Ember
Your whole day, in one calm place, and nobody else's business.
Ember is a planner that brings your tasks, calendar, habits, notes
and time together, so you stop jumping between five apps to run one life. It
works the way you think, it looks after your focus, and it keeps everything
you put into it private: your planner lives with you, not on our servers.
Available for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Everything you plan, in one orbit
Start each day knowing exactly where you stand
The Dashboard is today on one page: a greeting, your day laid out on a
single timeline, what's due, what's slipped, the routines to tick off, and a
scratch pad for the thought you don't want to lose. A small planet travels
round its orbit as the day gets done.
A calendar that shows what really happened
See your week or month at a glance. Drag down any empty stretch of time to
plan a task there, just like Google Calendar. Time you actually spent working
is drawn right beside what you planned, so your calendar tells the truth about
your day.
Tasks your way: board, list or priority matrix
- Board: drag cards between lanes you name and colour yourself.
- List: every task in rows, with the columns you choose.
- Priority matrix: sort work by urgent and important, and see at once
what to do first, what to schedule, what to hand off and what to drop.
Every task opens into a full detail panel: dates and times, due dates,
priority, tags, subtasks, linked tasks, files, time estimates, comments,
documents and a complete history of every change.
Make it fit how you work
Rename and recolour your board's lanes, switch off the parts of a task you
never use, turn subtasks into full tasks of their own, and create custom
fields such as client, budget, rating or progress. Your planner, arranged
your way.
Habits that stick
Build routines for anything that repeats, tick off the days you did them, and
watch your streak grow. Missed a day? Doing it on a day off makes up for it,
because real life doesn't run on a fixed schedule.
Notes and documents that live with your work
Capture notes, turn a line into a task in one click, and write proper
documents (headings, checklists, tables, images) in an editor that looks
like the finished page. Documents are plain Markdown files, so they're yours
to keep and move anywhere.
Know where your time goes
Press Start on any task and a timer counts against your estimate. The
desktop app's floating timer stays on top of every other window, so you stay
focused while you work.
Reminders that respect your quiet time
Get a nudge before tasks and routines start, one daily summary of anything
overdue, and quiet hours when nothing gets through. In the desktop app,
reminders arrive even when the planner's window is closed.
Connects to the tools you already use
- Google Calendar: see your events in the planner, and send your tasks
and routines to your calendar.
- Obsidian: your documents are mirrored into your vault as Markdown, and
edits flow both ways.
- Light and dark themes, and any accent colour you like, always kept
readable.
Private by design
Most apps keep your data on their servers. Ember doesn't have any.
- We never see your planner. Your tasks, notes, documents and habits are
saved on your own device. We don't collect them, store them or have any
way to read them.
- Nothing of ours to breach. There is no Ember database of users
or their data, so there is nothing of yours for anyone to steal from us.
- No tracking, no ads, no selling. There are no analytics or trackers in
the app, and your information is never used to advertise to you.
- Your Google account stays with Google. Signing in happens on Google's
own page; we never see your password. The desktop app keeps its sign-in
locked by your computer's own security, and signing out removes it.
- Backups go where you choose. Back up to a folder on your computer, or
to your own Google Drive. In Drive, the planner can only open the one backup
file it creates, and never the rest of your files.
- Your data is never locked in. Backups are ordinary files you can keep,
copy or restore at any time, and documents are standard Markdown.
Works where you do
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| Desktop app | Windows, macOS and Linux. Installs in a minute and updates itself. |
| In your browser | The same planner, no install needed. |
| Offline | Planning doesn't need an internet connection. Only Google features do. |
Get started in minutes
A short setup gets you going: your name, the parts of life you plan for, the
routines you already keep, and how you'd like to be reminded. Your first day
can be planned before your coffee cools.
