A native Mac app for planning your day. Press ⌥⌘ K over anything, or hold ⌥⌘L and just say it, and it lands on the right day. Your Google Calendar sits beside your tasks, reminders ring at their time, and it all works offline.

Hello there,

I'm Anshul, and I built Diurnal because I could not find this app anywhere (at least not for free).

The problem was simple to say and hard to find: I wanted my tasks and my calendar in one place and I wanted to reach it without leaving whatever I was doing.

Every to-do app was a place I had to go. Switch to it, click around, file the thing, find my way back. By then the thought had cost me the work I was in the middle of.

So Diurnal is a key instead of a place.

Press ⌥⌘K over anything, write the thought the way you would say it, and it lands on the right day
Hold ⌥⌘L and just speak it, several tasks in one breath
Your Google Calendar sits beside your tasks, syncing both ways
Weekly planning built in: file a task into the week, drag it onto a day later
Reminders ring at the task's time
Native Mac app, works offline and its fast!

The weekly planning part was missing from almost everything I tried, or locked behind a subscription I did not want. So I built my own.

Try the real overlay in your browser at diurnal.in, no install needed.

I would love to hear how you capture things now and what I missed.

Nice touch that you can try the overlay right in the browser before installing anything. Are you planning to add Apple Calendar next to Google? Good luck with the launch today.

@protsenkoalexandra There's no immediate plan for Apple Calendar support yet, but I build based on user feedback! If enough people need it, I'll definitely add it.