A daily planner designed around how you actually work
today is a daily planner app for knowledge workers. Plan time blocks, track focus, keep commitments, and reflect — in one quiet place.
What makes a daily planner app useful vs. overwhelming
Most daily planner apps fail by offering too much surface: habit trackers, goal trees, priority matrices, inboxes, notes, integrations. The cognitive load of managing the planner starts competing with the cognitive load of doing the actual work. today was built with the opposite constraint: one day, one outcome, a handful of blocks, a few commitments. Every feature that didn't survive this constraint was cut. The result is a planner you can open, update in 3 minutes, and close — leaving the rest of your day clear for work. Daily planning should cost less mental energy than it saves.
The daily model: blocks, sessions, commitments, reflection
today organizes a day around four primitives. Blocks are the skeleton — named time segments that give the day shape. Focus sessions are the muscle — actual logged work within blocks. Commitments are the promises — recurring behaviors you're trying to build or maintain. Reflection is the closure — a brief text field at the end of the day to capture what happened and what to carry forward. These four elements cover planning, execution, habit formation, and learning in a single daily loop. Nothing in the model is novel, but the combination of all four in one lean interface is rare.
Calendar sync in a daily planner
External calendars tell you where time is already committed. Without that data, daily planning is fiction — you're assigning blocks to time that meetings already own. today syncs Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook events into the day view, so your planning happens around reality rather than an empty grid. External events appear in the timeline but can't be edited from today (they live in their source calendar). This keeps the interface clean: today is for your self-directed time, and calendar apps are for meeting schedules. The two layers appear together without either one colonizing the other.
Planning cadence: when to use a daily planner
The most effective use of a daily planner is a 5-minute session at the start of each workday — before opening email, before Slack, before anything reactive. Sketch the day's blocks based on what's on the calendar and what you're committed to finishing. Then spend 2 minutes in the evening reviewing how the day went. That 7-minute daily investment produces more directional clarity than most weekly reviews. today is designed for this cadence: the day view is the opening screen, the reflection is the closing screen, and nothing else competes for attention in between.
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- FeatureTime Blocking App — todaytoday is a calm time blocking app for knowledge workers. Sketch your day in blocks, log focus sessions, and close the loop each evening.
- FeatureFocus Session Tracker — todaytoday's focus session tracker logs what you work on, how long you focus, and whether it connects to your daily outcome. Honest data, no judgment.
- FeatureDaily Commitment Tracker — todaytoday's commitment tracker lets you carry a few recurring promises through your day. Keep them, break them honestly, and watch your follow-through rate over time.
- FeatureDaily Reflection Tool — todaytoday's daily reflection prompt helps you review what you planned vs. what you did, name what mattered, and shut down your workday with intention.