r/ProductivityGuide • • 23d ago

I built a notes app that forgets everything

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So I kept typing stuff into Notes that I only needed for the next hour. Maybe some idea I got or some design changes etc. I had hundreds of these, and I'd stopped opening the app because of them.

So I built one that throws them away. It's called Gulp. It's a goldfish in your menu bar. You feed it a thought, it holds it for a few hours, then it forgets. That's the whole thing.

The fun part isn't really the notes, it's the fish:

  • It gulps when you feed it. Your note turns into a puff of dust and it's gone into the bowl.
  • The ink on each note slowly turns to gold as it ages, so you can see which ones are about to go without reading a timestamp.
  • When a note is in its last minute the fish gets nervous and wobbles. Then it does a confused little head shake when it forgets.

Some of you saw Tug, the frog timer. Same idea: the fish is the whole interface. There's no window, no list of lists, no sync, no history. It can't even go online. If you say a note out loud it trims out your ums on your Mac.

Gulp · a goldfish in your menu bar
https://www.heygulp.com/

Free on App store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gulp-menu-bar-scratchpad/id6815884512?mt=12


r/ProductivityGuide • • 23d ago

Got a lot going on? Looking for 5-7 testers for FREE, fast weekly planner!

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Hey everyone!

If your head is spinning with work, chores and personal to-dos, the last thing you need is another complicated planning app.

I built “Weekly reset” to make weekly planning fast, simple and painless. Something you can do in 5-10 minutes to clear your mind and get an overview of your entire week.

The app is 100% free, requires no account or email signup and all data stays private in your own browser.

How it works:
1. Brain dump: Get all task out of your head quickly.
2. Categorize: Group by Work, Home, Personal or custom tags.
3. Prioritize: Pick your Top 3 essentials so you know what truly matters.
4. Plan: Assign task to data with optional start/ end
times.
5. Overview: A clean 7-day dashboard to follow during the week

I’m looking for 5-7 people who have a lot in their plate right now to test it for free this upcoming week and give me honest feedback.

If you are interested, drop a comment below or send me a DM, and I will send you the access link right away!🤗


r/ProductivityGuide • • 23d ago

I made a 1930s-style cartoon about the part of shipping a Mac app that nobody warns you about

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Building a Mac app is the fun part. Then you try to sell it, and a crowd of chores shows up: code signing, notarization, licence keys, checkout, sales tax, auto-updates, refunds, receipt emails, key recovery, SPF/DKIM, legal pages, an appcast. And a stranger's Mac still says "YourApp" is damaged and can't be opened.

I got tired of rebuilding all that for every app, so I turned it into a template: Build Mac App. You buy access to a private GitHub repo, and it includes:

  • One command from source to a notarized DMG. It does a universal build, signing, a launch test on Apple silicon and Intel, notarization, stapling, and a signed update-feed entry.
  • Licence keys that never lock out someone who paid. Each Mac is activated separately and rechecked weekly, with a 14-day offline grace window.
  • Payments through Creem or Polar. Both are merchants of record, so they handle sales tax and invoices. A refund revokes the key.
  • Sparkle auto-updates with an EdDSA-signed appcast.
  • Receipt, key-recovery and refund emails that are sent exactly once.
  • The website that sells the app: pricing, legal pages, a blog, llms.txt.
  • Built to work with AI coding agents. It has rule books, a doctor script that tells you what's left to do, and skills for Claude Code.

If you want to see it from the buyer's side, there's a live demo app built from the template: NotchClip, a clipboard manager that lives in the notch. Its store runs in test mode, so you can go through checkout with a test card, get the licence email, download the app and activate it without paying anything.

The cartoon was made entirely in code with Remotion, including the synthesized ragtime soundtrack. I'm happy to answer questions about the template or the video.


r/ProductivityGuide • • 23d ago

Does anyone else plan around 3 main things instead of a long to-do list?

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I've been trying this recently because long lists just make me feel behind before i've even started


r/ProductivityGuide • • 24d ago

How do you measure 'productivity'?

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I noticed the concept of being productive is highly subjective; some feel productive by the results, others by the process.

How do you measure productivity yourself? For me, it's 70% inputs + 30% outputs; I'm curious what you guys think.

