Draftaday is a macOS day planner for days that aren't perfectly structured — made for people who work best with a little flexibility. You can quickly sketch out your plan, add tasks on the fly, and see your calendar events to plan around them. It's fast, intuitive, and lets you exclude unwanted events, pin recurring ones, or mark them as to-dos that stay until completed.

Click "Draftaday" in the macOS menu bar, then click "Settings".

On the "General" tab in Settings, you can change the start and end times for the planner. There is a unique setting for weekdays and weekends.

Draftaday can use your system's notifications to alert you when events start (or are about to start).

On the "General" tab in Settings, set "Send system alerts" to "When events start", "10 minutes before", or "Never".

When you first enable alerts, macOS will show a prompt in the top right corner of the screen so you can grant permission.

If you've paid for the upgrade, you can add breaks to your planner. These are dark hatched areas that show when you plan to have some downtime.

To enable them, open Settings and click on the "Breaks" tab. Choose the starting time and length, and then choose on which days the break is active. You can add up to three breaks in total.

By default, Draftaday allows you to place events anywhere. To enable snapping to 15-minute, 30-minute, or 1-hour increments, open Settings and make a choice next to "Snapping". Note that snapping does not apply to calendar imports.

Draftaday works best when you can see it. You can configure the window to both "Stay on top" and become "Transparent" in Settings.

You can create an event by dragging out a box on the planner. Once the box turns blue, indicating it's over the minimum size, you can stop dragging and start typing. Press Return on your keyboard to finish.

Hover over the event and then drag the ◯ handle to move the event around.

Move your cursor to the edge of an event, then click and drag to resize.

There are two ways to delete an event:

• Hover over the event, right-click the ◯ handle, and then click "Delete".
• When editing the text contents of an event, delete all the text and hit "Return" on your keyboard.

When you pin an event, it will show on every day selected.

Hover over the event, right-click the ◯ handle, then "Pinned", and select either "All days" or the days on which you want the event to show.

When you mark an event as checkable, it will gain a checkbox and will appear each day until you complete it by checking the box.

Hover over the event, right-click the ◯ handle, then click "Checkable".

When an event is marked as checkable, Draftaday uses the Pinned function to show it on each day. This means you can stop a checkable event appearing on certain days via the "Pinned" menu.

You can add a link to a website or application to an event.

Hover over the event, right-click the ◯ handle, then click "Link".

Draftaday supports the system-wide macOS URL handler mechanism. If another app has registered a custom scheme — such as zoommtg:// for Zoom — you can use those URLs as event links, and Draftaday will show and open the relevant app automatically.

Draftaday can show events from your macOS system calendar. By adding Internet accounts to macOS, you can show calendars from Google and other services. For more information on adding Internet accounts, see "Add an Internet account" in Apple's documentation.

Calendar functionality is available in the paid upgraded version of Draftaday. Click on the "Upgrade" tab in Settings for more information.

Open "Settings" in the menu and switch to the "Calendar" tab. Click the toggle next to "Show calendar events".

Events will appear shortly.

Draftaday starts by showing all events from all calendars. In Calendar settings, you can uncheck events and calendars by clicking in the "Show" column.

If you hide one occurrence of a recurring event, Draftaday will try to hide matching events. If you ever need to reset the internal list of excluded events, you can click "Undo excludes" in Calendar settings.

All-day events appear as strips spanning the full day on the left of the planner.

You can choose to show or hide all-day events in the top section of Calendar settings.

Draftaday obtains calendar events from the macOS calendar. This means that when you create a calendar event on Google or another linked service, the event is not available until macOS has fetched the latest updates from your calendar. Once it has, Draftaday should show them within a few seconds.

You can speed up this process by launching the macOS "Calendar.app" and waiting for the changes to update.

If alerts do not appear, or Draftaday shows a yellow warning triangle by the setting, it means the application has been unable to send a notification. Open your "System Settings" and approve Draftaday in your "Notifications" settings.

If you're having any trouble or have any feature requests, please contact me.

If Draftaday is crashing, please opt to send a crash report when macOS asks. These come straight to me with a lot of useful debugging information.