Set it Now — a daily planner that doesn't make you open six apps
Things people ask before signing up. If yours isn't here, email tim@setitnow.online — I'm a one-person team so it'll usually be me replying.
It's a daily planner. Tasks, your calendar, habits, a Pomodoro-style focus timer, a journal, a shopping list, and a shift roster — all in the one app. Phone, browser, same data.
The whole core app is free. There's a Pro tier at $15 AUD/yr (about a buck twenty-five a month) that unlocks the AI bits — Build My Day, Smart Schedule, Task Breakdown, the Weekly Review, and unlimited auto-categorisation. Free is enough for most people.
iPhone, Android, and the web at setitnow.online. All three are the same app with the same features. iOS and Android also get home-screen widgets, which the web obviously can't do.
It does. Sign in with Google or an email address and everything — tasks, events, habits, shifts, journal, shopping — turns up on every device in real time.
Google Calendar, Outlook, and Apple Calendar. You can also drag in a .ics file from anywhere else. Once connected, those events sit on the same timeline as your to-dos.
Five things, mostly. Build My Day generates a plan for tomorrow from your backlog. Smart Schedule finds an open slot for a task you don't know when to do. Task Breakdown takes a vague big task and splits it into smaller ones. The Schedule Optimiser rebalances a busy week. The Weekly Review writes a short retrospective each Sunday. Plus AI category guesses for new tasks instead of a daily limit. All of it runs on Google Gemini.
Nope. First launch creates an anonymous account on the device so you can start typing tasks immediately. When you're ready to sync to other devices (or unlock AI), upgrade that account to Google or email — your existing data carries over.
You start with four: water, steps (read from your phone's pedometer), reading, and meditation. Tap to log, the ring fills, and each habit feeds your daily Life Score. Pro lets you add as many custom habits as you want — study time, medication, whatever.
It's a Pomodoro-style timer that starts on a specific task instead of a generic 25-minute block. Pick a soundscape if you want one (rain, café, thunder, forest), the timer defaults to however long you said the task should take, and the session is logged so it counts toward your focus hours for the week.
That's actually one of the reasons it exists. Add shifts with start/end times, colour-code them, pin a location for the map view, and the week tallies your hours automatically. Save common ones as templates so rostering takes seconds.
You can. Make a shared calendar and invite other Set it Now users by email — handy for partners or housemates who want to see each other's events without merging their whole life.
A daily or weekly cap on how much time you want to spend on a category. Set "Work: 8 hours weekday max" and the app warns you as you get close. Useful if your job tends to spill into evenings.
All of those. Daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or specific days of the week (e.g. Mon/Wed/Fri gym). The instance for each date lives on its own, so checking off Tuesday's doesn't tick Wednesday's by mistake.
Write a sentence or a paragraph, pick a mood emoji, done. The app pulls tags from what you wrote (places, people, topics) and lets you scroll back later to see what was going on the week you slept badly.
Tap the mic, say "remind me to call the dentist tomorrow at 2pm" and it turns into a task with the right date, time and category. Saying "appointment" or "meeting" makes it an event instead of a to-do.
iOS has WidgetKit widgets for Tasks, today's Schedule, and Habits. Android has Tasks and Habits widgets. Both update live — tick something on the widget and it updates in the app and across all your devices.
Settings → Export, and you can pull tasks, habits, shifts and shopping lists out as CSV any time. Pro adds iCal export, a full JSON backup, and a styled PDF or CSV of any week.
One number for the day made from three things: how much of your task list you finished, how many habits you logged, and how much focused time you put in. It's not the meaning of life — it's just a quick way to see whether today went how you wanted, and whether the week's trending up or down.
Stored in Google Cloud Firestore behind Firebase Authentication, encrypted in transit and at rest. The data is yours — it isn't sold or licensed for ads, and there are no ads in the app. Full details in the Privacy Policy.
Settings → Delete account inside the app. That wipes your tasks, events, habits, shifts, journal, shopping, and account record from our servers. No "we'll keep a copy for thirty days" stuff.
Question I haven't answered?
Email tim@setitnow.online — I read everything.
Or have a look at the Privacy Policy or Terms of Service.