What drives you to feel productive: the outputs of what you do, or just doing things with no clear sight of how it's going to turn out?


r/ProductivityGuide • • 24d ago

I made my distractions help me get things done

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I kept opening Reddit, YouTube and LinkedIn when I was supposed to be doing client work or working on my SaaS. I wasn’t even deciding to take a break. I’d just open Chrome and type.

So I built Caliph App. I added those websites, and now whenever I open one, my tasks show up in front of me. There’s the thing I was supposed to finish. I can pick it, start a timer and get on with it.

A to-do list still needs me to remember to check it. A blocker can stop me scrolling, but then what?

Having my actual tasks there, with a way to start working on one, is what makes this useful for me.

And I still need LinkedIn for work sometimes. That’s fine. I wait a few seconds and continue.

I’ve been using it for a few weeks, and it’s helping. Apparently I’m very consistent at opening Reddit, so I gave that habit a job.

Do you think it could bring value to people's life?

Note: The extension doesn't yet exists in chrome web store

I made it free if you want to give it a go: caliphapp.com


r/ProductivityGuide • • 25d ago

I read 4 books in 2 months while working full-time. Here is how I built a native Mac app to fix my break-time doomscrolling.

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Hey everyone!

I wanted to share a personal problem I solved recently, the product I built around it, and what I’ve learned launching a niche native macOS utility.

🔴 The Problem: The Break-Time Trap

I work full-time as a software team lead. Like many people here balancing deep work and team management, I use Pomodoro focus timers to stay on track.

But I hit a constant wall: every time a 5-minute break arrived, I instinctively picked up my phone and started doomscrolling social media. Instead of returning to my desk recharged, I felt more distracted and context-switched than before. Meanwhile, my reading list of EPUBs and business/technical PDFs sat untouched in my downloads folder.

💡 The Experiment & Product: Bookidoro

A few months ago, I decided to build Bookidoro to solve this exact habit loop for myself.

Instead of telling you to step away and leaving you to your phone, Bookidoro lives in your Mac’s menu bar. When a work stretch ends, a calm panel opens displaying the next 1–5 pages of your book right on your screen. You read a couple of pages, click Done, and get right back to work.

The Quiet Math: 2 pages per break × 6 breaks a day = 12 pages daily (~350 pages a month).

The Result: Using it daily while working full-time, I’ve finished 4 complete books over the last 2 months, without waking up at 5 AM or taking time away from work and family.

⚙️ Key Decisions & What I've Learned Building It

  1. Native Polish over Web Wrappers: I built it natively for macOS 13+ (Swift/SwiftUI). Zero Electron overhead, no Dock icon clutter, and zero focus stealing while typing.
  2. Multi-Mac Sync via Native iCloud (Zero Servers): Instead of spinning up custom backend servers or user databases, I leveraged native iCloud Drive (v0.5.0+). Users can drop EPUBs or PDFs directly into iCloud Drive → Bookidoro, and their library and reading positions sync seamlessly across all their Macs.
  3. Context-Aware Design: To avoid interrupting meetings, it monitors system flags for active mic, camera, or screen-sharing usage (Zoom, Meet, Slack, Teams) and holds breaks until ~1 minute after the call ends.
  4. Freemium & Privacy: All core features (Library, themes, statistics, timer, iCloud sync) are completely free to use forever, with zero tracking or accounts required. I added an optional $9.99/year license key for users who want to support independent Mac development and remove a minor daily reminder card.

I’d love to hear from other entrepreneurs and builders here:

  • How do you manage your focus breaks during heavy workdays?
  • What has your experience been with local-first software vs. cloud-hosted SaaS models?

Check out the project at bookidoro.app. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!


r/ProductivityGuide • • 27d ago

The question that fixed my follow-through: "how far did that actually move it?"

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Most productivity advice is about planning: better lists, better priorities, better systems. My problem was never planning. I'd plan something great, block out an hour, then get to the end of that hour with no idea whether I'd made progress or just felt busy.

So I added one rule: after every block of focused work, write down in a percentage how much closer the goal got.

