the job name
🎬 New job for you
EP 99 CUTDOWN has been opened and you are on it.
Read the Brief first. The date you are working to is in Deadline at the top of the job.
Move the status to EDITING when you start.
Read the Brief
Brief
The Brief is written once, when the job is opened, and it never changes. Not even after five rounds of revisions. That way you can always check what was actually promised.
Look at Deadline. That is your date
| Box | What it means | Does it move? |
|---|---|---|
| Deadline | When this round is due back. The only date you work to. | Yes, every round |
| Start / End | When you picked it up, and the date the client was promised the finished film. | No |
| Estimate | How big the job was judged to be. Shown in hours. One day is 8 hours. | Rarely |
Working to the End date. The End date is weeks away. It is when the client gets the finished film, after every round of notes. Deadline is when this cut is due with your SPV, and it is usually much sooner.
While you cut
Click the status at the top of the job
Choose EDITING
Do this when you start, not when you are halfway. It is how anyone can see what is being worked on right now.
If the deadline is tomorrow, you get this message
⏰ Due tomorrow
⏰ EP 99 CUTDOWN is due tomorrow.
That is the date sitting in the Deadline box on the job. If it is going to slip, say so today. Tell your SPV now, not tomorrow morning.
If a new date has already been agreed and nobody moved it, ask them to update Deadline so the board is telling the truth.
If you will not make it, tell your SPV the same day you get this message. A day's warning gives them time to move things around. Telling them on the morning it is due does not.
Sending it in
One status change. Nothing else.
Click the status and choose INTERNAL REVIEW
That is the whole handover. Your SPV gets a message and the job moves into their list. You do not need to tell them in chat or tag anyone.
Leave these two boxes alone
If you set one of them yourself, the job jumps forward and skips the check it was supposed to get. You never need either box.
After that, stop thinking about it. If it needs more work it comes back to you on its own, with a ticket that says what to change.
When it comes back
This part works differently from ClickUp. Read it properly once.
You get a message. The job is already back on you
🔁 Changes wanted
EP 99 CUTDOWN has come back for changes.
What to change is in the new ticket under the job. The date for this round is in Deadline.
The status will be one of two things:
- INTERNAL REVISION: your SPV or Julius wants changes. Nobody outside the studio has seen it.
- CLIENT REVISION: the client has seen it and wants changes.
Scroll down to Subtasks and open the newest ticket
Read the ticket. It says what to change
What the client asked for
Cut the intro by 3 seconds. Music too loud under the VO from 0:08. Use the wider shot at 0:14 instead.
Everything they sent
📎 client-notes-r2.pdf · frame.io link
The deadline for this round is on the job, in the box called Deadline. Close this ticket when the round is finished.
Go back to the job and check Deadline
Look at Deadline on the job, not on the revision ticket. One box, one date, every round. That way you never have to work out which of several dates is the live one.
Do the work, then set the ticket to ROUND DONE
Open the revision ticket, click its status, and choose ROUND DONE. That status exists only for revision tickets. Never put it on a job.
The job moves itself to INTERNAL REVIEW
If there is still another ticket open on the job, nothing moves yet. Finish that one too.
Every round goes back through INTERNAL REVIEW, including client rounds. Your SPV sees it before the client does, every time.
In ClickUp the brief got overwritten each time new client notes arrived, and after four rounds nobody could see what was first asked for. Here the Brief stays as written and every round lives on its own ticket. If you think the Brief is wrong, tell your SPV. Do not fix it yourself.
Boxes you never touch
Four of them. Everything else on a job is fine to use.
Things that happen without you
| When | What happens by itself |
|---|---|
| A job is opened with you on it | You get a message with a link to it |
| You set INTERNAL REVIEW | The job moves to your SPV and they are told |
| Someone asks for changes | The job comes back to you, a numbered ticket is made and given to you, and you are told |
| 7am the day before a deadline | You get the due tomorrow message |
| The job is approved | It clears out of everyone's list |
Action required on a job tells you whose turn it is. If it says you, the job is waiting on you. If it says someone else, it is not.
Quick list
- Standup every working morning. Same spelling of your name. Honest workload.
- Not working? Time Off Request instead. Never both.
- Deadline is your date. Not Start/End.
- EDITING when you start. INTERNAL REVIEW when it is ready. Those are your only two status changes.
- Revisions arrive as a numbered ticket. Read it, do it, set the ticket to ROUND DONE. The job sends itself back.