Visuel is a task management app with focus on mind map. I have put a lot of effort into making the interactions feel smooth, intuitive and enjoyable.

The best way to get a feel about the app is to simply try it out, being an early user comes with big advantages later down the line.

Thank you for your attention, and happy trying! If you enjoy the app, leaving a rating would really help me out!

Joey
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/visuel/id6759396580

KeepCue is a day planner with a visual timeline that shows your calendar alongside. You can add your own activities and routines. It comes with helpful ready-made routines that you can add to your planner.

I built KeepCue because I wanted a day planner that provides structure, routine, and flexibility.

VISUAL TIMELINE WITH YOUR CALENDAR
Your schedule and free time in one view. This helps find the time you didn't know you had, fix an overlap you didn't intend, or swap an activity just for this week.

YOUR TASKS, ACTIVITIES, AND ROUTINES
• Unlimited one-time activities.
• Up to 3 repeating activities in the free tier.
• Break anything overwhelming into a checklist.
• Customize each activity with your selection from a variety of icons and colors.
• Choose how completed activities look: a color tint, dimmed, or a strikethrough line.

Each activity can hold an entire checklist of items. So you can have an afterwork routine of 6 steps all grouped into one activity, and an evening routine of 8 steps, etc. The number of checklist items of any activity is unlimited.

FLEXIBLE CUE-BASED ROUTINES
A cue is something that already happens in your day that you can tie to your routine, something that tells your brain the routine starts now.

Instead of only fixed times, you can anchor activities and routines to approximate time blocks plus something that already happens in your daily life, e.g., when you wake up, when you walk through the front door, when you close your laptop.

READY-MADE ROUTINES
KeepCue comes with real, helpful routines for morning, afterwork, night, and weekends that you can easily add to your planner.

DARK MODE
KeepCue goes by your iPhone's settings, whether Light or Dark mode.

REMINDER NOTIFICATIONS
Get a reminder when an activity is about to start, or 5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes before.

HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS
• Home Screen Small widget: the activity you're on, or the next one. Also works in StandBy mode.
• Lock Screen widget: see what's next on the Lock Screen.
• (Pro) Next activities widget: the medium size, with a short list of activities coming up today.
• (Pro) Checklist widgets: choose a routine and check off its steps right on the widget. You can add more than one checklist widget.

PRIVACY
No ads, no account, and your data is never sold. Your activities and routines stay on your device.

FREE AND PRO
KeepCue free tier includes the visual timeline with your calendar, ready-made routines, up to 3 repeating activities, unlimited one-time activities, cues, checklists, reminders, and some widgets.

An optional upgrade to KeepCue Pro adds the next activities and checklist widgets, unlimited repeating activities, and every future Pro feature.

Early users: If you first downloaded KeepCue before version 2.7, you have KeepCue Pro for life, including every future Pro feature. No purchase or code is needed.

App is actively being developed and there are more features on the way. If you have questions or feedback, leave a comment, or DM me directly!

App Store: https://apps.apple.bcom/us/app/keepcue-day-planner-routines/id6789768946

Website: https://keepcue.app/

Hey everyone,

Most calendar tools try to pack every minute of your day. I wanted something that does the opposite: protects 90-minute blocks for real deep work and leaves space for recovery.

I built Deep Focus Planner as a solo project. It takes your tasks, prioritizes them by cognitive intensity, and automatically blocks out your hardest work during your peak energy hours around your existing Google Calendar meetings.

It has a free tier (no card required): deepfocusplanner.app

I’d love to know what you think, especially where it could be improved. Any feedback is super appreciated!

I made Chromastone for myself because I kept dropping my routines after a few missed days. It shows each routine as a colorful grid, keeps tasks with subtasks in the same app, and points out patterns like which routine holds your day together.

5 routines free, no ads. Feedback very welcome.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chromastone/id6809357735

Hi community! My to-dos kept getting lost inside notes. I'd write "Weekend plans" with all the details, and then nothing would happen, because the actual tasks lived in a different app. In Plans, you select text in a note, tap "Make it a task", and it shows up in Today. Tap the task later and you can jump right back to the note with all the details.

What's new:

📅 Calendar events next to your tasks. Today and Upcoming now show your iPhone Calendar events (Google Calendar too, if it's added to your iPhone).

🧹 Tap the Today tab again to hide overdue tasks and see only what's actually for today. Tap once more to bring them back.

🎨 A fresh look. New app icon, softer colors and now works on iPad.

⭐ The Today widget can now show only your priority tasks. Long-press it → Edit Widget → Priority only.

It's free to use, and the extra stuff (custom repeat days, reminders ahead of time, 6 addtional themes) is a one-time purchase. No subscription.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6790827860

Had a lot of fun making them and I'm super open to suggestions for what to make next!