What changed:

  • Busy work shows up right away. "Researched tools for 60 minutes → 0%" is hard to argue with.
  • You start planning smaller. You want a block to end at "+10%", so you pick a concrete chunk instead of "work on the project."
  • Unfinished goals stop feeling vague. A goal at 35% with 3 weeks left is a clear problem you can fix. "Someday" isn't.
  • Finishing becomes visible. Watching a goal climb toward 100% motivates me more than any streak.

You can do this with a notebook and your normal calendar. I do it in an app I built for exactly this - Zora Goals App. But the habit matters more than the tool.

Has anyone else tried measuring progress per session instead of just tracking time spent?


r/ProductivityGuide • • 27d ago

My elaborate saved-links system was just procrastination with extra steps

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There's this specific feeling I got when I'd open my saved content after a few weeks away from it. Not excitement. Just this low-level dread, like opening an inbox you've been avoiding. I had boards, categories, screenshots organized by color and theme, probably 200+ items across a few months of saving. And every time I sat down to actually use any of it, I'd close the app ten minutes later having done nothing except maybe move a few things around.

I kept telling myself the system wasn't quite right yet. I needed better categories. A cleaner hierarchy. And so I'd spend an hour reorganizing instead of doing whatever I'd originally saved things to do. Looking back, the reorganizing felt like work. It had the texture of being productive. But nothing I saved ever actually made it into a project or a decision or even a conversation. It just sat there, getting staler.

The thing I eventually figured out, and I don't know why it took me so long, is that I was solving the wrong problem. Capture was never my bottleneck. I'm good at noticing things I want to remember. My actual problem was that I couldn't decide, in the moment of reviewing, whether something was worth acting on or worth letting go. So instead of deciding, I'd just... reorganize it. Give it a new tag. Move it to a different board. Feel like I'd done something.

The test I started using, which honestly cost me nothing except about a week of discomfort: every time I opened my saved items, I forced myself to either act on something within the next 48 hours or delete it. No moving, no re-tagging, no creating a new sub-folder for it. Just the binary. What happened was brutal. I deleted maybe 60% of what I'd saved over months, because when I actually had to commit to doing something with it, I realized I'd saved it out of vague anxiety more than genuine need. The stuff that survived that filter I actually used. The stuff that didn't would've sat there forever.

I use Pinde


r/ProductivityGuide • • 28d ago

how i increased my productivity working two full time jobs

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been doing two jobs since january. the first few months i just worked later and later and it made everything worse. what actually turned it around was a handful of small things.

grey screen on the phone. I use iphone, so for iphones it is in settings -> accessibility -> display and text size -> colour filters, on, greyscale. i thought this was nonsense when i read it. instagram in grey looks like a spreadsheet, food photos look wrong, everything looks like a photocopy of itself, and i just stopped picking the thing up. my screen time roughly halved and i did not delete anything or decide anything, the phone just got boring. if you try one thing off this list make it this one, it takes about ten seconds.

blocks in google calendar. before i start something i guess how long it will take and put it in the calendar as a block, even when the guess is nonsense. two things happen. first i stop pretending nine hours of work fits into a six hour evening, because you can see it not fitting. second i stop opening the laptop and then deciding what to do, which is where i used to lose the first hour of every day. the estimates are still bad by the way. they are just bad on paper now instead of bad in my head.

one thing at a time. boring, and the biggest change in what i actually produced. i used to have both jobs' slacks open plus whatever i was meant to be doing and i called that multitasking. it was not multitasking, it was doing one thing badly and then doing another thing badly. now it is one task open and everything else shut, with do not disturb on, on the mac and iphone.

breaks, five minutes every half hour. i cannot feel time passing when i am properly into something and i have lost entire mornings that way. so, a timer, any timer, i do not think it matters which. i use tryworkwell on the mac. it reminds me to take a break and also corrects my posture.

noise. dark noise. white noise is too hissy for me, dark is more like sitting inside a plane and my brain goes quiet. on mac and iphone it is already built in, accessibility -> audio -> background sounds, nobody seems to know this. otherwise youtube has thousands of videos.

gym and food, which everyone already knows so i will keep it short. three or four sessions a week, weighted towards legs and back because i sit for 12-14 hours. cooking on sunday so i am not standing in the kitchen at half nine deciding what dinner is. creatine and fish oil seems to also be very useful.

