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Pocket Planner for Panic Playdate
A downloadable app
Buy Now$5.00 USD or more
Let's face the truth - you carry your Playdate everywhere, so why not use it as a productivity tool?
Features
- ToDos - note things to do in your inbox or move them to separate lists. Lists and entries can be edited or removed at any time.
- Calendar - check the date and add events on the full-screen month view.
- Voice Memo - record max 2-minute long voice memos and label them with a title.
- World Clock - check the time in 140+ cities around the world.
- Contacts - save contact data on a rotary business card holder.
Controls
Each feature follows slightly different controls, but they are intuitive and, by default, visible on the screen as hints.
- Press A to select or confirm.
- Hold A for secondary options like edit or remove.
- Press B to go back or cancel.
- Use a d-pad to highlight items.
- Crank for scroll or seek.
Oh, and if you prefer a clutter-free screen, hide the control hints from the settings.
Ideas and feedback
Submit ideas and feedback as comments on itch.io or email them to me using hello[at]kamil.id
Changelog
See what's new in the changelog entry.
| Status | Released |
| Category | Tool |
| Rating | |
| Author | Hydra Softworks |
| Made with | Aseprite, Playdate |
| Tags | calendar, contacts, notes, Playdate, todos, world-clock |
| Average session | A few minutes |
| Languages | English |
Purchase
Buy Now$5.00 USD or more
In order to download this app you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $5 USD. You will get access to the following files:
PocketPlanner-4.3.pdx.zip 1.2 MB
PocketPlanner-3.4.pdx.zip 446 kB
PocketPlanner-2.4.pdx.zip 398 kB
Pocket Planner-1.4.pdx.zip 375 kB
Development log
- Release v4.0Feb 04, 2024
- Release v3.0Apr 08, 2023
- Release v2.0Jun 12, 2022
- ChangelogMay 21, 2022
- Release v1.0May 14, 2022
- Beta release v0.17May 08, 2022
Comments
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Is there aaannnyy way for you to add an option to create a custom url in the contacts list QR code? I really would't mind typing in a custom shortcuts URL into each contact in the rolodex for less friction to pull them up on the phone.
I love this planner!
In particular, it’s great to have access to the raw data through JSON files, which allows for syncing a bit with other tools. However, it would be super cool if there were a way to automatically fetch the JSON from a web server—something simple, like retrieving each file when the corresponding window is opened. With just a bit of external scripting, this would make the program fully remote. Any chance a feature like this could be added?
Hi there love the little app, just wanted to comment on the to do list. I'm currently writing a list and while scrolling throught the letters the application keep getting small 1-2 second freeze hicups. A little annoying to say the least, i would had like for the process of writing my list to be smooth.
Hi, I tried to replicate this, but I couldn’t. Can you share more details? For example - do you have a long list of ToDos? Does it happen every time or only in specific conditions (for example, only when adding a new one or editing an item)?
i have a long list, i think it started happening after i added like 15 plus items on a list, it's a list with about 50 items. So it gives me freeze hiccups when i scroll down that particular lisr and also when i am adding a new item and typing out the letters, freeze hiccups happen often. Probably it just me for making a rediculously long list on this little playdate app, :D
Hi, I think I have the same problem, but I don't have long lists. It happens no matter how much stuff I have written. When trying to use the keyboard, it sometimes freezes for a sec and then unfreezes, but the keyboard skips many letters, making it really hard to input text. If you cant reproduce it at all, you can contact me and I can share my save data/take a video/attach a debugger or something.
@pavelmarceluch @ikaramashu Can you share
Data/com.hydrasoftworks.pocketplanner/todos/data.jsonorData/user.ABC.pocketplanner/todos/data.jsonfile with me? You can edit it in a programming text editor (like VSCode, Notepad++, Sublime, or similar) to remove private data. Please send it to hello@kamil.id I added a few 50+ elements checklists and encountered a 1-second freeze only once, so I have a problem debugging this. I’m starting to think that this may not be related to the length of to-do lists but to some texts in them.@pavelmarceluch @ikaramashu Once again, thanks for your cooperation. Version 4.3 removes that issue (hopefully, I didn’t add new ones 🤞). It’s already available on Itch and has been sent to Panic for a Catalog update.
