A planner you can keep for a year without tidying it

A week you can see all at once, with the day, month and year around it, and simple trackers for the things you want to keep an eye on. You write a line once and it stays where you put it until you move it.

or just read down the page, it’s in order
In short

Planye is one app for planning your whole life: your tasks on a grid of days crossed with your own categories, with day, month and year views around it, a journal, and trackers for habits, mood, money and cycle. It starts on the day you open it rather than in January, holds only the pages you choose, and works in a browser and on a phone. The core of it is free with no time limit, and Planye+ is paid by the month or the year.

Why a virtual planner rather than paper

Plans change; the page doesn't have to

Drag a task to another day instead of crossing it out and writing it again. A week you have reorganised three times still looks like a fresh page.

Every week starts from the last one

The categories, habits and trackers you were using are offered back as drafts, one tap to keep. Nothing is written until you accept it, so a week you skip stays empty.

The tracking adds itself up

Tick a habit, note a mood, log a spend. The chains, the months and the totals are already counted when you look back in December.

Planners, and why keep one

The general questions, answered honestly. What Planye does about each one is at the end of the answer.

What is a planner actually for?

Holding a decision so you stop re-making it. A to-do list records what you have not done yet; a planner records when you meant to do it, which is the part that stops a week being an argument with yourself every morning.

That is why most planners are laid out as days rather than as one long list. Seeing Thursday already full is what tells you to put the new thing on Wednesday instead.

Why use a virtual planner rather than a paper one?

Because plans change and paper does not. On paper, every change means crossing out and rewriting, and after a few weeks most people stop planning instead.

In an app you just move the task. You also get what paper can't do: it's on your phone when you're away from your desk, it adds up what you track, and it doesn't stop at the end of the year.

Is paper better for anything?

Yes, and it is worth saying rather than pretending otherwise. Writing by hand is slower in a way that helps you think, a notebook has no notifications in it, and nothing digital feels quite like a finished page.

Planye is built to lose as little of that as it can, which is why it is laid out like a planner rather than like a task app, and why it has a journal you arrange by hand. If what you want is the ritual, keep the paper. If what you want is the plan to survive contact with a real week, this is the trade.

How is this different from a calendar or a to-do app?

A calendar answers when something happens and is mostly other people's appointments. A to-do app answers what is outstanding and has no opinion about when. A planner is the middle: your own week, laid out, with the things you decided on it.

Planye keeps both readings of the same week. The default is your own categories crossed with the days; one toggle sets the same entries against the clock instead.

Does planning a week actually help?

For most people the useful part is not the plan, it is having decided once. A week written down on Sunday spends the rest of the week answering questions you would otherwise answer again every morning, usually worse and usually late.

It also survives being wrong. A plan you rearrange three times still did its job, which is why nothing in Planye counts what moved or marks anything overdue.

How much time does keeping one take?

Ten minutes on a Sunday and a glance most mornings is the shape that lasts. Anything more elaborate tends to be the reason people stop.

That is why Planye starts with five modules instead of eleven, and everything else is optional. A planner should not take work to keep up.

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