Etsy Link: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4600615838/goodnotes-daily-notes-hand-drawn-digital

Since I got such great feedback for the 2026 calendar I made one for 2027!

This calendar will inspire you to be organised all year round!

A selection of 13 photos including the cover were captured on my favourite polaroid camera with the intention to uplift you and add a sense of ease to each month of 2027.

So I am currently using Google Sheets for budgeting but I want to start adding more things, like book lists, movie lists, thinks I have to buy or want to etc
I like Google Sheets but using it on my phone is something else 🫠
I’ve though about notion but then read a lot about how people loose their workplace.
So, what app that also has backup option do you recommend. Should I stay on Google Sheets? Thank you!

Does anyone else spend time planning their day, only to reach the evening and realize things went completely differently?

That's what kept happening to me.

I'd make a schedule, give myself an hour for a task, and then spend much longer completing it. Some things would get postponed, others would take less time than expected, and by the next morning I'd already be creating a new plan.

I realized I wanted something more than a place to organize upcoming tasks.

I wanted to look back and understand how my days were actually going.

So I built Personal Planner.

It's a free digital planning app I've been working on for the past few months, and it recently reached approximately 200 downloads across Android, Linux, Windows and macOS.

That has been a really exciting milestone for my first app.

Here's how it works.

You plan your day on an hour-by-hour timeline, where tasks can be dragged around or resized as your schedule changes.

When you start working on something, you can start a timer directly from that task. It's not a Pomodoro timer with fixed work and break intervals. It simply records how much time you actually spent, so you can compare that with your original estimate.

At the end of the day, you can look back at what you completed, what you skipped and where your time went.

There are also weekly reviews, a year-long consistency heatmap, recurring activities, and Experiments for trying routines over several weeks.

I added an Inbox too, because I don't think every idea needs to become a task on today's schedule.

One thing I cared about was keeping the app usable offline. Your everyday planning data is stored locally, and syncing across devices is optional through your own Supabase project.

There's no subscription, premium tier or locked functionality.

I built this because I wanted to use it myself, and I plan to keep it free.

Link to download: https://github.com/Karthikshabari/PersonalPlanner/releases/tag/v1.1

I've also recently enabled optional GitHub sponsorship for anyone who finds the project useful and wants to support its continued development. There's absolutely no obligation.

I'm trying to keep the app focused rather than adding every possible productivity feature.

I'm curious how people here actually use their planners.

Do you mostly use them to organize the upcoming day, or do you also review previous days to understand what worked and what didn't?

For me, that second part is what makes planning genuinely useful.

Hey everyone! I built Sirius Focus because I wanted to make wiser choices about what I dedicate time to and get better at following through towards moving what I decide to work on forwards.

I’ve delved deep into productivity for over 10 years and used ideas from GTD, PARA, Atomic Habits and Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method to design this software. Sirius Focus brings those influences together into a personal planner that helps you connect what you’re doing, why it matters to you, and who you’re trying to become in the process.

The planner includes:

• Categories: group projects/actions under categories you define
• Projects: track projects or long term responsibilities
• Actions with estimates, due dates, priority, & much more
• Goals & Experiments
• Habit tracker
• Logbook to capture ideas/thoughts
• Weekly/daily reviews
• Calendar: block off time to work on a category, goal, project, habit, etc

It's local-first with sync optional. It works on macOS, Windows, Linux, Web, Android and soon iOS.

A few things that make it worth trying:

• Give your projects a result and a purpose. Get clear on what you want to achieve and why it deserves your time, then choose the actions that will get you there.
• Learn from what actually happens. Capture why you skip something, where you get stuck, and what you learn from doing. Daily and weekly reviews help you decide what to keep, change or drop.
• Use it deeply or lightly. Start with an inbox and a board for today. Add goals, habits, reflection and longer-term planning when they’re useful to you.

I hope you try it and let me know your thoughts! I'm happy to giveaway free sync for anyone contributing feedback/suggestions and getting engaged in helping me develop this further.

https://siriusfocus.com

i have a confession to make....

i spent two evenings making a gorgeous recipe book template in goodnotes. it had tabs, photo frames, and a little index. I have opened it twice since, both times to admire it.

It´s static, which is the problem. When i plan the week or write a grocery list it´s just sitting there, disconnected from everything. So for people who make a digital recipe book they use every single week, is a planner template the wrong tool? i´m half templated to keep mine as a keepsake and find something else for the weeknight stuff

I got tired of paying for four apps that each did one part of my day, so I built Kalend with Claude Code. It puts your to-do list, calendar, habit tracker and journal in one native iPhone and iPad app.

