for freelancers, solopreneurs, and serial planner-restarters

the hourly daily planner app that resets with you.

PlanHourly turns your messy list into a realistic hour-by-hour schedule. It is a time blocking app for people who need today to feel possible: no infinite backlog, no overdue shame, no week-long productivity fantasy.

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the problem with most daily planner apps is planner debt.

you download a new productivity app. for the first week, it feels great: clean labels, neat projects, a beautiful future version of you who never gets interrupted.

then life happens. tasks pile up, red badges appear, overdue reminders buzz, and yesterday keeps following you into today. The app that was supposed to help becomes proof that you are behind.

so you stop opening it. Not because you are lazy, but because the tool has turned planning into another thing you can fail at.

too many

open loops

tasks, follow-ups, errands, and ideas all competing for the same hours.

too many

places to check

calendar, task app, notes app. more places to maintain before you can work.

not enough

mercy for real life

most tools keep score even when the day changed for perfectly human reasons.

PlanHourly breaks the cycle by refusing to carry the mess forward.

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a time blocking app that forgets on purpose.

PlanHourly is an hourly planner that only shows three days: yesterday (read-only), today, and tomorrow. That's it. No weekly view. No monthly overview. No project boards. no backlog.

Every morning, you get a clean slate. Yesterday's unfinished tasks don't carry over automatically - you decide what matters today. Nothing haunts you. Nothing nags you. You turn intention into time and live the day in front of you.

keep the plan small enough to trust
see what actually fits before the day runs away
restart without rebuilding your whole system

less history. more momentum.

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lunch
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design review
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your focus

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ready to plan

from chaos to calendar in under a minute.

PlanHourly keeps planning close to the shape of a real day: list it, place it, adjust it, move on.

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empty your head

drop in the work, errands, ideas, and life stuff trying to rent space in your brain. nothing needs to be perfect yet.

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make the day honest

drag tasks into real hours. See what fits, what needs a shorter slot, and what deserves to move to tomorrow.

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follow the next hour

keep one calm view open from morning to night. When plans change, move the blocks and keep going.

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hourly planning, simple on purpose.

Every feature exists to answer one question: what should I do with the hours I have today?

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a day you can see

your tasks become blocks of time, so vague ambition turns into a plan you can actually follow.

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a clean slate every morning

yesterday stays read-only, today stays editable, tomorrow stays light. No automatic guilt transfer.

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focus when your brain is loud

strip away the panels and see the next block. Useful when the whole day feels too big to hold.

inbox

a soft place for loose tasks

capture things without deciding right away. Schedule them when you know where they belong.

event_repeat

routines that reappear

set recurring blocks for the anchors of your life, then build the rest of today around them.

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balance at a glance

work, personal, family, projects. If one part of life is eating the day, the colors make it obvious.

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capacity before commitment

the allocation bar shows planned time and free time before you promise the day more than it can hold.

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built around your real hours

early riser, night owl, split-shift worker: set the visible day to match how you actually live.

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small gaps stop disappearing

use short pockets for quick tasks without turning every spare minute into a productivity contest.

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built for people whose days refuse to behave.

planhourly isn't for everyone. it's not a project management tool. it won't help you plan a wedding or run a team of 50.

it's for people whose brains move faster than any day can hold. people who've tried every productivity system and abandoned them all. people who don't need a second job maintaining their planner.

if you've ever felt guilty opening a planner, this one's for you.

the freelancer

client work, calls, admin, and the invoice you keep remembering at 4:58 pm

the solopreneur

building something real while keeping paid work, content, and life moving

the overwhelmed planner

tried every system and needs one quiet page that starts fresh tomorrow

not another place for tasks to hide.

PlanHourly is deliberately smaller than Notion, Todoist, ClickUp, or a fully loaded calendar. That is the advantage.

every other app

closeendless task lists that keep growing after your energy is gone
closeoverdue badges that make yesterday feel like a character flaw
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checkone visual timetable for the day in front of you
checkno automatic backlog, so every morning starts clean
checka three-day window: yesterday, today, tomorrow
checkfewer features, less maintenance, more follow-through

built by someone who kept quitting planners.

i've tried every productivity app out there. notion. todoist. clickup. asana. i never stuck with any of them.

the pattern was always the same - i'd start strong, fall behind, feel guilty, stop opening the app, and start looking for a new one. i don't know if it's adhd, a discipline problem, or something else entirely. but i know the feeling.

what finally worked for me was radically simple: just focus on today. don't look at last week. don't plan next month. just look at the hours i have right now and make a plan honest enough to survive contact with real life.

so i built the planner i actually needed: one that forgets yesterday, shows me today, lets me sketch tomorrow, and then gets out of the way.

- kenneth, solo founder

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the questions people ask before they try it.

PlanHourly is intentionally small. Here is what that means in practice.

Is PlanHourly just a calendar?

No. Calendars are great for appointments. PlanHourly is for shaping the unscheduled parts of your day: tasks, admin, focus work, errands, routines, and the things that usually float around in your head.

Is PlanHourly a time blocking app?

Yes. PlanHourly helps you turn tasks into time blocks on a daily timeline, so you can see what fits before the day gets away from you.

What happens to unfinished tasks in PlanHourly?

They do not roll forward automatically. Tomorrow starts clean, and you choose what deserves another slot. That design choice keeps the planner from turning into a guilt archive.

Is it too simple for serious work?

It is simple because serious work needs follow-through, not another system to maintain. Use your project tools for projects; use PlanHourly to decide what you will actually do today.

Is PlanHourly good for ADHD planning?

PlanHourly can be useful for ADHD-friendly planning because it keeps the visible plan small, turns vague tasks into concrete time blocks, and starts fresh every morning.

simple pricing, no bloated bundle

one calm plan. everything included.

Less than most abandoned productivity subscriptions, built for the one planning habit that matters: opening it again tomorrow.

$7/month

or $59/year (save 30%)

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Try it on a real week. Keep it only if it makes tomorrow easier to open.

tomorrow morning can feel lighter than today.

Open PlanHourly, choose what matters now, and build one honest day hour by hour.

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