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May 11, 2026
By Teun
Show HN: Planner app splits tasks, notes, calendars by workspace
A Hacker News user introduced a planner app built around separate workspaces for different parts of life, such as work, training, travel, or hobbies. Each planner includes tasks, notes, calendars, and a journal, with a shared Today view that shows scheduled items across planners.
A Hacker News user has built a planning app that organizes tasks, notes, calendars, and journals into separate workspaces called planners. The goal is to keep different areas of life apart while still giving users one shared view of what needs attention each day.
According to the product description, users can create a dedicated workspace for anything they want to track, including travel, cooking, exercise, hobbies, and other interests. Each planner has its own tasks, projects, notes, calendar, and journal, so work can stay in one space and personal goals in another.
The app’s main Today view pulls scheduled tasks from multiple planners into a single screen. That means users can see upcoming, recurring, and overdue tasks without switching between different calendars to reconstruct their day.
The creator says the planner is meant to stay simple and avoid features that decide things for the user. In the notes area, users can write in rich text, add galleries, nest notes into a hierarchy, and link notes to tasks for quick reference. The description says there is “no AI, no algorithms trying to think for you.”
Task management tools include projects, areas, tags, a logbook, drag-and-drop controls, and keyboard shortcuts. Users can also star items for a Focus view, hide tasks with a “use for later” option, and turn checklist items into tasks or tasks into projects.
The calendar is designed around each planner’s context. A user might schedule training sessions in one planner and travel plans in another, while still seeing all scheduled items in the main calendar view.
The journal feature acts as a private, chronological record. Users can write freely, attach photos and galleries, and keep track of progress over time without automatic streaks or other reminders layered on top.
The product description also includes examples of how the system could be used. One example is plant care: a user could create a planner just for plants, keep notes on care needs, schedule tasks in a plant calendar, and document growth with journal entries and photos.
The creator frames the app around reducing friction in planning. Instead of forcing users to rebuild context each time they return to a task list, the app keeps notes, dates, and related information together inside each planner.
The source did not include pricing, platform support, or a release timeline. It presented the product as a planner focused on separate workspaces, shared daily visibility, and manual organization rather than automated recommendations.