An online daily planner for the things you repeat

A day has two halves. There is the part that is different every time, meetings and errands and whatever landed in your inbox overnight, and there is the part that is the same most days. A calendar handles the first half well. Almost nothing handles the second half, which is why people keep rewriting the same six items into a fresh planner every morning.

Rewriting them is the problem. If an item appears on your plan five days running and gets done twice, that is information, and copying it forward by hand is exactly what destroys it. Here it stays as a row, and the row keeps its record.

Morning planning is done by the most optimistic version of you that exists. It has no memory of last Tuesday. That is why the plan is always slightly too big and why the same three items keep sliding.

Having three weeks of history on the same screen is a correction. When you can see that the evening walk has happened four times in twenty days, planning it again for tonight becomes a decision rather than a reflex. Sometimes the right answer is to plan it anyway. Sometimes it is to admit the walk is never happening at 9pm and move it to lunchtime.

Under five minutes, most days under one. Open the grid, look at the current week, tick what you did yesterday if you forgot, and glance at which rows are thinning out. That is the whole ritual.

There is no daily setup step, no dragging items into today, and no inbox to process. The plan for today is the same set of rows as yesterday, which is the point.

Be clear about this, because a planner that pretends to do everything wastes your time. If your problem is that you double-book yourself, or you need a reminder fifteen minutes before a call, this is the wrong tool and a calendar is the right one. They work well side by side: the calendar owns anything with a clock time, this owns anything with a frequency.

The cost of that split is that you check two things. In practice that has been worth it, because merging them produces a calendar so cluttered with repeating blocks that the real appointments get lost in it.