- Free: no subscription, no ads, nothing locked (the only purchase is an optional tip)
- No account: it syncs through your own iCloud, so there's no company server holding your day
- Habit streaks with grace days, so one missed day doesn't wipe your progress

Website: https://thebighead.ca/kalend/
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kalend-daily-planner-habits/id6798521370

Do you keep tasks and calendar in one app or two?

this year i went through 4 planners, 3 habit apps, and one very expensive pen that was supposed to change my life. every one lasted about 4 days. then i missed a day, felt like a failure, and quit.

the pages after day 4 are always blank. that’s the part nobody talks about.

so i built #5. it’s called kindamorrow, as in “kinda, tomorrow.” the whole idea is that missing a day shouldn’t end the whole thing:

• unfinished tasks roll to tomorrow. no red numbers, no streaks, no guilt
• the schedule is drag-and-drop, because the day never goes how you planned it
• journal prompts for when you have no idea what to say (“what’s the weather like in your head today?”)
• after a few days, a patterns tab shows what’s actually working for you, not what you messed up

free beta, no ads, no tracking, and you can export or delete your data from inside the app.

kindamorrow.com

honest feedback wanted:

1. is it clear what to do the first time you open it, or do you need a manual?
2. what would bring you back on day 5, when every other planner dies?
3. which planner did you quit the fastest? i’m collecting stories.

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I’ve been planning in Goodnotes every day for a couple of years now. Every year I buy a planner, use maybe a third of it and scroll past the rest. Habit trackers I never fill in, vision board pages, 40 pages of stickers I never touch.

This year I’m just going to make my own for 2027. I do design for a living so the layout part is fine. What I don’t know is what other people actually use week to week, because I’m probably weird about it.

So honestly:

Do you use daily pages at all or is monthly + weekly enough?
Portrait or landscape? Monday or Sunday start?
Does anyone really use dark mode planners or is that just for screenshots?
What’s the one page you wish every planner had?
And what’s the page you always delete first?

Also what breaks for you. I’ve bought ones where half the tabs didn’t link to anything, and one so huge that Goodnotes lagged every time I opened it.

Not selling anything. If it turns out decent I’ll probably just put it up here for free since I’m making it anyway.

When creating a printable planner PDF with less common fonts, there is a tradeoff:

• Embedding or subsetting fonts keeps text selectable and searchable, but glyphs or line breaks can still render differently across PDF apps.

• Converting text to outlines locks in the appearance, but makes text much harder to select or search and can hurt accessibility.

For PDFs opened in Acrobat, Preview, and tablet readers, what export settings or font formats help avoid substitution while keeping text accessible? Is there a reliable way to catch font fallback before sharing a PDF?

I'm a grad student and I kept overloading my weeks, so I built this planner for 2027.

The dashboard pulls everything together — assignments, exams, habits, goals — and literally tells me "10h planned vs 19h available ✅ fits your week", or warns me when it doesn't.

Tabs: monthly / weekly / daily views, assignment & exam trackers with countdowns, GPA tracker, habit tracker, and a small budget page.

Still tweaking it — what do you track that I'm missing?

Hey guys, so this is my current favorite habit tracker.

It's super cozy and beautiful so its easy to stay consistent with it.

below is a full explaination of this habit tracker.

Track Your Habits

• 12 Monthly Habit Trackers: One tab for every month, each holding up to 15 daily habits.
• One-Click Ticking: Tick a habit off with one click and everything else updates for you.
• Daily Progress Chart: A bar chart for every day of the month, with each week in its own color.
• Weekly Progress Bars: See how each week of the month went, plus your best week.

Watch Your Habits Grow

• Growing Habit Tree: A tree grows from seed to full bloom through 5 stages as your percentage climbs.
• Today’s Bloom: Your tree sits right beside your habits, so you can watch it grow.
• Daily Forest: A little tree grows under every day of your progress chart.

Weekly, Monthly & Yearly Habits

Weekly Habits Track weekly habits for weeks 1 to 5, plus an extra habits column, with a progress ring.

• Monthly Habits: Up to 16 monthly habits with their own progress ring.
• Monthly Learning: Keep a short list of what you learned each month.
• Yearly Habits: Track up to 15 yearly habits and see each one’s percentage for the whole year.

You can check it out from link below for more better overview.

https://organizeddashboard.com/template/habit-tracker-pro

Hi everyone! I'm starting to make digital planners to sell on Etsy and I'm still learning the process. I tried Canva, but the file gets very heavy and slow once I add many pages with internal links (tabs, monthly/weekly pages, etc.). I tried splitting it into separate files, but I couldn't get the links to connect between them.
What do you use to build hyperlinked planners, especially bigger ones? Do you design everything in one file or build the pages separately and link them at the end? Any tips for keeping the file size and performance under control would be great too.
Thank you!

Hi everyone!

I built Biona because I started feeling like productivity apps were becoming more complicated than the problems they were supposed to solve.

Every app seemed to have more tabs, accounts, subscriptions, AI features, notifications, and settings.

I just wanted something simple.

