Finalist Day Planner

Finalist 4.2.3 just went live with even more iPhone Duo yumminess #dailyplanner

finalist.worksFinalist ❤️ iOS 27 / macOS 27Talk to Siri, plan your week on two facing pages, sketch on any note, and put a full page widget on your Home Screen.

14 Sept

Finalist, a paper-inspired daily planner, comes to iOS 27 and macOS 27: lots new with Siri AI, powered up Tags, Pencil support, full page widgets, and tons more www.finalist.works/4-1/

30 Aug

Getting ready for iOS 27, voting is on in our Discord (thanks @matthewskiles.com 👏)

22 Aug

Another beta just landed: Time-keeping Tags, iOS 27 full page widget

17 Aug

The US app store right now 🤩

15 Aug

In today's Installer, David Pierce on Finalist 4: "This app has slowly but surely turned into one of the most robust and clever planner / to-do apps out there." 🤩

13 Aug

Finalist 4.0.1 is now live with a few fixes, and Finalist 4.1 Beta has already started for those of you with iOS 27 😉

finalist.worksSay Hello to Finalist 4Four months, 40 builds, and 1,000 beta testers later: Finalist 4 is out, with Notes, an Apple Watch app, and lots more.

11 Aug

Today's the day: four months, 40 builds, and 1,000 beta testers later, Finalist 4 is out with Notes (compatible with Obsidian Vaults), an Apple Watch app and tons more. www.finalist.works/4-0/

3 Aug

6 June

#wwdc migration

2 June

The latest beta 618 is now bringing some fun UI to all the new features (like the swimlane timelines for markdown tasks)

2 June

And simple way to peek at your bookmarked calendars

21 May

A quick demo of tasks from markdown files inside Finalist Beta #obsidian

finalist.worksMarkdown, With a Calendar AttachedOn bringing native Calendar, Reminders, and on-device AI to your markdown vault

21 May

Full write up at www.finalist.works/markdown-wit...

Finalist 3.8 beta just started, with a new very-demanded tab: Notes. It's something I've been working on for a while, as I wanted to blend native notes with Obsidian-style markdown files. Simplest way to try it out: hold the big PLUS on Daily and start talking. Your dictated note appears.

Global search and the Tags section in the Notes tab pull from native notes and file notes in the same space. Tags from your markdown files show up next to native ones. Create Note and Append to Note are Shortcuts actions, hands-free capture from anywhere on your devices.

finalist.worksBetaTestFlight Beta for Finalist is open. It includes many iOS 26 specific features, including Foundation Models (i.e. iPhone AI LLMs for iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16), new Liquid Glass UI, and more. This beta has three native apps for iOS, macOS and visionOS. Let me know what you

Notes is the biggest swing in 3.x and I'm calling it a collaborative experiment. If you've been waiting for this, the beta is open. TestFlight: finalist.works/beta I'd love to hear what you think.

Any markdown tasks inside a file note show up as real tasks in Finalist. Check them off in either place. They support dates and tags using the Obsidian-style format: `- [ ] write the thing 📅 2026-04-28 #finalist`

Want every task in a note due on a specific day? Name the file `2026-04-28.md` and Finalist treats those tasks as due that day. Frontmatter is bidirectional. Edit a tag chip or the pin-date in Finalist and the `.md` file updates underneath. Anything Finalist doesn't recognize stays untouched.

Date a note and it joins your day. It shows up on Daily next to your dated tasks and calendar events. Useful for meeting notes, ongoing thoughts, anything tied to a specific day. Want an undated note on Today? Just Pin it. Shows up in Today, tap to open, unpin when you're done.

Now the second flavour. File notes are markdown files, frontmatter and all, that live in a folder you choose. iCloud, Dropbox, an Obsidian vault, anywhere. Edit them in Finalist (iOS or macOS) or in another app. Both stay in sync because there's no copy.

Native notes are super flexible. With a simple markdown editor, they hold their own tasks and even other notes (sub-notes). Tag them, date them, pin them. They sync via CloudKit like everything else. There's also an Inbox. For the "uncategorized" thoughts. Capture first, file later (or never).

9 Mar

Finalist 3.6 launched this week, here's a few of the changes in 52 seconds

17 Feb

Beta 7 adds Calendar Bookmark bar + more

14 Feb

Beta 5 is here with some big updates: Lists tab and Outstanding Tasks got a major overhaul and Subtasks are here (after a lot of convincing). It's still early days for subtasks, please share your feedback and Happy Valentines!

10 Feb

3.6 Beta has just started, journaling with a pulse ❤️

10 Feb

The beta is at finalist.works/beta

29 Jan

Beta 119/319, Jan 13, 2026: A few fixes and improvements: - Calendars and Reminder lists are now grouped by account they belong to; you’ll see the change in hopefully every field that shows calendars and reminder lists - Fixed a bug that sometimes added daily tasks to recently used list

- Tapping on map locations in Daily now presents a menu, with ability to Share the location - Fixes to improve iCloud sync frequency for some users, let me know how you find it - Fixed capitalization on Copy Tasks menu item - Improved task entry toolbar for macOS

- Fixed an intermittent crash on macOS - Fixed “Ignore events” to also match non-titled events if left empty - Changed Cmd+N to create new Task instead of open new window

- Fixed editing journal entries on macOS - Fixed Journal “Copy to clipboard” button on macOS - Fixed new tasks in Lists in Minimal theme getting date assigned - Fixed widget in some configurations not showing Date correctly - Added Location field for calendar events

9 Jan

macOS version just got an update to 3.5.7: ⦾ Improved menu bar window, with reminders, weather, calendar and planner highlights ⦾ Tapping on the menu bar window header opens the app ⦾ Better default window sizing ⦾ Nicer display of sidebar dates ⦾ Improved Add Task sheet

4 Jan

The last of the holiday code drops 🥳

2 Jan

We're getting down to the wire, the last drop tomorrow #planner #2026

1 Jan

HAPPY NEW YEAR 🥳

31 Dec 2025

Reply if you snag one 😉

31 Dec 2025

You're all so quick, watch this space - there might be more 😀

Something special to end this year and start the new one. Follow for more drops in the coming days and tell your friends 🎁

First of the challenges are getting completed, amazing work folks 👏👏👏

That was quick! They're all gone but stick around for a few special drops as we cross over to 2026...