Journal
Every closed day adds a line: the date, the best memory and the lesson. It becomes a diary you never had to sit down and write.
New Plan 2027 in 30 minutes
Daily Planner is a calm planner for your day, your week and your year. It’s free and open source, needs no account and works offline. Your plans stay on your device, not on our servers.
On your computer, tablet and phone. Installs like an app, straight from the browser — no app store.
One small loop, every day
Plan in the morning, work from your schedule, close the day in the evening. It takes a few minutes, and nothing unfinished gets lost.
- 1
Plan
Write one thing to keep in mind, choose the most important outcome and up to two others, then give them time on your schedule.
- 2
Do
Work from the schedule. Tick outcomes, tasks and time blocks as they get done.
- 3
Close
Review what got done and decide where every unfinished item goes. Then keep a memory and a lesson from the day.
Close the day without losing unfinished work
For each unfinished item, you choose:
- Move
- to a date you pick. A small “Moved 2×” badge shows what keeps slipping.
- Save
- kept without a date in Unresolved: out of the way, not forgotten.
- Forget
- removed from your active work. The day still remembers it.
Then write what made the day worth remembering and what it taught you; together they become your journal. Give the next planning day a little direction, and on Fridays carry on into a short weekly review.
Watch your year paint itself
Every day you close paints a square of the year: deeper when the main outcome got done, deepest when you also kept your winning habit.
- A forgiving streak. It only counts your planning days, and two jokers a month cover the days life gets in the way.
- Twenty trophies, all visible from day one with their progress. They’re earned by what you do in your life, not by time spent in the app.
Your week, in blocks
Week view puts your planning days side by side with their time blocks. It’s the same schedule as the Day view, so nothing needs copying.
- Pick your planning days: Monday to Friday, or whichever days fit your life.
- Click an empty slot to add a block, click a block to edit it.
- Today keeps its current-time line; past days step back.
- Print a one-page landscape week when you want it on paper.
Everything else in the planner, kept small
Each day you close feeds three quiet tools: a journal of memories and lessons, one short list so nothing unfinished gets lost, and a clear view of where your time went. Nothing to set up.
Unresolved
Work that slipped waits in one short list, as Needs attention or Later. For each item: Plan it on a date, Save it, or Forget it.
Time stats
See where the day went, by category: what you scheduled and what has already happened. Switch to Week for the bigger picture.
Search
Find anything you wrote, on any day: outcomes, tasks, time blocks, notes, memories and lessons.
Floating mode
Keep today’s plan and schedule in a small window on top of your other apps, where the browser supports it (Chrome and Edge on a computer).
Print and export
Print a day or a week on one page, export a day as Markdown, and back up everything to a file whenever you like.
Horizon: the year in view
Days are where work happens; the year is where it adds up. Horizon keeps a few big things on one page you’ll actually open, with the whole year on a single ribbon and a line for today.
- A Misogi. One hard, year-defining challenge, with up to five milestones on the way.
- Six mini-adventures. Small experiences that break the routine, from idea to planned to lived.
- Three commitments. What deserves a place in your year, in three plain sentences.
- One winning habit per quarter. Tick it when you close the day and watch it hold.
- A year map. Key dates and periods, month by month, without filling the year with tasks.
Your year on one page. Print it from Horizon and keep it by your desk, where you’ll see it every day.
The Misogi, the mini-adventures and the one-habit-per-quarter rhythm come from Jesse Itzler.
Yours, on every device
On your computer, your tablet and your phone. No sign-up and no subscription: your plans live in your browser, and you decide where else they go.
- No account. Open it and start; there’s nothing to sign up for.
- Works offline. Once loaded, it opens without a connection.
- Installs as an app on iPhone and iPad, Android phones and tablets, Mac and Windows, straight from the browser. No app store.
- Personal sync, sealed. Connect your own Google Drive or Dropbox and one file there keeps your devices in step, sealed on your device with a passphrase only you know. Nothing is stored on our servers. Without it, each device keeps its own plans.
- Export any time. Back up everything to a file, export a day as Markdown, or print it.
With Personal sync connected, tick something on your phone and it shows up on your laptop and tablet. Without it, each device keeps its own plans.
The yearly ritual
Make 2027 count.
A ritual for every year, built into the planner: plan it in a guided half hour, print it and fill it in by hand, check in as each quarter ends, then look back on one page.
- 1Plan itA guided half hour
- 2Print itOn your desk, filled in by hand all year
- 3Check inTen guided minutes as each quarter ends
- 4Look backYour year in review on one page, then plan the next
Every year
Step 1 · Plan it
Plan your year
A guided session sets up Horizon for the whole year in about 30 minutes, one question at a time:
- Your Misogi, and when it happens
- Milestones on the way
- Six mini-adventures
- Three commitments
- A winning habit for each quarter
- Key dates and periods
It ends with Print your year: the whole plan on one page, for your desk.
