Designing an offline‑first planner that repairs your day instead of shaming you

Description and use

Tiny Day is an offline‑first Android planner that repairs your day with gentle guidance, avoiding guilt‑inducing metrics and cloud dependencies.

Problem

Most planners demand accounts, cloud sync, and guilt‑inducing metrics, adding friction and stress rather than reducing it.

Outcome

Tiny Day delivers a deterministic, offline‑first daily planner that repairs the day with gentle guidance, eliminating guilt‑inducing metrics and cloud dependencies.

Workflow

• Brain‑dump the day in plain language in the morning
• Parse text into task cards (name, category, duration, priority, time hints) using lib/parse.ts
• Schedule tasks into a timeline with lib/schedule.ts, preserving meals and free time
• Receive local notifications with privacy mode and quiet hours
• If the day goes wrong, tap the change and run the repair engine (lib/repair.ts) to adjust optional tasks and free time
• Review the evening summary, triage leftovers, and decide on next‑day actions
• Repeat daily without cloud sync or account creation

Evidence

Tiny Day is a fully offline React Native app: no account, no cloud, no analytics, and no vibration.

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