GC—003
Muridae
Productivity Mouse
Mus operosus
A weekly planner built around a single idea: you cannot plan a week without knowing how long things take. Every task carries an estimate. As you drop tasks onto days, each day's hours add up in front of you against the capacity you actually have. It is the paper week-to-view diary — the week on one side, notes and loose tasks on the other — made fast, and honest about time.
Almost out
You see an overloaded Thursday while it is still Tuesday
A list without estimates is not a plan, it is a wish. Give each task a length and the week stops being a guess: every day shows its planned hours against your own daily capacity, and the bar turns red the moment you have promised more than the day contains.
The short account
- Habitat
- Anyone who must fit real tasks into real hours. Especially people who bill or account for their time — lawyers, consultants, accountants, freelancers — for whom the gap between planned time and available time is the whole game
- Also suits
- People juggling fixed appointments and flexible work, anyone whose to-do list keeps rolling over, and anyone building a routine
- Requires
- No methodology, no setup ritual, no account. If you can type Draft report 2h thu, you are using it
- Range
- iPhone and iPad. On a wide screen it opens into a true two-page diary spread — the week on the left, tasks and notes pinned on the right
- Where it lives
- Your device. No account, no cloud, no tracking, no ads
- Upkeep
- Thirty days free, then one purchase. Never a subscription
- Status
- Almost out — in final testing
Three things it does that a to-do list cannot
Quick wins first
By default each day's list orders itself shortest first, so the small jobs sit at the top and get knocked out early while momentum builds, with the long-haul work below. Estimates do not only fill the day's meter — they keep you honest during the day, because you know what a task is supposed to cost you before you start it.
Everything moves
Plans change and the app assumes it. Loose tasks wait in a To schedule tray above the week; tap Pick day and every day's current load appears as a strip of mini-buttons, so you drop the task where it actually fits. Any item can be moved from its edit sheet. If the week is simply full, Defer to next week lifts it out in one tap, carrying its title, estimate, notes and priority. Finished days fold to a single line, and past days fold away by themselves.
Capture at the speed of thought
One input bar, always there. Type the way you would say it and it reads the length, the day and the time, showing each as a removable chip before you commit. Leave the day out and the task waits in the tray until you place it.
It also understands 90m, 1h30, 1.5h, today, tomorrow, weekend, 2pm and 930.
In this order, every time
High priority first
Anything marked with the red exclamation rises to the top of the day, whatever else is there.
Then anything with a set time, in time order
Appointments keep their slots. Everything else flows around them.
Then everything else, shortest first
So the day starts with things you can finish. Switchable off in settings if you would rather order it by hand.
Everything it does
- The week
- Seven day cards, Monday to Sunday, with today outlined · planned hours against capacity with a fill bar, plus a green tally of hours completed · tap a day header to collapse or expand it · tick boxes complete items, which strike through and count toward the done total · timed items show their time in a tinted pill and estimates in a grey one · high-priority items carry a red exclamation and rise · week arrows to navigate, and a tap on the header to jump back to today
- Loose tasks
- Unallocated work appears both in the tray above the week and on its own tasks page, each showing its estimate, with the unscheduled hours totalled so Monday planning sees the full debt · a weekly notes panel, the other page of the diary
- Editing an item
- Rename · mark done · mark high priority · change day · set or clear a time, typed rather than scrolled, accepting 14:00, 2pm or 930 · pick an estimate from quick chips between fifteen minutes and four hours · add notes · defer to next week · delete
- Other views
- Today strips the screen to the present day alone, with the capture bar pre-targeted to it · Month shows a calendar grid of each day's planned hours and load bar, overbooked days flagged red, with month totals for planned, done and completion — and tapping any day opens its week
- Statistics
- This week and this month, planned against done with a completion percentage · all-time hours completed and items finished · your busiest weekday by planned hours · an eight-week chart of planned against done, which is really a chart of how good your estimates are getting · a by-weekday load chart
- Habit tracker
- Optional and off by default. Turn it on and a habits tab appears beside week and tasks · each week lists every habit with seven tick boxes and a running count, green on a perfect week, and each week keeps its own record · a report charts consistency per habit over four, eight, twelve or twenty-six weeks with totals and averages · removing a habit archives its records rather than destroying them, re-adding the same name offers to restore everything or start fresh, and every destructive action asks first
- Weekends
- Include or exclude Saturday and Sunday individually, or combine the weekend into one block with doubled capacity and schedule to it as a single unit — weekend works in the capture bar too
- Settings
- Daily capacity in hours · shortest-first ordering on or off · Saturday, Sunday or combined weekend · habit tracker, with a management panel for adding, renaming and removing
No account, no cloud, no tracking, no ads. All of it stays on the device. Nothing about how you spend your week is of any commercial interest to us, which is the correct relationship to have with a planner.
Your plans shouldn't have a landlord. Free for thirty days with everything unlocked. After that your plans stay viewable forever, and adding or editing asks for a single once-off purchase. One purchase. No subscription, ever.
Questions people actually ask
Do I have to estimate everything?
No, but the app is much less useful if you don't. The estimate is what turns seven lists into a week you can trust.
What if I'm bad at estimating?
You will get better, and the eight-week chart of planned against done is precisely the feedback loop that does it.
Is this a calendar?
No. A calendar holds appointments. This holds work, and gives appointments their slots so the work can flow around them.
What happens to what I don't finish?
Defer it to next week in one tap. It lands on next week's list with its title, estimate, notes and priority intact, ready to place when you plan that week.
Do I have to plan the weekend?
Only if you want to. Saturday and Sunday can each be switched off, or combined into a single weekend block with doubled capacity.
Is there a subscription?
No, and there never will be. Thirty days free, then one purchase.