Step 2 · Print it
Print it, fill it in by hand
Your year on one landscape page: the Misogi and its milestones, six mini-adventures, three commitments, a habit for each quarter and twelve small months with your key dates.
- What you haven’t planned yet prints as lines and boxes, ready for a pen.
- Keep it on your desk. Tick milestones, circle dates and add what comes up as the year goes.
One landscape page. The guided session ends with it, and Horizon prints it again whenever you like.
Step 3 · Check in
Check in every quarter
Ten guided minutes as each quarter ends: see the days you closed and how your winning habit held, answer two honest questions, and set the habit for the next three months.
- Move what slipped to the next quarter in one tap, or tick what you did.
- Everything is saved in Horizon as you type, so you can stop and come back.
Then print the quarter on one page, with room to write by hand.
Step 4 · Look back
Your year in review
One page for a whole year: days closed, the painted year, your best streak, trophies unlocked, main outcomes done and where your time went. Then how the Misogi, the mini-adventures and the habits turned out, with a few memories and lessons from your journal.
It prints on one page. Keep it with the plan it answers, then plan the next year.
All year long
Insights
See which weekdays work best for you, when your focus really happens, where your hours go month by month, and how this year compares with the last.
- In Stats, beside Day and Week, and from Horizon under Progress.
- A few plain sentences on top, each chart with a table behind it.
Worked out on your device from the days you close. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Colours for your painted year
Six palettes for the year that paints itself. Choose the one you’d like to see every evening.
On all your devices
Your year plan, its check-ins and your reviews are part of your planner: Personal sync and backups carry them to your other devices.
Free and open source
Yours to use, to read and to keep.
Every part of Daily Planner is free, for everyone: no account, no trial and nothing to buy. Its code is open source under the MIT licence, so anyone can see how it works and what it does with their plans.
Start today, or look inside first.
Made by Ben Morin. No ads, and no data to sell: your plans never reach our servers.
- All of it, for everyone Plan your year with the misogi, quarterly check-ins, your year in review, Insights and every palette
- No account Open it and start: no sign-up, no email, no password
- Plans that stay on your device Saved in your browser, never on our servers
- Personal sync, sealed Optional, through your own Google Drive or Dropbox, sealed with your passphrase
- Open source, MIT Read the code, report a problem, or run your own copy
- Works offline Installs like an app, on your computer, tablet and phone
Questions
Something missing? The planner’s own Help page explains every feature and shortcut, or ask a question.
The planner
Do I need an account?
No. Open the planner and start. There’s no sign-up, no email and no password.
Is it really free?
Yes, all of it, for as long as you use it: your days and weeks, Horizon, Plan your year, the quarterly check-ins, your year in review, Insights and every palette. There’s no trial, no account and nothing to buy.
Where is my data stored?
In your browser, on your device. It isn’t sent to our servers. You can back up everything to a file at any time and restore it in another browser.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Once the planner has loaded, it reopens without a connection, which is especially handy when it’s installed as an app.
Is Personal sync safe?
It’s optional, and sealed. Your planner is encrypted on your device with a passphrase only you know before it goes to your cloud, so Google or Dropbox hold a file they can’t read. The planner can only reach its own file there, not your other files, and nothing passes through our servers. Before applying changes from another device, it keeps a few recovery snapshots on your device.
Which clouds can I sync with?
Your own Google Drive or your own Dropbox, whichever you choose in the planner’s settings. Without either, a backup file moves everything from one browser to another.
Can I share my week or my year?
Yes. When you close the last planning day of a week, its summary offers Share your week, and Progress offers Share your year. Either becomes a clean image for a post or a message, made on your device: nothing is uploaded.
Which devices does it work on?
Any recent browser on iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows or Linux. To install it as an app, use Install in Chrome or Edge, or Share → Add to Home Screen on iPhone and iPad.
Open source
Is Daily Planner open source?
Yes. Its code is published under the MIT licence: you can read it, change it and run your own copy. The name “Daily Planner by Ben Morin” and its logo aren’t covered by that licence, so a copy you publish needs a name of its own. The code is on GitHub.
Why is it free?
Because a planner for your own days works best when it asks nothing of you: no account, nothing to buy, and your plans on your device. Daily Planner is an independent project by Ben Morin, with no ads and no data to sell. If it helps you, you can support it on GitHub Sponsors.
Can I run my own copy?
Yes. The planner is plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with nothing to build while you work on it. Its README explains how to run it on your computer and how to put your own copy online with Cloudflare Pages.
How do I report a problem or suggest something?
Send feedback from the planner’s menu, or ask a question on the Contact page. You can also open an issue on GitHub.
Start with today.
Open the planner, write one thing to keep in mind, and choose the outcome that would make today count.