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Zympl
A calm daily planner for people who keep going back to paper
Zympl is a calm daily planner — tasks, time tracking, habits, goals, and a daily journal in one quiet place. Built by a paper-notebook person who abandoned every other app. Runs in your browser today; iOS & Android are coming. Free forever if you join now.
For most of my life my productivity "system" was a paper notebook for tasks, journaling, plans, everything. I tried going digital more times than I can count (Todoist, Toggl, Notion, Obsidian, Asana, a dozen habit/task apps…) and abandoned all of them. They were either not enough or far too much. Every time, I quietly drifted back to paper.
I'd even tried building my own a few times over the years and failed. Building was just too slow to keep up with what I actually wanted. Prototyping with AI finally made it fast enough to experiment: build something, live with it for a week, throw it away if it didn't fit. Zympl is what survived.
It's a calm daily planner with tasks, time tracking, habits, goals, and a daily journal in one quiet place.
A few honest things:
It's early and unfinished. There are rough edges and it'll change under you. That's on purpose.
It's completely free: and free forever if you join now. No trial, no card, no locked features. I don't want revenue right now, I want feedback.
It runs in the browser today. iOS & Android are on the way.
I'm really launching to answer one question: am I the only one who kept going back to paper because every app was too much? If you're a paper person too, I'd love for you to try it for one real day and then tell me exactly what's missing, broken, or annoying, that feedback decides what I build next.
the fact that everything lives in one quiet view without a sidebar full of nudges feels like the app respects my attention. nice work from someone who actually used paper before coding this.
When you say time tracking lives inside the same flow as tasks, are hours logged automatically as I complete items or do I have to start and stop a timer manually each time?
How does the time tracking piece actually work alongside the tasks, like do you switch views a lot or is it all mashed together on one page?
Love how the browser-first approach actually works here, no app download wall to push through. The "built by a paper-notebook person" detail tells me everything about why the interface feels so uncluttered.
love that you resisted the urge to bolt on social features or streaks. the browser-first approach with native apps coming later is a smart move too, lets the core experience settle before getting fancy.
About Zympl on Product Hunt
“A calm daily planner for people who keep going back to paper”
Zympl was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 7 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #38 on the daily leaderboard. Zympl is a calm daily planner — tasks, time tracking, habits, goals, and a daily journal in one quiet place. Built by a paper-notebook person who abandoned every other app. Runs in your browser today; iOS & Android are coming. Free forever if you join now.
Zympl was featured in Productivity (655.7k followers), Task Management (84.1k followers) and Time Tracking (11.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 157.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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Zympl was hunted by Ajay Sivan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Ajay Sivan
Hey Product Hunt 👋 Ajay here.
For most of my life my productivity "system" was a paper notebook for tasks, journaling, plans, everything. I tried going digital more times than I can count (Todoist, Toggl, Notion, Obsidian, Asana, a dozen habit/task apps…) and abandoned all of them. They were either not enough or far too much. Every time, I quietly drifted back to paper.
I'd even tried building my own a few times over the years and failed. Building was just too slow to keep up with what I actually wanted. Prototyping with AI finally made it fast enough to experiment: build something, live with it for a week, throw it away if it didn't fit. Zympl is what survived.
It's a calm daily planner with tasks, time tracking, habits, goals, and a daily journal in one quiet place.
A few honest things:
It's early and unfinished. There are rough edges and it'll change under you. That's on purpose.
It's completely free: and free forever if you join now. No trial, no card, no locked features. I don't want revenue right now, I want feedback.
It runs in the browser today. iOS & Android are on the way.
I'm really launching to answer one question: am I the only one who kept going back to paper because every app was too much? If you're a paper person too, I'd love for you to try it for one real day and then tell me exactly what's missing, broken, or annoying, that feedback decides what I build next.
Try it here: https://zympl.app
I'll be here all day answering everything. Be brutal 🙏