SMF·SUNSAMA
Can a prompt replace Sunsama?
Tasks & to-dos — daily planner
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Verdict
A solo daily-planning dashboard — a read-only calendar overlay next to a task list, drag tasks into today, an end-of-day shutdown ritual — is a real weekend build. What doesn't come with it is Sunsama's actual breadth: integrations with a wide range of task tools, two-way calendar sync, and years of habit-forming interaction design.
Exhibit A — The prompt
Received on30.07.2026Build a solo daily planner: a Today view showing your calendar as a read-only timeline, pulled through its API, next to today's task list. Tasks have a title, a time estimate, a project tag, and a done flag; a quick-add box and a backlog panel let you drag unplanned tasks into today. Show planned minutes against a configurable daily budget, turning visibly red when you overplan. Build an end-of-day shutdown flow: step through each unfinished task with a single action to roll it to tomorrow, send it to the backlog, or drop it, then show a plain planned-versus-actual summary. Keep a day-by-day history so a weekly view can show the last week's planned-versus-done trend.
Do not build integrations with other task tools, two-way calendar writes, or mobile apps — the calendar here is read-only truth, never written to, and that's the honest, complete scope for a personal planning tool.Opening prefills the prompt — press enter to run it.
Exhibit B — What you lose
- B.1 integrations with a wide range of external task tools
- B.2 two-way calendar sync
- B.3 years of careful daily-ritual UX design
- B.4 mobile apps
- B.5 planning analytics
Prior art
Exhibit C — Why people still pay: integrations/workflow design
People pay for a planning habit that survives across every tool they use, not for a new to-do list — the integration breadth and ritual design are the actual product.
Questions
Can I import my existing Sunsama history?
Not automatically — Sunsama doesn't offer a structured export of your planning history. Starting fresh from today is the realistic option rather than porting past days over.
Will it work on my phone?
As a responsive web page, yes, for a quick check, but the drag-and-drop planning workflow is genuinely built for a larger screen — there's no dedicated mobile app.
What does it cost to run?
Hosting, typically a few dollars a month — the calendar API itself is free at personal usage volumes.
What's the one thing that doesn't survive the rebuild?
Integration breadth. Sunsama pulls tasks in from a wide range of other tools so you plan from one place; this build only shows your calendar and its own task list, and anything else you use stays a separate tab.
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