A gentler daily planner
composeDay
Compose your day, your way.
The planner that works with your brain, not against it. Built by an ADHD woman, for ADHD brains — calm, flexible, and never a source of shame.
Launching 2026 — early access soonTwo readings, one promise
Arrange it your way.
Shape your day to fit you — your pace, your order, your defaults. Set it up once, and the deciding is done.
And keep your calm.
No red alerts, no "overdue," no wall of guilt. Just a quiet, steady hand on your day — the exhale, not the alarm.
A planner that's on your side.
Most productivity apps run on deadlines, streaks, and completion-guilt — the exact machinery that makes ADHD brains feel broken. composeDay is built the other way.
The day is never lost.
Miss something? It quietly slots it back in — the next open spot, or the fallbacks you set. No red, no "failed," no punishment; nothing is ever lost.
Celebrate the attempt.
The win is starting, not finishing. The good feeling fires the moment you begin — because beginning is the hard part.
Show only what matters now.
No overwhelming list staring back at you. Just your next thing, until you choose to see more.
Your defaults, not ours.
Everything is adjustable to how you work. Configure it once — then stop deciding, and stay composed.
Not a to-do list. A system that bends to you.
composeDay does a lot — but every piece points at one idea: a day shaped around your real life and your real brain, that never punishes you for being human. A tour of what’s under the hood:
Plans around your real life
The Rhythm & Observance engine flexes your day around prayer, fasting, cycles, or secular rituals. Day models bend to nights and shifts — plus timezone, locale, holiday, and travel-time awareness.
The day is never lost
Auto-reschedule to the next open slot, your own ordered fallbacks, drift detection, and recurring patterns with dependencies. Never “missed” — always recoverable.
Real ways to start
A quiet background mode or voice-guided Watched Mode, a focus shield, timers of every kind, gentle alarms and wake-up, and sessions that survive interruptions.
Works with your brain
Energy-aware “where do I start?”, it learns how long things really take you and when you focus best, breaks tasks into breadcrumbs, and builds in transition buffers.
Track anything, privately
A track-anything framework, habits, self-metrics, and movement nudges — all encrypted, offline-first, and never sold.
Motivation without the whip
Celebrate-the-attempt rewards, a growth companion and a tree that remembers, and an optional gentle-RPG game mode.
Notifications that never overwhelm
A hard daily notification budget so it’s never a firehose — plus a studio to shape every type: sounds, profiles, your way.
Structure, when you want it
Contexts that batch your day by mode, nested life plans, leave and quota tracking, inboxes and kanban, and templates you can import or export.
Real weeks, set up once
One engine. Every kind of life.
composeDay bends to faith, to shift work, or to your own quiet routines — whatever anchors your days. Three people, three very different weeks:
Nourfreelance illustrator · ADHD
- Faith rhythmThe Ramadan fast — suhur & iftar — plus her five daily prayers, all shifting with the sun.
- FocusDeep-work days Mon & Wed; every errand batched into one Thursday run.
- When she slipsA missed task finds the next open slot. No red, no guilt.
SamICU nurse · rotating nights
- Day modelOn night weeks his “day” runs 7pm–7am; meals, meds, and sleep shift with the rota.
- Wind-downA protected recovery block after every shift, so he actually sleeps.
- Learns himIt saw his focus bottoms out at 4am, and stops nudging him then.
Elagrad student · not religious
- Own rituals16:8 fasting (noon–8pm, fixed hours), a daily 10-min meditation, a phone-free Sunday.
- AnchorsClasses locked as fixed points; everything else flows around them.
- Rest quotaThree rest tokens a week that never expire — resting is never failing.
Optional — game mode
A game you can’t lose.
Flip on game mode when you want a little extra spark. Same promise, more play — it celebrates every attempt and punishes nothing.
A companion that grows with you
It flourishes each time you show up — and never sulks on the days you don’t.
Points for starting, not finishing
XP and little trophies land the moment you begin — because beginning is the real win.
Surprise rewards
Small, unpredictable treats — novelty is rocket fuel for an ADHD brain.
Nothing to lose
No streaks to break, no progress to forfeit. Miss a day? Your game waits, right where you left it.
The promise
The whole thing is free.
Most planners hand you a taster and lock the features you actually need behind “Pro.” composeDay does the opposite.
Every engine, every mode, even the game — all of it ships free, from day one. You’ll never hit a wall that says “upgrade to plan your day.”
Only future improvements — extra conveniences, nice-to-haves — are ever paid, and always optional. Because a planner built by someone who was failed by paywalls won’t paywall what you need.
Made by someone who needed it
“Every other planner made me feel broken — streaks that shamed me, a red badge for being human. So I built the one I actually needed: no guilt, no punishment, just a calm way through the day.”
— composeDay, built by an ADHD woman, for ADHD brains.
And, always —
Have a composed day.