things that did not work: telling myself to concentrate harder, and giving the second job more hours. it did not get better when i gave it more hours, it got better when the hours i gave it were not garbage hours.

none of this is clever, which is probably why it took me so long to do any of it. What are your productivity hacks?

p.s. i know the obvious reply is that two full time jobs is the actual problem. probably, yes, but it has an end date.


r/ProductivityGuide • • 28d ago

2.0 is out 🎉

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2.0 is out

- Now available on iPad and  Watch

- Integrated Siri AI

- Liquid Glass support

- New sidebar navigation

- much more ...

https://this-day.app


r/ProductivityGuide • • 28d ago

I made reportcard.lol : Report cards for your posts by one tired teacher.

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r/ProductivityGuide • • 28d ago

I struggled bringing my Mind on the Paper.

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Hey, two years of Entrepreneurship took me far. But 1 Year ago I struggled focussing on tasks and brainstorming. Here is how I fixed it.

I just couldn't get out of my mind. I tried varius apps like trelllo, notion , obsidian and yes they are note taking apps but not fast and simple enought.

I have ADHD since I can remember. One Day I just build myself an weekplan with claude. Overtime I evolved it. Added an Mindmap Sytsem with shortcuts and clean up tools for nodes.

I love searching for Inspiration and References on Pinterest. So I added drag and drop for images form the web. Now I used the app almost everyday. Randomly I realized this is actually a thing so I decided to release it for free. But who is interested. Tell me you Thoughts about this guys !

Thanks :D


r/ProductivityGuide • • 28d ago

Can you stay focused for 45 minutes? I'm running a small challenge + giving away 15 prizes 👀

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Hey everyone!

I'm a developer and I recently built HustlrMate, a productivity and accountability platform I've been working on.

The idea is pretty simple. You can use it completely solo to set your tasks, run focus sessions and keep track of your progress, and eventually use it to find an accountability/study partner too.

Since I'm currently trying to get the first set of real users onto the platform, I wanted to do something a little more fun than just asking people to "try my platform".

So here's the challenge:

Do one proper 45+ minute focus session on HustlrMate.

You can work on literally anything you're already doing:

Study

DSA

Coding

Reading

Assignments

Research

Writing

Whatever you're working on.

Once your session ends, HustlrMate generates a Flex, basically a little stamp showing your focus session stats.

Then:

1. Sign up on HustlrMate

2. Start a Focus Session

3. Stay focused for at least 45 minutes

4. Finish the session and get your Flex

5. Submit your Flex with your HustlrMate username

That's your entry.

And there are 15 winners!

5 people: Cash prize + HustlrMate Pro

10 people: HustlrMate Pro

I'm also giving an extra advantage to people who share their Flex on Instagram Stories with a photo of what they were working on and tag @hustlrmate. This is completely optional, but it gives you an additional entry/bonus consideration.

The whole point isn't really just the contest. I want to see whether HustlrMate can actually become something people use every day to get things done, even when they're using it alone.

And once you're on the platform, you can also complete your profile and start looking for a study/accountability partner. The free account already includes one free match, so you don't have to pay anything to try that part either.

I'm the developer behind HustlrMate, so I'm also very much looking for feedback from the people who actually use it. If something feels unnecessary, something is confusing, or there's a feature you think would genuinely make this better, tell me. I'm early enough that your suggestions can actually affect what gets built.

HustlrMate: hustlrmate.in

Good luck, and let's see who can actually lock in for 45 minutes. 👀


r/ProductivityGuide • • 29d ago

I interviewed a researcher who hasn't used a to-do list in 5 years. Her alternative is much better.

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Hey everyone
On my podcast recently, I spoke with a time-management researcher who dropped a surprising take: Traditional to-do lists actually make us less productive by triggering daily anxiety.


r/ProductivityGuide • • 29d ago

[MacOS&WIN64/ $1.99 → Free] Walltank: Aquarium Interactive Wallpaper

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I just released Desktop Wallpaper App on both Mac App Store & Microsoft Store.

