Kioday asks one question every morning: what actually deserves today? You choose a handful of tasks — urgent, important, and the ones that can wait — instead of maintaining an endless list of priorities.
Start from yesterday's unfinished tasks and your backlog. Pull in only what earns a place today.
Sort them into Urgent, Important and Buffer. Drag a task between categories; the limits push back when a category is full.
For the rest of the day Kioday is just a list of what you already decided. It never asks you to add more.
Urgent and Important have small limits. When a category is full, Kioday will not quietly make room — you drag something out, or it waits. The friction is the feature.
Limits are configurable. Having limits is not.
Unfinished tasks are never silently pushed forward. When you plan a new day you pick, one by one, which of them still deserve a place — and Kioday shows how many days each has been travelling.
A task carried for three days is not a failure. It is information: either it matters and it goes first today, or it belongs in the backlog.
Five well-known ideas about attention and priority. Each one turned into a concrete decision in the app — or into something the app deliberately refuses to do.
Not everything deserves equal priority. A real choice means deciding, out loud, what you are not going to do.
Urgent and Important are capped. To add an eleventh task you have to remove one — the app never lets you avoid the choice.
Pick a Highlight: one thing that, if it happens, makes the day worth it.
One Important task can be marked as the main task of the day. Only one — starring a second one moves the star.
Get commitments out of your head and into a place you trust, so remembering stops being work.
The Backlog. Capture anything in two taps without forcing it into today's plan — today stays as you made it.
Attention is finite. Work that matters needs protection from the reactive kind.
Once the day is planned, the app goes quiet. No streaks, no suggestions, no nudge to add one more thing.
Urgent means it demands attention now. Important means it changes something later. Most days confuse the two.
They are separate categories with separate limits, so a day full of urgent noise is visibly a day with no important work in it.
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Every one of these was considered and rejected. A planner that does everything is just another thing to maintain.
Not as a privacy stance — as a design consequence. A planner for one person's day does not need a server, so Kioday does not have one.
No account. Open the app and plan; there is nothing to sign up for.
No cloud database. Your days live in local storage on the phone.
Works offline. Planes, tunnels and dead zones are fine.
Everything that is real but not today, with the age of each item shown plainly.
A quiet count, not a score. From here you close the day or prepare tomorrow.
One short screen: your limits, a default reminder, dark or light. That is all of it.
Download Kioday and decide what actually matters. It takes about three minutes a day.