FocalPlanner v1.0.0

A native macOS planner that unifies your Apple Calendar events and Reminders into one focused, keyboard-friendly workspace — organized around your Areas of Focus. Your calendar and reminder data stays in macOS/iCloud.

What's changed

• Release 1.0.0
• Add screenshots, framing script, and README gallery
• Add dev-only Demo Mode with editable seed data
• Show event/reminder inspector as a slide-in Sheet
• Add notify-only update check banner
• Rename Health area of focus to "Health & Fitness"

Full changelog: v0.8.0...v1.0.0

Install

Download the .dmg below (universal — Apple Silicon and Intel), open it, and drag FocalPlanner into Applications.

First launch (one-time Gatekeeper step)

This build is ad-hoc signed but not notarized by Apple, so macOS blocks it the first time. Do one of:

• macOS 14 (Sonoma) and earlier — right-click the app in Applications → Open → Open.
• macOS 15 (Sequoia) — double-click once (it gets blocked), then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
• Terminal (any version) — xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/FocalPlanner.app

After this one-time step the app opens normally. On first run, grant Calendar and Reminders access when prompted.

Requirements

macOS 11 or later · Apple Silicon or Intel.

FocalPlanner v0.8.0

A native macOS planner that unifies your Apple Calendar events and Reminders into one focused, keyboard-friendly workspace — organized around your Areas of Focus. Your calendar and reminder data stays in macOS/iCloud.

What's changed

• Add Time Sector planner with layouts, lane scenery & area review (v0.8.0)

Full changelog: v0.7.0...v0.8.0

Install

Download the .dmg below (universal — Apple Silicon and Intel), open it, and drag FocalPlanner into Applications.

First launch (one-time Gatekeeper step)

This build is ad-hoc signed but not notarized by Apple, so macOS blocks it the first time. Do one of:

• macOS 14 (Sonoma) and earlier — right-click the app in Applications → Open → Open.
• macOS 15 (Sequoia) — double-click once (it gets blocked), then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
• Terminal (any version) — xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/FocalPlanner.app

After this one-time step the app opens normally. On first run, grant Calendar and Reminders access when prompted.

Requirements

macOS 11 or later · Apple Silicon or Intel.

FocalPlanner v0.7.0

A native macOS planner that unifies your Apple Calendar events and Reminders into one focused, keyboard-friendly workspace — organized around your Areas of Focus. Your calendar and reminder data stays in macOS/iCloud.

What's changed

• Menu-bar tray + EventKit reliability fix; add CHANGELOG (v0.7.0)

Full changelog: v0.6.0...v0.7.0

Install

Download the .dmg below (universal — Apple Silicon and Intel), open it, and drag FocalPlanner into Applications.

First launch (one-time Gatekeeper step)

This build is ad-hoc signed but not notarized by Apple, so macOS blocks it the first time. Do one of:

• macOS 14 (Sonoma) and earlier — right-click the app in Applications → Open → Open.
• macOS 15 (Sequoia) — double-click once (it gets blocked), then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
• Terminal (any version) — xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/FocalPlanner.app

After this one-time step the app opens normally. On first run, grant Calendar and Reminders access when prompted.

Requirements

macOS 11 or later · Apple Silicon or Intel.

FocalPlanner v0.6.0

A native macOS planner that unifies your Apple Calendar events and Reminders into one focused, keyboard-friendly workspace — organized around your Areas of Focus. Your calendar and reminder data stays in macOS/iCloud.

What's changed

• Weekly all-day tasks tray, hover cards, Areas-in-Settings (v0.6.0)
• Auto-generate release notes in the release workflow

Full changelog: v0.5.0...v0.6.0

Install

Download the .dmg below (universal — Apple Silicon and Intel), open it, and drag FocalPlanner into Applications.

First launch (one-time Gatekeeper step)

This build is ad-hoc signed but not notarized by Apple, so macOS blocks it the first time. Do one of:

• macOS 14 (Sonoma) and earlier — right-click the app in Applications → Open → Open.
• macOS 15 (Sequoia) — double-click once (it gets blocked), then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
• Terminal (any version) — xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/FocalPlanner.app

After this one-time step the app opens normally. On first run, grant Calendar and Reminders access when prompted.

Requirements

macOS 11 or later · Apple Silicon or Intel.

FocalPlanner v0.5.0

A native macOS planner that unifies your Apple Calendar events and Reminders into one focused, keyboard-friendly workspace — organized around your Areas of Focus. Your data stays in macOS/iCloud; FocalPlanner is just a nicer way to look at and manage it.

Highlights

• Areas of Focus — group calendars and reminder lists into areas (Work, Personal, …), drag to reorder them, and switch areas to filter the whole planner at once.
• Daily & weekly views — a clean time grid with a sidebar mini-calendar, weekend shading, and working-hours highlighting.
• Drag to schedule — drag a reminder from the sidebar onto any time slot, or drag/resize events directly on the grid. Right-click empty space to create an event or reminder there.
• Inspectors with schedule context — click anything to edit it in a side panel that shows a mini-timeline of what else is happening nearby, flagging conflicts and busy windows.
• Rich context menus — reschedule, move between lists/calendars, mark complete, and more — with confirm-before-delete.
• 12 themes & web typefaces — light and dark themes (including a macOS theme), adjustable UI scale, work hours, and week start.
• Optional GitHub sync — sync your settings and areas of focus across Macs via a private gist, with optional end-to-end encryption. Calendar/reminder data is never uploaded.

New in 0.5.0

• Guided feature tour on first launch — replayable anytime from Settings → General → Replay tour.

Install

Download FocalPlanner_0.5.0_universal.dmg below (universal — Apple Silicon and Intel), open it, and drag FocalPlanner into Applications.

First launch (one-time Gatekeeper step)

This build is ad-hoc signed but not notarized by Apple, so macOS blocks it the first time. Do one of:

• macOS 14 (Sonoma) and earlier — right-click the app in Applications → Open → Open.
• macOS 15 (Sequoia) — double-click once (it gets blocked), then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
• Terminal (any version) — xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/FocalPlanner.app

After this one-time step the app opens normally. On first run, grant Calendar and Reminders access when prompted.

Requirements

macOS 11 or later · Apple Silicon or Intel.

FocalPlanner v0.4.0

FocalPlanner v0.4.0

Download the .dmg below, open it, and drag FocalPlanner to Applications.

First launch (one-time Gatekeeper step)

This build is ad-hoc signed but not notarized by Apple, so macOS blocks it the first time. Do one of:

• macOS 14 and earlier: right-click the app in Applications → Open → Open.
• macOS 15 (Sequoia): double-click once (it will be blocked), then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
• Terminal (any version): xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/FocalPlanner.app

After this one-time step the app opens normally. On first run, grant Calendar and Reminders access when prompted.