Daybook is a small, open-source take on Sunsama’s daily rituals. It hangs your plan beside one of 44 public-domain paintings, runs in a browser or as a Mac app, and works with AI agents through a built-in MCP server.
The challenge
Planning tools tend to grow until planning becomes the work. Daybook keeps one focus line and a short list of timed tasks, measured against a 6-hour default capacity, so the day stays realistic.
What I built
- Today: one focus line and timed tasks against capacity, with unfinished work rolling over.
- Plan the day: meetings, the day being built and backlog or Linear tasks in one window.
- Week: one card with a column per day that turns amber when a day is over capacity.
- Shut down: review what got done, decide where unfinished work goes and write one journal line.
- A built-in MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex and more.
- A self-updating Mac app, plus one-click deploys on the Vercel and Upstash free plans.
Key decisions
“Let the agents do the typing.”
Daybook gives AI agents a token and exact setup steps, so tasks can be planned from Claude or Codex while the person keeps the ritual. Days stay private in the browser until a cloud Daybook is deployed.
Where it is now
Open source on GitHub, with a Mac download and a site at daybooksalon.vercel.app. It shares its look and paintings with Frame Dashboard, a Samsung Frame TV app.
