Introducing Nagare

Suppose I want to review for an examination, and I’ve a dentist appointment later within the afternoon. The appointment is on my calendar; learning is on my to-do listing. I’d like to review for just a few hours earlier than I go away, however neither device by itself reveals me how learning matches across the appointment. I’ve to think about how every merchandise matches collectively to make up the day.

Early on I adopted Cal Newport’s How to Become a Straight-A Student: every morning I’d bridge the hole, combining calendar and to-do objects on a single sheet of paper. But copying over commitments I’d already recorded was labor-intensive, and assigning a time to each merchandise made the plan really feel inflexible.

I later moved to Things. It made the every day maintenance simpler, and its calendar integration appeared promising. But the calendar felt tacked on: occasions have been mounted on the high of the listing whereas duties sat under. I might see each in a single place, but I nonetheless needed to work out how they match collectively. I missed with the ability to interleave every little thing in a single listing, as I had on paper.

This led me to create Nagare, a to-do app constructed round the concept that calendar occasions and duties are each commitments.

In Nagare, each are represented by a single sort of merchandise, with an non-obligatory time.

You can put learning earlier than the dentist appointment in a single ordered listing, leaving the research merchandise untimed. The listing reveals how you plan the day to unfold with out requiring a precise begin time for every little thing. Timed and untimed commitments can sit wherever they belong in that order.

Bringing every little thing into one listing additionally gave me an opportunity to recuperate the simplicity of my every day sheet of paper. I saved the colours and shapes easy, with just a few controls across the listing. I took that restraint a step additional by shifting occasions and checkboxes to the fitting, so the controls keep out of the best way of what you’ve written. The result’s a web page that feels virtually like a handwritten word.

Lists additionally wanted to mirror what makes a day profitable: getting the few issues that matter most accomplished. Studying for the examination is likely to be certainly one of them. Items inside a precedence undertaking have a delicate glow that attracts consideration again to these intentions everytime you return to the app.

As you employ Nagare, your plans and accomplished objects turn into a report of your intentions and follow-through: what you’ve deliberate, what you’ve accomplished, and what’s left to do.

Nagare syncs your information via iCloud and makes this context out there to your agent via MCP. Your agent can draw on this context proactively that can assist you keep engaged together with your targets. That might imply suggesting alternatives to fulfill folks when your week has no social plans, or checking in when deliberate exercises repeatedly go unfinished.

I’m excited to share Nagare with you. It’s out there for iPhone and Mac on the App Store.