VoiceFirstPlanner
The voice-first personal day planner

The daily planner app you just talk to.

Say it, and it lands where it belongs: a task with the priority you give it, an appointment at the time you say, an item on the shopping list.

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Tap. Speak. Done.

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Eleven reasons, on one page.

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See it in action

A planner for iPad, phone, tablet, laptop or desktop.

It is a web app. It runs in the browser on all of them, with nothing to install.

Shown on a paid plan. The free plan is a working planner, with limits.

Prefer YouTube? Watch it there ↗

On an iPad, tablet, laptop or desktop, Planner view lays the day out as a two-page spread — the day on the left with the focus, the month, the hour-by-hour schedule and the prioritized list; notes and shopping lists on the right. A layout people have run entire careers on, because it works.

Except nothing is written twice, nothing unfinished is copied forward by hand, and nothing goes in a drawer in January. A phone carries the same day when you’re away from the desk, so the spread never has to travel.

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A voice-first personal day planner. Just talk — your day plans itself.

Personal, because a work tool answers to work. This one answers to you.

I don’t know what your weeks look like.I do know that almost every system we’re handed is built to run the work — not the person doing it.

The project tool runs the projects. The shared calendar runs the meetings. The job system knows exactly where everything stands, because somebody paid good money to make sure of it.

None of it was built for the person holding it all together. The appointment that keeps moving. The thing promised at home. The goal set in January. The health thing that’s been “next month” for a while. Those live somewhere else — usually in a head that’s already full.

That isn’t a personal failing. Nobody was ever handed a system for that part.

What is a voice-first daily planner?

A daily planner app you talk to instead of typing into. Say a task, an appointment, a note or something you have run out of, and it lands in the right place — dated, in a priority band, on the right list. No screen chosen, no folder, no date picked from a menu.

Tap once and talk.

Not to an assistant — to your own planner.

“Site meeting Thursday at ten, book the dentist for Mum, and remind me to call Sarah back — A priority.”

Before the phone’s back in a pocket: the meeting is on Thursday’s schedule. The dentist is a task with a date on it. Sarah is at the top of tomorrow, in the band that means first.

Three things — one from work, one from home, one that’s both — filed correctly in a single breath.

And anything said can be found again by asking for it. Say anything in, find anything back.

Everything else a daily planner does is still here: the week ahead, your calendar, projects, notes, the shopping list, habits, goals and values. The difference is how it gets in.

Your calendar

Work’s calendar comes in on your terms.

Work’s meetings can come into your planner. Every one is shown first, and every one is your decision. One-way — nothing you do here ever changes your work calendar.

In this film

A calendar file from work, a tick box on every meeting, and only what you chose comes in. One-way — nothing you do here ever changes your work calendar.

Shown on a paid plan. The free plan is a working planner, with limits.

Prefer YouTube? Watch it there ↗

Your calendar, on your terms →

Further than this week

The part the work systems don’t cover.

Underneath the daily page is a layer no work system is built to care about: what a person actually wants, and whether their weeks point at it.

Values. The goals that serve them. The habits that move them a little at a time. The things worth doing before it’s too late. And five minutes at night, if it’s wanted, to see whether the day matched the direction.

A task you can trace back to a goal, and a goal you can trace back to a value, is a different object from a task on a list.

Values first — the rest tends to follow →

What seems to be true

Written down beats remembered.

Not because memory is weak, but because a thing written down stops asking to be remembered.

And the asking is most of the weight.

The more of a life that sits in a place you trust — the personal side especially — the less there is to carry.

Not more done. Less carried.

Seven independent studies say something similar, published in full, including a 94-study analysis finding that deciding when and where in advance is what makes people follow through.

Read the research →

What it costs

The price.

Free to start — a working planner, not a trial. No card, no clock, nothing to install.

Premium is $3.99 a month, billed annually at $47.88 — about what a year of paper planner refills costs, except nothing expires in December.

See all the plans →

Free with your free account

Three books. All free with your account.

The VoiceFirstPlanner Instruction Manual, The VoiceFirstPlanner Voice Command Guide and The Voice First Life Planning System — Starter Workbook.

$19.98 for the Starter Workbook alone — all three free when you create your free account.

Create your free accountSee what’s inside
The VoiceFirstPlanner Instruction Manual, the VoiceFirstPlanner Voice Command Guide and The Voice First Life Planning System — Starter Workbook

I ran companies for years. Every one of them had good systems and they ran the business beautifully. Not one of them did a thing for me.

I planned my own life on two pages for fifteen years, then spent twenty trying to replace it. Eventually I got tired of waiting for someone else to build this.

— Dave Rees, Founder. More about why →

Wherever it makes sense to start.

One planner for the day, the week and the life: daily planning, the week ahead, your calendar, brain dump, voice notes, shopping, budget, habits, goals, personal values and your bucket list.

If the days are the problem — speaking a day and having it sort itself.Plan the day →If the direction is the problem — values, goals, habits, and a look back at night.Plan the life →If the evidence is the question — seven studies, published in full.Read the research →

Have a look and see if it fits.

Free forever. No card, no clock, nothing to install.

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“I like it, it actually understands me!”— Anthony

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Daily planner questions

What is a voice-first daily planner?

A daily planner app you talk to. You say the task, appointment, note or shopping item and it files itself — dated, prioritized and in the right place.

Is there a free daily planner app?

VoiceFirstPlanner is free to start, with no card and no clock: a working planner with limits, not a trial. Premium takes every limit off.

Do I need to install an app?

No. It runs in any browser on iPad, phone, tablet, laptop and desktop. Add it to your Home Screen and it opens in one tap.

Can I use it as a day planner for work as well as home?

Yes. Work’s calendar comes in by file and you tick what enters — one-way, so nothing you do here ever changes your work calendar.

FeaturesEvery feature, and the problem each one solves.Open Features →