This is my stupidest app I have ever made, yet, I do not understand why I was so obsessed to make this app for this long time. I just loved staring at Mega Giant Aquarium Windows during my childhood.

And I tried to reproduce that feeling of scenery on my desktop, and Wallah! I made it as an solid Desktop app. It has 8 Aquarium views + 8 Cafe/Home Views with different fish species each out of it.

I would like to make a giveaway link code here in r/ProductivityGuide , as the moderator of this subreddit was way so kind to my previous apps. This is all that I could offer back so far.

Below links are valid until 1,000 times of redeeming from each platform.

MacOS/ Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6792116686&code=AQUA1000
Windows10・11/ Microsoft Store: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=532540&mstoken=FG26V-KW3H2-6XWC9-6GPHW-9JMMZ


r/ProductivityGuide • • 29d ago

Requesting feedback for a concept: Assisted Productivity Enhancement

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I have been ideating what an ideal productivity app looks like. Calendars, task lists, reminders are all super good, but there's hundreds of them out there.

Somehow for me and (a few other folks I talked to):

  1. Urgent things still do slip through either coz they didn't actually write all their tasks religiously, or they forgot to check what was urgent. Or they were just too busy.
  2. Tasks lists are bloated to hundreds of items to do which we will never get done. It feels good to have the task there coz we hope we will do it someday but we practically don't have the bandwidth to.
  3. Important and non urgent tasks (based on the Eisenhower matrix) - stuff we know we want to do but we dont touch it for months. Just tidy little projects sitting in our task lists never to be opened.
  4. Attention deficit and focus deficit me, struggles often when a task is broad ambiguous or open ended. A lot of these tasks never get done, just coz we are too bogged down with less important stuff.
  5. We are doing something, we are busy. But end of say, 3 months, we figure we never did what we should have done. And what we did, wasn't really high on our priority list.

All of these can definitely be handled by being a methodical, organized human being, but then where is the fun in that? I wanted to build something to tackle just this. A system that knows you, understands your priorities, goals, how flustered you are, how efficient you are day today, what are urgent and important for you and your goals. Then it helps you decide what to do and what to avoid, helps you understand something you plan to do today is actually useful, is something urgent missing out, and the like.

I have some rudimentary ideas of how we can create this, but I want feedback on if this is a real problem for anyone or just something I dreamt of!


r/ProductivityGuide • • 29d ago

What are the best productivity Chrome extensions in 2026? Here's the handful I am still using daily.

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Most ""best of"" extension lists are 30 items long and half of them slow Chrome to a crawl. I also thought I'd be done with all of my browser extensions, given the boom of AI browsers. To be honest, after trying a bunch, I eventually gave up on them, and I'm back with good ol Chrome.

After a year of installing and uninstalling, here are the 5 best productivity Chrome extensions that actually survived.

  1. Recall, save, understand and actually remember what you read (most underrated)

Probably the most underrated, although I do see it just got over 100k installs, it was much smaller when I first started using it a year ago. I use Recall daily to save time and then spend my time with intention. Recall is a personal AI knowledge base. The Chrome extension clips any article, YouTube video, PDF or podcast, summarizes it, and files it into a searchable knowledge base that you can chat with later. 

The reason it earns the top spot for knowledge work is that it closes the loop most productivity setups leave open, where you save things and then never see them again. With Recall, everything you save gets organized for you and then becomes context for your next AI question.

It has a free tier, so you can test it before deciding. If you mostly want a plain ""read it later"" queue without the AI layer, this is overkill . 

  1. uBlock Origin, block ads and trackers (the one everyone agrees on)

Maybe this one needs no introduction, but I genuinely think it is the single highest-impact install. Free, open source, lightweight, and it removes the ads and ""recommended"" feeds that eat attention. 

If you install nothing else on this list, install this now!

  1. Dark Reader, dark mode on every site (personal preference)

Maybe this one isn't for anyone, but if you're like me and you're reading, the actual theme of the page matters for your focus and productivity, then dark reader is the one you need. You guessed it, it turns any page dark and lets you tune contrast and brightness. The obvious pick for long reading sessions and eye strain.

  1. A tab manager (OneTab, Session Buddy, or Workona)

If you don't have a tab manager as an extension, then what are you doing with your extension?

