Plan Forward is live — a planner built around the review, not the list

Plan Forward is now live on the Play Store. It is a daily task planner, which is a crowded shelf, so it is worth being clear about the one thing it does differently.

The problem isn’t capture

Every task app on your phone is excellent at capture. Type it, dictate it, share it in, and it’s on the list. Which is why nobody’s problem is an empty list — the problem is a list of forty things where eleven of them have quietly rolled over for three weeks and you have stopped seeing them.

The habit that fixes that isn’t a better inbox. It’s a short ritual at each end of the day: decide what today is actually for, and then honestly look at what happened. Almost every productivity system worth anything says some version of this. Almost no app is built around it — the review is a report screen you visit if you feel like it, if it exists at all.

Plan Forward puts the loop in the middle.

The loop

Morning — a nudge to triage yesterday’s inbox item by item (do today, schedule, drop), pick your Most Important Task, look at today’s commitments, and decide the fate of stale tasks. That last step is the uncomfortable one, and the one that keeps the list honest: a task that has been snoozed four times and last seen twelve days ago is shown to you with three buttons — Do this week, Drop it, Keep.

Evening — mark each task done, partial or missed. Compare your estimate against the timer. Snooze or reschedule what’s left, deliberately, instead of letting it roll silently into tomorrow.

Weekly — completion rates by category, recurring-task adherence, an aggregated time-bias report, and a stale-task clean-up.

The opinionated bits

A few decisions we made that other planners make differently:

Recurrence is occurrence-based. A recurring task stays one thread with occurrences under it, not a pile of duplicate rows. Four rule types cover almost everything real: fixed interval, weekday, after-completion (the important one — “water the plants three days after I last did, not every Wednesday”) and monthly-by-day. Streaks track the task, not the occurrence.

Bulk shift is a first-class feature. A day goes sideways — a meeting overruns, a child gets sick — and a normal planner leaves you rescheduling fourteen items by hand, which nobody does; they just let the day rot. One tap shifts today, or the whole week: +3 hours, end of day, tomorrow, +2 days. Anchored subtasks move with their parent, and there’s a ten-second undo.

Effort is tracked so bias becomes visible. Estimate a task, run the built-in timer, and the weekly report names the categories where you consistently underestimate. Not to make you feel bad — to make tomorrow’s plan realistic.

Natural language input, with voice. Type email Sara tomorrow 4pm #work !high and the date, time, tag and priority get pulled out. Eighteen-plus date patterns are understood out of the box.

What’s next

The current build is the loop, capture, lists, schedule and review. On the list next: sharper notification actions, an onboarding flow that gets you to your first morning review faster, and export. If you use it and something annoys you, tell us — we’re a small studio in Kochi and feature requests from real users are most of our roadmap.

Plan Forward is free on Google Play. The full feature tour is on the product page.