Plan your day with an AI assistant that turns your to-do list into a schedule. ByDesign brings your tasks, daily planner, calendar, and notes together — synced across all your devices.
AI assistant
- Just type or say what you need: "Clear my Friday", "When am I free tomorrow?", "Add gym every Mon, Wed and Fri at 7am".
- Create, reschedule, and complete tasks and events, including repeating ones and many at once.
- Find free time, push work forward, lock items in place, and undo any change.
- Add subtasks, notes, and details, answer invitations, and manage pages right from chat.
Calendar
- Connect as many calendars as you want - personal, work or school.
- Manage and time box the tasks from ByDesign in the same calendar.
- Use colors to organize your calendar.
- Create all-day events and tasks and drag them to a specific time to plan efficiently.
Powerful note-taking
- Add attachments - PDFs, photos, audio, web links, and more.
- Create checklists. Make a grocery list, a wish list, or a to-do list, then tap to check off items as you go.
- Apply different text styles, such as heading or body, bulleted lists, and more.
- Add tables to quickly organize information.
Organize and search
- Search for text in notes, your tasks, and tables.
- Link from one page to another to connect ideas, content, or any information. Try typing "/" for a shortcut to add links and pages while writing in your pages.
- Keep your notes in pages and folders, and sort them in the order you prefer.
- Use drag and drop as a fast and flexible way to categorize and organize your pages.
Collaborate
- Collaborate on entire pages or sub pages.
- Mention friends to notify them of important updates.
- Select and add comments on a particular text and have a full conversation in the thread.
- Use page comments to discuss anything related to that page.
- See what others updated in a shared page while you were away with alerts.
Download ByDesign and plan your first day in 2 minutes.
I have tried what feels like everything to try to organize my calendar, my to-do list, my goals, but nothing has worked as as well as by Design. Digital planners limit your view to one thing at a time, and few will bring in multiple calendars at once including shared calendars. With ByDesign I have all the pieces of my work and personal life available as well as compartmentalized. I love the dashboard where I can see everything, all the pieces at once if I want to. I love how easy it is to turn my goals into actionable items on a specific day. I just love everything about this program. With it available on my PC, Mac, and smart phone, I can add, update, and check things anywhere, anytime. I know this review sounds kind of like an ad, but I’m just a user and I really love it.
A Truly Inspiring Work in Progress
WordUserFromWayBack
ByDesign appears to be on fire … in a good way! I’ve been on a decades-long trek through various “do it all” efforts at combining a task manager, a planner, a calendar, and a smart notebook that’s all readily accessed from the Mac, the iPad and the iPhone. Bonus prize: log on from the web anywhere. It is ticking all the boxes, and doing so with a beautiful and compelling UI. If you’re looking for the power of best-of-class apps like Fantastical, Craft, Things, Evernote and more in one lovely package, check out ByDesign. They’re adding features like crazy, and polishing them along the way. I’m still waiting for a clear path to import and export from some of those one trick apps, but they’re building the bridge I’m planning to walk across. Go ByDesign! I’m rooting for you!
Developer Response
This was one of the kindest reviews we've received! Thank you so much!
The Ultimate Productivity Companion
Petey McFly
ByDesign is, without a doubt, the most versatile and well-designed productivity app I’ve used. It seamlessly integrates a calendar, to-do lists, and project management into one intuitive platform, eliminating the need for multiple apps.The functionality is top-tier—everything works smoothly, and the interface is both clean and efficient. The calendar syncs perfectly, keeping my schedule organized, while the to-do list feature ensures I never miss a task. The project management tools make collaboration and tracking progress incredibly simple.ByDesign truly feels like the app that can do it all. If you’re looking for an all-in-one productivity solution, this is it. Highly recommend!
Developer Response
Wow, this truly made our day! Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. It’s amazing to hear how ByDesign is helping you stay organized and productive. We really appreciate you!
Finally My Life has Direction
Tom - Costa Rica
After going through every project manager you can imagine I think the biggest mistake is programmers have never took into consideration that life, goals, and learning new things will ultimately allow you to have the energy and motivation to attack the work side of life. If you have ADD (perfect app) or not (perfect app) this is a one and only in the market at an unbeatable price for all you get. It might not be one of the big names now but they have a different vision and as the younger generations start to value work-life balance you are going to understand why these guys are ahead of their time so you can crush it in work and life at the same time!
Developer Response
Thank you, Tom! This was such a lovely review - you made our day! We've been so grateful for all your feedback and are thrilled your team is on ByDesign too. We look forward to speaking with you again soon!
Performance improvements and bug fixes to keep ByDesign running smoothly. Thanks for planning your days with us!
Version 6.2.3
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