Today as default
Week view on swipe. No backlog wall.
Daily focus
A Daily Focus App That Treats Today Like It's the Only Day
Most planners drown you in everything you haven't done yet. Lunelo asks one question every morning: what matters today?
The problem
The backlog is the enemy of focus. The moment a planner shows you everything outstanding — every task you queued in the last six months, every project still open, every "someday/maybe" you saved in a moment of optimism — your brain stops working and starts triaging. You read the list, sort it, re-sort it, deliberate about which item deserves the morning. By the time you've decided which task to start, the morning is already half over and the energy you came in with has been spent on planning the work instead of doing it.
The conventional solution to this is "star your top three" — except now you have to navigate to a backlog, scroll through the accumulated list, deliberate again, and star. The triage problem hasn't been removed; it's been moved one level down and given a different name. The planner still demands a decision every morning that the planner itself created.
How Lunelo solves it
Lunelo inverts the model. The default screen is today, populated only with the tasks dated today. Yesterday's unfinished work rolled forward overnight without ceremony — no notification, no end-of-day summary, no "you missed three tasks" banner. New tasks added by voice go to today by default unless you specifically said a future date in your sentence. The morning starts with today already populated; the deliberation step has been removed.
There is no "all tasks" screen surfaced in the bottom navigation. The full backlog exists in history, fully searchable, but you have to go look for it on purpose. The product's bet is that ninety percent of the time you don't actually need to look — what's not on today probably shouldn't be, and what should be on today is already there. The backlog being hidden isn't a missing feature; it's a deliberate reduction of the surface area where triage happens.
Weekly AI insights (Premium) review your patterns quietly — when you tend to complete things, which categories of task show up most, where your focus drifts as the week progresses. They arrive on Sunday as a short letter rather than as a daily nudge, and they're framed around observation rather than scoring. "You completed more on Tuesdays" is the kind of statement they make; "you failed twelve tasks this month" is the kind they refuse to make.
Features built around this
Silent roll-forward
No 'you missed 4 tasks yesterday' message.
Voice capture goes to today
Unless you specify otherwise.
AI prioritization
Say 'this is urgent' or 'when I have a free hour.'
Weekly insights (Premium)
Patterns and focus zones, no scores.
Compared to other tools
Sunsama is the most established "daily focus" planner — same philosophy, opposite shape entirely. Sunsama is web-first, calendar-native, $20/month, with no voice input and no native AI parsing in v1. Lunelo is mobile-first, calendar-free in v1, voice-first as the headline input mode, with AI parsing as the feature that makes the whole capture flow actually work in practice. Both apps agree that the daily focus model beats the backlog-management model; they just disagree on which surface and which input method the user lives in.
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Frequently asked
What if I want to plan tomorrow tonight?
Speak tasks with a "tomorrow" date — "tomorrow morning, write the cover letter." They appear in week view but not on today until tomorrow.
Can I see my unfinished tasks from last week?
Yes, in history. The default view doesn't show them because the goal is focus on today, not accumulating guilt over last week.
How does AI prioritize my tasks?
It uses verbal cues you give it ("urgent," "when I have time," "if I get to it"). It doesn't try to rank tasks you didn't comment on — that's your job.
Does Lunelo block distracting apps or websites?
No. Lunelo is a planner, not a focus blocker. Use Focus modes (iOS) or Freedom for that.