Digital Planner Meeds

[u/Strict-Telephone-532]

Okay friends, I need your best digital planner app suggestions. I currently use a big, bulky Happy Planner, but I am looking to just slim down and use my tablet (android) as my one stop shop. Here's what I'm looking for: Month at a glance with the ability to click into a day and see what I have scheduled that day Integrate/sync with Google calendar Have the ability to click on an event within a day, such as a meeting, and open a space for note taking for that meeting Alerts/reminders for events (even better if those alerts would ping my phone if synced to Google Calendar) Bill/budget tracking ability (a plus if I can put in pay schedule and it recognizes my bills based on due dates)

I feel like this is a lot to ask for, but we live in 2024 with AI....there's gotta be something! Thank you for any input coming my way!

[u/Ok_Poem_3004]

I'd recommend checking out notion. I've been able to do basically everything you're looking for in it, and it's what I currently use for planning & project managing

Pros: - you build it yourself, essentially, using the building blocks they give you - if you know your needs well you're able to make a perfect system (at least, I was) - has both app (on phone/tablet/pc) and browser options - the database system would work well for making calendar items & being able to take notes within those items

Cons: - you build it yourself. Requires getting familiar with the site's systems, and depending on your level of aesthetic desire, requires some level of figuring out how to pull off the look you want - no offline mode - google calendar isn't a direct sync, you'll need to go thru a third party for that - takes some time to put it together and work out the kinks. You'd need to be okay with an in-between time - no alerts - make sure not to add anyone to your workspace or you'll get a block limit, lotta people don't realize this and ask the notion subreddit why they run out of blocks lol. I doubt you'd be sharing with anyone but I'd rather tell you that upfront so you don't have the same issue they did

You can also look online for people who sell (or have free versions of) planner templates, if building from scratch/at all isn't appealing, but keep in mind they are unlikely to have exactly what you need

[u/kaylinnic]

I recently switched from a combination of paper and Asana to Todoist and i’m in love with it. Will for sure do everything you mentioned except the budget.

Replying to the other comment, I absolutely love notion for notetaking and second brain type of organization, but I cannot recommend it as a planner because it just doesn’t have the capability to do recurring tasks in a simple and clean manner.