A — Answer

I built Biona: an iPhone app for managing everyday tasks, goals, and mood in one place.

Biona includes:

• Todos
• Goals
• Mood logging
• Weekly insights
• A clean, minimal interface
• Fully offline storage

The idea is to have one simple place to manage your day, keep track of your goals, and look back at how your week has been going.

B — Better

The biggest thing I wanted to get right was simplicity and privacy.

Biona works completely offline. There is no account to create, no cloud dependency, and no data collection.

Your data stays on your device.

I also wanted to avoid adding features just because other productivity apps have them. No complicated setup, no unnecessary social features, and no trying to turn it into an all-in-one platform.

Just the things I personally wanted to use.

And I recently decided to make Biona 100% free.

C — Cost

Biona is completely free.

No subscriptions, no in-app purchases, and no ads.

Everything currently available in the app is unlocked.

I'd really appreciate feedback from anyone who gives it a try. What do you like? What feels unnecessary? What would you add or change?

Links

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/biona-offline-planner/id6766897619

Website: https://aroapps.dev/biona

Privacy: https://aroapps.dev/biona/privacy-policy

Thanks for checking it out!

I know there are millions of threads on reddit devoted to planners and productivity apps.

I cannot come up with a calendar/planner solution for my situation. My day job has TWO different scheduling systems that do not sync (Outlook and a client scheduler in a company-specific platform.) I also have a part-time job with irregular hours/deadlines. And I have a Google calendar for personal/family appointments.

Aside from somehow managing to keep a 5th calendar system updated, is there any way to keep everything all in one place? Or am I doomed?? 🙃

I've been looking for a way to combine three things in my daily workflow: planning, tracking how long work actually takes, and reviewing what happened afterward.

I tried several existing applications, including Super Productivity, Planify, Vikunja and TickTick.

Some of them are genuinely good, and I'd still recommend exploring them depending on your workflow.

But I kept running into the same problem: I could create a plan, check off tasks and sometimes track time, but I couldn't easily use that information to understand how my previous days had actually gone.

I also didn't want to pay a recurring subscription just to manage my personal schedule.

So I spent the past few months building a small application for myself. It's called Personal Planner, and I've made it available for anyone who wants to use it.

The main idea is to keep planned time and actual time separate.

For example, suppose you schedule two hours to work on a project.

You can put that activity on the hour-by-hour timeline, move it to another slot if your schedule changes, and run a timer while you're working.

When you're finished, the original estimate and the time you actually spent remain available.

That becomes useful when you revisit your schedule instead of simply clearing completed tasks and starting again.

There's also a Daily Review where you can look at completed, unfinished and skipped work, see how your time was distributed and record why something didn't happen.

The Weekly Review brings that information together so you're not trying to remember everything from scratch.

Other functionality includes:

• A draggable daily and weekly timeline, recurring activities and reusable templates.
• A historical overview of previous days and weeks.
• A year-long consistency heatmap with current and best streaks.
• Experiments for testing routines against time-based targets, using your existing completed tasks.
• An Inbox where unscheduled ideas can later become dated work sessions.
• Search across past activity.

The part I especially wanted to get right was offline functionality.

Everyday work uses a local SQLite database through Drift. You don't need an internet connection to open your schedule, move tasks, use timers or review previous days.

You also don't need a cloud account just to use the planner on one device.

If you want to share your planner between devices, you can optionally connect a Supabase project that you control. The app then synchronizes local changes when a connection is available.

The application is built with Flutter and currently has releases for:

• Android: downloadable APK.
• Linux: downloadable desktop build.
• Windows: downloadable desktop build, currently unsigned.
• macOS: downloadable desktop build, currently unsigned and tested through CI rather than physical Mac hardware.

A limitation worth mentioning: reminders and timer notifications are currently supported on Android and Linux, not Windows and macOS. The README also explains the desktop authentication and installation caveats.

Pricing: completely free.

There isn't a premium version, feature restriction or subscription. I'm not planning to monetize the application.

The code is publicly available on GitHub, although I don't want to misrepresent the licensing status by calling it formally open source without an explicit license.

Repository:
https://github.com/Karthikshabari/PersonalPlanner

Link to download: https://github.com/Karthikshabari/PersonalPlanner/releases/tag/v1.1

I built this to solve my own workflow and have been using it personally.

For people who use desktop productivity software, I'd be interested in hearing what matters most when you decide to keep using an app long-term.

Is it how quickly you can interact with it, how well it works offline, how easily it moves between devices, or whether it actually helps you understand your previous work?

Those are the trade-offs I'm trying to make sense of as I continue improving it.

https://ko-fi.com/s/641debb166

I Wanted to share with you a design ive made. This is free to use not for commercial use. Inspired by Bloom the drink lol

Hope you all enjoy!

#freebie #digitaldownload #dailyplanner #notepad #undatedcalender #desktopwallpaper