it decides, you don't
No dragging, sorting, tagging, or priority levels. A list of fourteen flat items is a decision problem, not a memory problem — and handing you better tools to sort it is handing the problem back in a nicer wrapper.
Sayshort
A day planner for executive dysfunction
One unstructured sentence in. One thing to do now, out.
- No sign-up
- Plans offline
- No red, anywhere
The whole loop
A real day, from one sentence
Real scheduler output for that sentence at 12:40 on a Wednesday — not a drawing of a nicer app.
01 / sixone screen, one decision
The home screen holds the next thing and nothing else. Always exactly one answer on it.
02 / sixsay it however it comes out
One breath, wrong order, no punctuation: "ok so I've got a seminar at two, the problem set is due tomorrow, gym, and mum's birthday dinner is saturday." Typing does everything speaking does.
03 / sixthe model reads it, and stops
A title, a rough duration, a deadline only if you named one. No clock arithmetic happens here.
04 / sixthen it tells you the truth
Room for about three hours, and you asked for four. It says so before the day starts, and names the one thing it would move.
05 / sixyou refuse it, the day reseals
Tap "Not this" and the invoice takes the twenty minutes before your seminar instead. Nothing turned red. No request left the phone.
06 / sixback to one thing
You never chose an order, a duration, or a time. Nothing here is waiting for you to organise it.
The thesis
A list is not a plan
Fourteen flat items with three overdue is a decision problem, not a memory problem. Most planners hand that decision back to you, neatly formatted. This one makes it.
Knowing what you have to do was never the hard part. Starting is.
So — what should you do right now?
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- 1question answered
- 3tabs, no navigator
- 7settings, hard cap
- 569assertions
- 0sign-ups, ads, or red
Facts about the product, not about its popularity. It has not shipped, so there is nothing else honest to count.
Before you ask
Questions
Is it free?
There's a two-week trial with everything unlocked, a reminder on day twelve so the end can't surprise you, and a subscription after that.
The price isn't set, so there is no number here for us to be wrong about later. Nobody on the waitlist gets asked for card details before the app exists.
How is this different from my calendar, or Reminders?
Both of those store decisions you already made. You pick the time, you pick the order, you decide what to drop when the day runs short — and the app files it neatly. That's useful, and it is not the same job.
Sayshort makes those decisions. It reads your calendar so it can plan around what you've already committed to, and then it works out the order, roughly how long each thing takes, and whether the day can hold it. Calendar access is read-only: it never creates, edits, or deletes an event.
Does my data leave my phone?
The sentence you capture does. It's sent to a language model to be turned into tasks and times, and if you speak rather than type, the audio is sent to be transcribed first and is not stored. That's the one thing that travels.
Your tasks, appointments, settings, and history stay in the app's own storage on the device. Scheduling happens on the phone, so replans need no network at all. There is no sign-up wall, no advertising, and no third-party analytics SDK — product events are recorded with no name, email, device identifier, or advertising ID attached.
We're not going to claim end-to-end encryption or a compliance badge we can't back. The exact detail, permission by permission, is on the privacy page.
Who is this actually for?
People for whom a list of things they already know they have to do is a decision problem rather than a memory problem — a lot of students, a lot of people with ADHD, a lot of people carrying more than one life at once.
University students first, because a term is the cruellest possible test: everything is due at once, nothing has a fixed time, and the consequences arrive three weeks late.
Can I overrule it?
Yes, in the day editor. Drag there and your order wins outright — the engine will not re-sort underneath you. And a duration you stated is never silently rewritten. Deciding for you is the default, not a rule.
Why did it say no when there's still time on the clock?
Because it holds back about a fifth of your remaining day. "Room for about three hours" means three hours of work in a day with four hours of clock left — the difference absorbs a phone call, a queue, a task that ran long. A plan with no slack breaks by ten in the morning.
When does it ship?
There's no date, and inventing one would be the first broken promise. It is an early build being tested on real days, and the remaining work is App Store review rather than the app.
One email, when it's live. That is the whole plan for your address.