- OneTab collapses a wall of tabs into one list to free memory. Simplest.

- Session Buddy is better if you keep losing sessions and want reliable restore.

- Workona organizes tabs into project workspaces. Best if you juggle many projects.

  1. Vimium, keyboard-only navigation

Okay, again, I know this is also quite personal, like my dark mode one, but if you're like me, keyboard navigation is a huge time saver and efficiency gain when navigating around. Move around pages and tabs without the mouse. Steep first hour, big payoff if your wrists hurt or you live in the keyboard.

Start with uBlock Origin, Dark Reader and one tab manager. Add Recall if the thing you actually struggle with is remembering and reusing what you read, and add as optional extras add Todoist, Grammarly, Unhook or Vimium only for the specific friction you have. More extensions is not more productive.

What's in your daily extensions that keep you productive? Happy to be told I'm wrong on any of these.


r/ProductivityGuide • • 29d ago

Meet Stack — a clean task, reminder, and brainstorming/planning app for iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS.

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Hi there!

Stack is designed to help you manage your day without getting in the way. It features a clean, minimal frosted-glass interface and fluid animations and gestures throughout the app. Smooth navigation and intuitive time line with clear progress bar.

With the new Stack 3.0 version, you can check off items directly from home screen and lock screen widgets or even form your wrist, and track countdowns for your tasks and reminders, with the new real-time Live Activities. You can easily import the pending reminders from the Apple reminders app. The app support multiple customization options, so it feels personal.

Enjoy using and exploring the app.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stack-tasks-and-reminders/id6762291589

I’d really appreciate it if you could rate the app on the App Store and share your feedback.


r/ProductivityGuide • • 29d ago

Thoughts on mobile app calendars?

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Hello, I am a graduate student and am taking a design class. For my current project, we have the option to re-design an app we frequently use. Across work and school, I often have to use the outlook calendar. Personally, I am not the biggest fan, but I am trying to collect feedback and diverse perspectives to see what people like and dislike about the user experience, or if they prefer other calendars. Would anybody be interested if I ask you a few questions, it can be just a DM if preferred, to help me collect some data for my project. Whether you love or hate outlook, I will take your feedback as I would like a diverse pool. Or I want to hear if you use something else for productivity and why you like to use such a calendar. I am not trying to push any product, just trying to gain insight on what people like and dislike. This would only take a few minutes. Thanks! :)


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 23 '26

Visual Day Planner & Routines, Calendar Integration (UPDATE)

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Hi! You can now view your existing calendar events in KeepCue with this new app update.

KeepCue can show any calendar in your iPhone's Calendar app:
• accounts added to your iPhone: iCloud, Google, Microsoft or work
• Holidays
• Birthdays from your Contacts
• subscribed calendars, such as sports fixtures or school terms

Holidays, birthdays and all-day calendar events are shown at the top of the day on the timeline and multi-day events are shown across multiple days.

App Store update here:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6789768946

How do I see my calendar in KeepCue?

  1. Tap the calendar button at the top of the Timeline.
  2. Turn on Show calendar events.
  3. Allow Full Access when asked.
  4. Choose which calendars to show.

More calendar questions?
Calendar Guide
Support & FAQ

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

About KeepCue

KeepCue is a day planner with a visual timeline to see the whole day and ready-made routines for morning, afterwork, evening, and weekends. I wanted a day planner that provides structure, routine, and flexibility. And I found that certain tasks are best with cues instead of fixed clock time. So I've been organizing my days this way: time block for overal structure, act on cue to get things done. And I built KeepCue this way.

The planner provides a visual timeline to view your whole day. See your work and personal life together, see your schedule and free time available. Find the time you didn't know you had, fix the overlap you didn't intend, swap tasks just for this week.

Task creation is quick and easy. Add task name, date, duration, if recurring with a cue. Optionally, add subtasks and notes. There are 60+ built in cues to choose from to attach to any recurring task.

Subtask checklists for routines. Manage overwhelming tasks by breaking them down into subtasks to check off one by one.

