A weekly planner for Mac, without the hour grid
Most of what you plan in a week doesn't need a time. "Send the revised quote" needs to happen on Tuesday, not at 2:15 on Tuesday. Tidy Day is a weekly planner for Mac built on that idea. Each day holds a list of tasks, and the week is a row of days you can move them between.
A task can still have a time when it needs one. Give it a time and you get a notification then, or 5 or 15 minutes before, even when Tidy Day is closed. The notification has Mark as Done and Remind Me in 10 Minutes, and the reminder follows the task if you edit it, move it, finish it or delete it. What you won't find is a grid to fill. An empty hour isn't a gap in your plan.
The whole planner lives in a small black island at the top of your screen. Move the pointer onto it, or press ⌃⌥D, and the week is there. If you haven't seen how that works, start with the menu bar planner page.
Moving through the week
Open the panel and you see the date, a thin progress bar, a week strip and the selected day's tasks. Most planning happens around the week strip:
- Drag tasks onto days. Drag a task to reorder it within the day, or drop it on any day in the week strip.
- Flip weeks while dragging. Hold a dragged task over the week arrows and the week flips, so you can carry it into another week.
- Use the context menu. Move a task to today, tomorrow, next week or any date you pick.
- Use the keyboard. ← → steps through days, ⌥← ⌥→ changes the week, and T jumps back to today. ⌘↑ ⌘↓ reorders the selected task.
Changes can be undone with ⌘Z, so rearranging the week costs you nothing if you change your mind. The week can start on Monday or Sunday, whichever matches how you think about it.
Up to three priorities a day
A week plan goes wrong when every task looks equally urgent. Tidy Day lets you mark up to three priorities per day. They're listed first, with a heavier ring, so the shape of the day is clear the moment you open it. Select a task and press P to mark it.
There are no colored tags or projects to maintain. The limit of three is the useful part. When you plan Thursday, it asks you to choose what Thursday is actually for.
Repeating tasks that don't pile up
Routines belong in a weekly plan too. A task can repeat every day, every weekday, every week, or on the days you choose.
Each day gets an ordinary task, created two weeks ahead and never back-filled. Because it's an ordinary task, you can check it off, move it or start a focus session on it like anything else. Edits carry forward to later days. Deleting one removes just that day, and Stop Repeating ends the series.
A missed occurrence doesn't pile up as unfinished. If you skip Monday's workout, Tuesday doesn't start with two. That keeps repeating tasks from turning into a guilt list.
When the week doesn't go to plan
Some days you'll finish less than you planned. Unfinished tasks never vanish. They stay on the day you planned them, and when you open Today, a banner offers two choices: Move to today, or Review.
In Review you go through them one at a time and decide for each: move it to today, pick a day, keep it where it is, or delete it. It's a good moment to be honest about what still matters. Some tasks deserve a new day. Some were never going to happen. There's a longer guide on what to do with unfinished tasks if you want a way to decide.
When a calendar with an hour grid is the better tool
Planning in days isn't right for everyone. If your week is mostly meetings, or you like to give every hour a job, a calendar with an hour grid will fit you better. Tidy Day has no hour-by-hour view, no team or shared lists, and no projects or Kanban boards. There's also no iPhone app or iCloud sync yet, so your week lives on your Mac.
You can also use both: a calendar for the appointments that happen at fixed times, and a list of days for the work around them. The guide on day-based planning vs time blocking goes through which suits which kind of week.
