essentia - Personal Planner

Start each day knowing what truly deserves your time.

essentia is your personal planner and productive journal inspired by bullet journaling. A task manager, notes app, and calendar in one place — built around a simple philosophy: capture, plan, review, and let go.

Most productivity apps focus on accumulating. You create a to-do list, unfinished tasks stay there, and every morning you begin dragging yesterday’s guilt with you. essentia is different. It includes a review ritual no other app offers: it shows you what’s pending and invites you to decide. Move it to today? Reschedule it? Let it go? No guilt. Just clarity.

CAPTURE — CLEAR YOUR MIND Write down tasks, notes, and ideas instantly — no required fields, no upfront decisions. Everything goes into your inbox. Use the widget, the share extension from any app, or type directly in essentia. Empty your mind now, process later.

PLAN — AT YOUR OWN PACE When you’re ready, Triage guides you item by item: assign a date, move it to a collection, or leave it for later. Your daily and weekly planner to organize only what truly matters.

REVIEW — START FRESH Don’t drag yesterday’s list forward. Each morning, review what’s pending with a single tap: move it to today, reschedule it, or let it go. This review — the bullet journal migration — transforms a simple to-do list into a tool for mental clarity.

FEATURES

• Your day at a glance: unified tasks, notes, and calendar events
• Daily and monthly planner with calendar navigation
• Task manager with notes and checklist-style subtasks
• Markdown notes with preview
• Customizable reminders and notifications
• Collections to group by project, context, or topic
• Smart collections with dynamic filters
• Calendar integration
• Automatic detection of Zoom, Teams, Meet and more links
• Recurring tasks
• Locations attached to your tasks
• Availability calculation: see your free time slots
• Bulk editing to act on multiple items at once
• Full search across tasks, notes, and events
• Home screen widgets
• Fully offline support

iPhone · iPad · Mac Your personal journal, synced across all your devices. On Mac, enjoy a three-column layout, keyboard shortcuts, and a menu bar app for instant access without breaking your flow.

A minimalist planner. Not another app that adds noise. Just the essentials.

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