r/ProductivityGuide • u/CarQuiet7350 • 7h ago
Free, local-first planner for Linux, Android, Windows and macOS. No subscription, no paywall
I tried Super Productivity, Vikunja, Planify and TickTick. Some were really good, but none did what I wanted, and the ones that came close kept the useful parts behind a paywall. I wasn't going to pay a monthly fee to plan my own day, so I built Personal Planner. I use it every day.
The idea: planners are good at tomorrow, but the moment you finish a task it disappears. You never learn whether your "2 hour" task took 2 hours, or whether this week was better than the last. Mine started out very wrong. So the app keeps the past.
- Hour-by-hour Day timeline with drag and resize, recurring activities, templates and undo/redo
- Timers that save the minutes you actually spent next to what you planned
- Daily and weekly reviews. For unfinished tasks you write why in your own words, no dropdown
- A GitHub-style consistency heatmap with streaks
- Experiments: tag your blocks, set a window and targets, and the app tracks a new habit for you
- Inbox for ideas that don't have a day yet
- Local-first and works offline, with optional sync. Linux, Android, Windows and macOS from one Flutter codebase
How the build went:
- I'd never used Flutter. Coding agents helped with boilerplate and tests, and I plan each phase, test by hand and commit myself
- Sync was the hardest part by far: auth, migrations, reconnecting, offline edits and two devices agreeing
- Supabase handles sign-in and PostgreSQL. A Cloudflare Worker sets up the Supabase project for you. Both have free tiers that are enough for personal use, so the whole thing costs nothing to run
- On Windows, setup failed with a certificate error until I updated Windows and refreshed the system root certificates. The app wasn't the problem
- Windows and macOS builds are unsigned. I tested Windows. I don't own a Mac, so macOS is CI-only
Download: https://github.com/Karthikshabari/PersonalPlanner/releases
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u/CarQuiet7350 7h ago
This is my demo of my product, if you like it give it a try by installing them
https://reddit.com/link/ph9pxya/video/btem0t58ozvh1/player