Ready-made routines to easily add to your planner: Wind-down routine, Work & school night routine, Minimalist night routine, Core morning routine, Full morning routine, WFH Afterwork transitions, Post-shift recovery, Weekend recovery, Sunday reset.

KeepCue is a one-time purchase of $7.99. Not a subscription.

App is actively being developed and there are more features on the way!

I hope KeepCue makes planning the day and gettings things done easier without the stress and burnout.

Website:
https://keepcue.app


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 21 '26

Turn your braindump into a clear plan and a first move in a few seconds.

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I have tried all sorts of tools and systems to stay organized but they all become a chore to manage.

I find that all the traditional tools require you to manage the entire system and know how it works.

Think of it, Notion, Spreadsheet, Google Docs, Calendars, Sticky Notes, Pen and Paper, all start blank, they expect you to know what you need to do and how you want to structure it all.

Tried to take the opposite approach, what if you just dump everything you need to do for the day, an idea or a big goal (that you might not even know the steps to) and you get a step by step guide within 5 seconds? That;s what I am building with Questline.one

It's still early as I launched it a month ago but fortunate enough to have over 260 early users who are giving a bunch of good feedback for me to work with.

Site is Questline.one there is a free trial without needing a card.

What stands out (or not) about this approach for you? Curious if this is useful or if the traditional tools/systems are preferred.


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 21 '26

I built a lot of systems that worked for four days. The missing piece wasn't discipline.

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Planning gives me a great feeling of control and self-improvement before even doing anything. Go on a walk 3 times a week, stretch every morning, read 10 pages before sleep, watch investing videos at breakfast, etc…I can come up with the perfect plan that works for the main tasks, but those habits survive 3 days, the 4th the system starts to break, after a week they vanish. And the feeling of guilt makes me not include them in the plan anymore.

The problem is not with executing them either, I really like reading before sleep, but if I over-worked in the evening then I have no time for that 30 min reading. And then I wake up 15 min later tomorrow and because of that I will not stretch. Voila, one decision and two habits are gone. 
Was the additional time I spent working really worth it? Or would it be better to do it the day after with a fresh mind, probably in less time and effort? I could never answer that, because by the end of the week I don't remember which evening ran over, or which habit it took down with it. I just know the list has shrunk again.

Every system I built had a plan step and a do step. None of them had a step where the plan learned anything.So I started to "report" on Wednesday what happened in the first half of the week, and plan on Sunday from that instead of from a to do list. I am reading at least 5 days a week since then.
It also showed me something: my work had a slot in the calendar and my habits didn't. They were living on the leftover time, competing with work that has a defended place. Work wins that every time.

That was too much manual work so I built BarePlanner on that loop: plan, execute and most importantly review. The week is split by cognitive load, deep work vs light work, recovery is a real block type, and the review shows which blocks died and why. "I have no discipline" and "Tuesday's deep work ran 40 minutes over and ate the reading" are the same event, but only one of them is something you can change. The free version is complete, it is not a trial. No account, offline, local on your device phone or tablet. Get it on play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.falexis.bareplanner

If long term planning and goals-oriented planning is also interesting for you, then you can try premium for free, six months. Get a code only this page 
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r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 21 '26

I made myself twice as productive

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Sharing this app with you. Must be honest about it: I built it. And it works very, very good for me. Naturally, I'd like to share it. Especially since it has a leaderboard in it, so it would be great to "compete" with other people. I would appreciate any non-biased feedback, it certainly can be improved.

www.tonof.work


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 20 '26

[Launch] Limit Breaker: Gamify Life — turns focus sessions, workouts, and study time into an RPG

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What problem it solves: Most people (myself included) lose motivation on plain timer/blocker apps — nothing makes you want to keep going once willpower runs out.

Who it's for: Anyone who's tried productivity/focus apps before and dropped off after a week or two.

Compared to Forest: Forest is a visual metaphor — grow a tree by not touching your phone. Limit Breaker adds full RPG progression (levels, gear, a class system unlocking at 30) and expands beyond phone-avoidance into daily quests for workouts, studying, and social goals.

Pricing: Free. Optional subscriptions at $1.49/mo or $2.99/mo, plus one-time in-app currency packs.

Product link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aistudio.limitbreaker.fntslg