The fastest way
to get it out of
your head.

A capture-and-plan overlay for macOS. Press ⌘K anywhere, write what you need to do the way you would say it, press Return. It lives in the menu bar and is invisible the rest of the time.

A to-do app is a place you go. Diurnal is a key you press, and it puts work on a day rather than on a pile. There is no project tree, no board and no inbox to process on Sunday evening, because none of that survives contact with a normal week.

Yes. You sign in first, with Google or with an email address and password, because your day is synced so it exists on every Mac you use rather than on one disk. Signing in gives Diurnal no access to your calendar: that is a separate decision you make later, or never.

Yes, once you are signed in. Your day is kept on your own Mac, so Diurnal shows it whether or not you have a connection. Anything you change while offline is saved and catches up the moment you are back.

Connecting Google Calendar is optional and separate from signing in. Diurnal asks for the narrowest scopes that work: list the calendars on your account, and read or add events. It never asks for the scope that can delete calendars. Data and permissions has the full breakdown.

Signing out empties the Mac. It finishes saving anything still waiting, then removes your tasks, your saved login, any reminders it had set and any calendar events it was holding.

A Mac running a current macOS. Diurnal is a real Mac app rather than a web page in a window, which is why it is already on screen by the time you lift your fingers.

Because you are probably already running Diurnal. macOS gives that shortcut to the app itself, ahead of everything else, so your browser never sees it. Use ⌃⌘K on this page instead, or click the hint.

It is a faithful replica, and every task in it is invented. It reads no calendar of yours, saves nothing, and forgets all of it when you close the tab.