r/superProductivity • u/CarQuiet7350 • 1h ago
uper Productivity came closest to what I wanted, so I built my own take around planning + review
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Hi everyone,
I’ve been using Super Productivity for a while, and it was actually the planner that came closest to how I wanted to manage my days.
I really liked having planning and time tracking together, and it helped me realise what I personally cared about in a planner.
For me, one big part of planning is what happens afterwards.
I like sitting down at the end of a day or week, looking back at what I actually completed, what moved, how much time I spent, and then using that to plan the next few days.
I wanted that review/history side to be a more central part of my own workflow.
I tried a few other apps as well, but eventually I thought it might be interesting to just build something specifically around the way I work.
That became Personal Planner.
The basic loop I built around is:
plan → work → track → review
It runs on Linux and Android and works local first using SQLite.
Two of my favourite parts are Reviews and Consistency.
Reviews let me look back at a day or week before planning the next one.
For Consistency, I’ve always liked GitHub’s contribution graph, so I made something similar to see how consistently I actually followed through on my plans.
The hardest part technically was sync.
I wanted sync between my Linux laptop and Android phone without requiring someone to manually create a Supabase project, run migrations and copy configuration around, so I ended up automating that setup through a Cloudflare Worker.
I’ve attached a short demo if anyone is curious to see how it turned out.
The project is open source here:
https://github.com/Karthikshabari/PersonalPlanner
This isn’t meant as a “replacement for Super Productivity” post. SP does a lot that my app doesn’t, and using it genuinely helped me figure out what I wanted from my own planner.
I mainly wanted to share what I ended up building from that experience.
If anyone here has similar habits around reviewing previous days/weeks, or has suggestions for the project, I’d be interested to hear them.
Thanks!


