Guilt-free Daily Planner

Notion:

Notion is great if you enjoy building systems – but it takes hours or even days to set up a workflow that actually works. Emery is for people who don’t want to turn productivity into a hobby. You just open it and start planning – no templates, formulas, or databases to maintain.

Todoist:

Todoist is great at storing tasks. But the longer you use it, the heavier it gets – overdue turns red and piles up. Emery starts clean every morning instead.

Google Calendar:

Google Calendar is great for meetings, but it’s too basic for real task planning. Many of our users still use Google Calendar for team events, but connect it to Emery to manage personal productivity and deep work.

Closest alternative:

The experience is most similar to a good paper planner – but without the hassle of carrying it around or rewriting tasks every day.

If your current setup works well for you, there’s no need to change it.

Emery is built around one idea: a clean page every morning, so your mornings never start with a wall of overdue tasks. Miss a day or a week and you still come back to today – no streaks to break, no backlog growing in the background.

If that’s the thing your current setup doesn’t do, Emery is worth a look.

Not really. Emery is designed to be useful from day one.

You simply sort your tasks into three groups – Fires, Growth, and Extras – then connect your calendars. From there, you’ll start seeing clear priorities right away.

As you use it, you’ll naturally discover more features – like private notes for events, projects, and overdues – but those are just a bonus, not a requirement.

It might sound like that, but it’s usually the opposite.

In our experience, spending just 5 minutes in the morning sorting your day changes how the rest of it goes. As ambitious people, our progress doesn’t depend on how many hours we work, but on what we choose to focus on.

Sometimes a single 30-minute task or conversation can save days of effort later. Planning works the same way: investing a few minutes to decide what truly matters can easily change the outcome of your whole week.

And once you get used to it, planning becomes second nature. Many users say they can’t imagine starting their day without it.

Absolutely. Emery supports two-way synchronization with both Google Calendar and Outlook. You can connect multiple accounts and see all your events in one place.

On top of that, it adds features your regular calendar doesn’t have – like priorities (Fires, Growth, Extras) and private notes to help you prepare for upcoming meetings.

You can still use Google or Outlook separately for managing team activities. Emery simply gives you a personal layer of clarity and focus on top of them.

No – Emery is designed for personal productivity, not team planning.

It’s a single-user tool built to help leaders organize their own priorities, time, and focus. You can still use your existing team tools for collaboration, while using Emery to stay clear on what matters most to you each day.

Yes. Emery is built for people whose days are rarely predictable. Dealing with unexpected things is normal when you have a lot going on.

There’s no endless task list that keeps growing – each day starts fresh, so you can focus on what matters right now. And when new urgent tasks appear, you can put them into the Fires section to stay in control, even on your busiest days.

Every morning, you sort your work into three buckets:

• Fires – “I’ll have problems if I leave this undone.”
• Growth – “This is the work that moves my goals forward over time.”
• Extras – “Helpful but not critical – do these last, or not at all.”

The same structure applies to meetings and calls – Emery highlights which ones actually lead to results.

With this clear overview, staying focused on what truly matters becomes natural.

Yes. Emery is available on the web, iOS, and Android.

Desktop apps are also coming soon.

It’s completely fine to take a break from time to time – Emery is built to handle that.

Unlike typical to-do apps with endless backlogs, you won’t come back to a wall of overdue tasks. All unfinished items are set aside, so you can review and sort them later when you’re ready.

Whether you skip a day or a week, you’ll still start fresh and plan your day the way you want.

Your data is stored securely on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and follows all standard security best practices.

It’s encrypted in transit and never shared with any third party.

We take privacy seriously – your information stays yours, always.

We aren’t either. We’re busy professionals who want to make an impact at work – not turn productivity into a hobby.

That’s why we kept things simple. Emery is built around how real days actually look: tasks, meetings, interruptions, and personal goals. No complex systems, no endless templates to set up.

It’s not for people who want to spend hours tweaking their setup.
It’s for people who want to be effective, finish what matters, and make steady progress.

Emery was built by people working in demanding roles – the same kind of professionals who use it every day. It’s the result of years of real-world experience trying to stay focused and productive when there’s always a lot going on.

It wasn’t created by productivity coaches or influencers. It was built by practitioners:

• Den, co-founder, spent over a decade in leadership roles at fast-growing companies, including Bumble and Speechify.
• Alex, co-founder, is a lead designer at a company that builds and launches new startups for a living.

They built Emery first for themselves – and now for anyone who wants to be more intentional with their time and impact.

They use it every day, answer every support email personally, and have been building it for years – it’s not going anywhere.