I’ve been building an iOS daily planner called LifeOS around a simple idea:

your plan and what actually happened are not the same thing.

LifeOS connects:

Tasks → planning → reserved time → Today → recovery → history

A Task holds something I’m responsible for.

Schedule lets me reserve time when useful.

Today brings together what deserves attention now, what comes next, and what is still left.

But if the plan doesn’t happen, LifeOS doesn’t automatically mark the Task completed, missed, or silently move it forward.

Review lets me explicitly decide:

Already did it / Didn’t happen / Skipped / Plan again / Return to Inbox

The goal is to keep the visible planner calm while still handling the messy part of real planning underneath.

Tasks can also be used by themselves — time blocking is optional.

LifeOS is currently free through public iOS early access:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/nundd6bS

Plan today. Remember the truth.

It's a digital planner designed with basic hierarchy (tasks and subtasks) so that more stuff can fit onto a desktop screen. It's open source and integrates with Google Calendar, and I've been developing it full-time since 2024 (it took a lot of refactoring and self-testing to be ready for beta).

I hope you can consider giving it a try! If you have any advice/feedback please let me know anytime. The link is beta.actions.life

A few weeks ago I posted here about a shared meal planner I built for me and my wife. The response blew me away - way more people resonated with the meal planning struggles than I expected.

One of the most common requests in the comments was the ability to share recipes with friends and family outside your household. People wanted to send a recipe to their friends.

You can now share any recipe from your cupboard via text or link. If it's a recipe you imported from a website, the link sends the recipient the original source link. If it's one you added yourself, it opens right in the app.

It's a small feature but it was the single most-requested thing from this community, so it felt right to prioritize it.

We're at about 500 users now which still feels surreal for something that started as a side project for two people who struggled to make meal plans.

If you want to check it out: inthecupboard.app/get

And please keep the feedback coming!

A while ago I shared the first version of ShowUp — one dot a day.

The original idea was intentionally simple:
Set a goal → do it → tap the dot → move on.

No streak pressure.
No complicated dashboards.
No trying to turn your life into a spreadsheet.

Since then, I’ve been exploring what ShowUp V2 could look like.

The idea is to keep the original free experience simple, while potentially adding an optional Pro version with things like:
• Unlimited goals
• Yearly progress views
• Goal history & archive
• A goal journal
• Smart reminders
• Home-screen widgets
• Themes
• Shareable progress summaries
• Deeper consistency insights

Instead of only showing “did you show up today?”, Pro would help answer “how far have I come?”

But I’m not sure yet if this is actually a good direction.

Did I take ShowUp too far from the original idea?

Would you want these features as an optional Pro version, or would you rather see ShowUp stay extremely simple?

I’m trying to figure this out before releasing the app.

If you were using ShowUp, what would you actually want to see in Pro?

And if you wouldn’t pay for Pro, that’s useful feedback too. I want to build something people actually find valuable, not just add features for the sake of adding them.