A local-first daily planner where folders hold the work, any step can be pulled into today, and each day leaves a hand-drawn mark of what got done.
🗓 Personal project · in daily use on my iPhone and Mac since September 2026
🧠 Problem
Most planners are built for one of two people.
- Strict planners get time-blocked calendars and rigid schedules.
- Spontaneous people get a plain to-do list that turns into an endless backlog.
I'm neither. I like having a plan, but I rearrange it all day. My tasks lived in three places: a to-do app for today, notes for ongoing projects, and a calendar for fixed events. None of them showed whether a day had actually gone well.
Two things kept going wrong:
- Projects with several steps didn't fit into a daily list, so they stayed in notes and got forgotten.
- Every to-do app I tried counted what I hadn't done: red badges, overdue counts, broken streaks. On a busy week, opening the app felt like being graded.
💡 Insight
The planner I wanted had to do three things:
- Hold work somewhere that isn't today. Folders for multi-day work, whether or not it has a deadline.
- Make moving things free. Pull a step into today, push it to tomorrow, or send it back to its folder without anything breaking.
- Remember what got done, not what was missed. A visible record of each day that grows as you check things off.
Plan loosely, move freely, and keep a calm record of what you actually did.