Daily Planner
Type or speak what you need to get done. It sorts the list into what to do first, what to schedule, what to hand off and what to drop, then lays it out as a day with a Pomodoro timer to work through it. Nothing leaves your browser.
Your day
Plan with AI
OptionalThe planner works without this. Add your own key and a model writes the day instead, weighing your energy and context.
ProviderStored in this browser only and sent straight to Claude (Anthropic). Get one at console.anthropic.com. You pay them directly.
Pomodoro
0 doneFocus
25:00
25 minutes work, 5 minutes break
Do first
0Urgent and important
Nothing here yet
Schedule
0Important, not urgent
Nothing here yet
Delegate
0Urgent, not important
Nothing here yet
Drop
0Neither
Nothing here yet
Your day
0/0 doneAdd what you need to get done and it will lay out here in order.
RICE scoring
Full versionThe Eisenhower matrix above asks whether something is urgent. RICE asks whether it is worth doing at all, which is a better question when everything on the list is optional. It is the method Intercom built for deciding what to work on next.
Score = (Reach × Impact × Confidence) ÷ Effort
Reach
How many people or events does this affect?
A real count over a set period, e.g. 450 customers per quarter
Impact
How much does it affect each one?
Massive 3, high 2, medium 1, low 0.5, minimal 0.25
Confidence
How sure are you about those numbers?
High 100%, medium 80%, low 50%, below that it is a moonshot
Effort
How much work is it?
Person-months, whole numbers, minimum 0.5
Worked example
| Task | R | I | C | E | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1stAdd export button | 1200 | 0.5 | 80% | 0.5 | 960 |
| Rebuild onboarding | 450 | 3 | 100% | 2 | 675 |
| New pricing page | 800 | 2 | 50% | 3 | 267 |
Read the top row as (1200 × 0.5 × 80%) ÷ 0.5 = 960. The export button barely moves anyone, and you are only 80% sure of the numbers, yet it still beats rebuilding onboarding at (450 × 3 × 100%) ÷ 2 = 675, because effort is a divisor and half a month of work is cheap. That is what the method is for: the ranking regularly disagrees with the one in your head, and the disagreement is the useful part. The pricing page loses on all three counts at once.
Get the Full Daily Planner for $9, one-time
Everything you just used, plus: your own key from Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini so the planning is genuinely AI powered, RICE scoring across your whole list, an archive of every day you have planned, your own Pomodoro lengths, and export to PDF or PNG. One HTML file that runs offline. No subscription. Ever.
Download Full App for $9One-time purchase. Instant download. No subscription.
A free daily planner that gives you a day, not another list
A to-do list tells you what you have not done. It does not tell you what to do next, how long it will take, or whether any of it fits in the hours you have. That is the gap this fills: you put in what has to happen, and it comes back as a day with an order, clock times and durations.
It runs entirely in your browser. Your tasks are saved on your own device and never reach a server, there is no account, and nothing asks for an email before it will show you anything.
How to use it
Write down what has to happen
One thing per line, in whatever words you would use out loud. "Finish the Q4 deck today" is a better input than "deck", because the word today is what tells it the thing is urgent.
Say how much time you actually have
Hours and a start time. Be honest rather than optimistic: the point of the number is to show you when the list does not fit, which is most days.
Set your energy for today
One to five. Demanding work gets longer blocks when energy is high and shorter ones when it is not, because a 90 minute deep-work block on four hours of sleep is a block you will spend on your phone.
Build the day
Everything is sorted into do first, schedule, delegate or drop, then laid out with clock times. Anything past your available hours is highlighted, so you choose what moves to tomorrow instead of finding out at 6pm.
Press Start on the first task
That opens a full screen with just that task and a countdown for its estimate. One thing, no list, nothing else to look at.
Why sorting beats listing
Most days the problem is not that you forgot something. It is that eleven things are all shouting and they are not equally loud. The Eisenhower matrix separates two things people collapse into one: how loudly a task is shouting, and whether it matters.
Do first
Urgent and important. The deadline today, the thing already late. Small box on a good day, whole day on a bad one.
Schedule
Important, not urgent. Strategy, learning, the thing that stops next month being on fire. This is the box that quietly decides how your year goes, and the one everyone raids for time.
Delegate
Urgent to someone, not important to you. Needs an actual person to hand it to, which is why it needs saying out loud rather than assuming.
Drop
Neither. Naming these is the point. A list that never admits anything can be dropped just grows.
RICE, further up this page, answers a different question: not what is urgent, but what is worth doing at all. It is the better tool when everything on the list is optional and you are choosing between projects rather than firefighting.
Free version or full version
The free planner above is the whole planner, not a demo, and that includes AI planning if you bring your own key. The full version is a file you download and own, for people who use it daily and want their history, RICE scoring and their own timer lengths.
| Feature | Free | Full, $9 once |
|---|---|---|
| Plan your day, unlimited tasks | Yes | Yes |
| Eisenhower sorting | Yes | Yes |
| Add tasks by voice | Yes | Yes |
| Pomodoro timer | 25 and 5 | Your own lengths |
| Focus mode countdown | Yes | Yes |
| AI planning with your own key | Yes | Yes |
| RICE scoring on your list | Explained only | Yes |
| Plan any date, keep the archive | Today only | Yes |
| Export to PDF or PNG | No | Yes |
| Works offline, no internet | No | Yes |
Questions
Is this daily planner really free?
Yes. The planner, the Eisenhower sorting, voice input, the Pomodoro timer, focus mode and AI planning with your own key are all free, with no account and no trial. The $9 version is a file you download and own, which adds RICE scoring, an archive of every day, custom timer lengths and PDF or PNG export, and works with no internet at all.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up and no email box. Your tasks are saved in your own browser, so they are there when you come back on the same device, and they never reach our servers.
What is the Eisenhower matrix?
A way of sorting work by two questions: is it urgent, and is it important. Urgent and important means do it first. Important but not urgent means schedule it, and this is the box most people neglect. Urgent but not important is a candidate to hand off. Neither means drop it.
How does it decide which tasks go where?
It reads your wording. Words like today, deadline and overdue mark something urgent. Words like plan, write, design and research mark something important. Asking someone or chasing someone marks delegation. You can move anything with the dropdown if it guesses wrong.
Is there AI in this planner?
Only if you want it. By default it sorts and schedules with a built-in rules engine and no AI at all, which is why the same input always gives the same plan and why it needs no key. If you paste in your own key from Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, a model writes the day instead. That option is free because you pay the provider directly and the key stays in your browser.
What is the Pomodoro timer for?
Working in fixed stretches with short breaks, 25 minutes on and 5 off by default. It is a separate thing from focus mode: the Pomodoro runs the rhythm of your session, and focus mode counts down one specific task.
Does voice input send my recording anywhere?
No. It uses the speech recognition built into your browser, so the transcription happens on your device and we never receive audio. It needs Chrome, Edge or Safari; other browsers will say so when you press the button.
What is RICE and why is it locked?
RICE ranks work by reach times impact times confidence, divided by effort. The whole method is explained on this page with the scales and a worked example, so you can use it today with a calculator. What the full app adds is scoring your own list automatically.
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