Love the app, any way to easily import contacts? Like a way to convert vcards from apple contacts to the json file?
Hi there,
Love the app. But can you make so that playdate doesn't lock itself? I know bloom has something known as chill mode which doesn't let playdate go to autolock. I want to keep the to do's always up on the screen.
Thanks!
Hi, thank you for the suggestion. I checked the documentation and found a function for that: https://sdk.play.date/2.5.0/Inside%20Playdate.html#f-setAutoLockDisabled. I have some time off from work in mid-October, so I’ll introduce it as an additional option in the Menu/Settings.
Perfect, already looking forward to it!
Hey, quick update. This was added in 4.2. In a few days, it should also appear in the Catalog.
Cool!
Hey there is a bug that the assistant box didn't fade away like in the Calander when there is content display beneth it.
You are right. Thanks for reporting it. I’ll take care of that.
Hey, quick update. This is fixed in 4.2. In a few days, it should also appear in the Catalog.
This might me a stretch buuutt, some of the text information that I've input is too long for the text box and I was wondering if it would be possible to have the text scroll when hovered over?
Hi! I just bought this as first thing on my playdate. Now i can leave my phone at home and just walk with my apple watch + playdate, but still have a calendar and all with me in a small size. :)
Is the version on catalogue always the newest? Or is it possible to get the pdx file here too if i proof to you that i bought it?
Thx for your work!
Hi, First of all, thank you for the comment. You don’t have to worry about having a recent version. When I update, I always update it here and on Catalog (due to the review process, on Catalog, it is usually published a day later).
Everything looks polished here, but is it possible to have items pop up on the sleep screen like a recent To-Do prompt or showing what date it is?
Hey, thank you for your comment. Playdate SDK doesn’t offer such options. When the app is off-screen (or even if the menu button is pressed), it is put to sleep (for energy efficiency).
Love it! There’s something so appealing about software and apps that feel like they were made for like, the Nintendo DS in terms of charm and feel.
Are there any plans on making it so birthdays added to contacts show up in the calendar?
Thank you for a nice comment. Maybe not DS, but 3DS is one of the consoles I play the most.
Birthdays in calendar sounds like a good idea but it will be also hard to implement. It needs a change in how dates are entered (potentially some date picker component). But I’ll add it to the ideas list.
Love the planner. Really enjoying it reminds me of having a pocket organiser when I was younger
Couple of suggestions.
1. A confirmation on the delete action in contacts
2. A line break function so I can format addresses nicely in contacts or a dedicated address field
3. Date of birth in contacts
4. Just a notes section in general
Hey, Thanks for suggestions. I’ll check what I can do.
Thank you for your quick response.
I was a bit trigger happy (maybe crank happy) and hit delete by accident, was shooting as I sent ages formatting my first contact! 🤣
maybe for the future but if you could link a date of birth entry to the calendar that would be amazing!
For the notes section I meant more like the list section. So you could either select new note or new list.
Really enjoying adding entries to it as it is though! Been using it for shopping lists.
Hey there, I don't really know much about computer stuff. Is there any chance you could do a walk through of how to edit the data via data disk? Cause manually inputting everything on Playdate takes me quite a while.
Hey! Thank you for the idea. I’ve noted it, but I’m not sure I’ll make that. To provide a reason - editing data files should only be done by power users. If you forget about a closing quotation mark or add an unnecessary comma, it will result in broken JSON. I’m scared that if I encourage people to do that, I’ll have to deal with additional sets of errors, and I won’t be able to debug them because they will be related to corrupted data. But still, I’ll think about it. Maybe I should add a warning/disclaimer and recommend a tool that will make sure that the created JSON is correct. Thanks for the message!
Loving the app.
Just a question about editing the data inside the app in data mode:
Is the "id" integral to the operation of the app? I'd like to add some lists and to-dos, and the easiest way to do that is to copy an existing list. Can the ids just be random/duplicates, or are they generated in some way?
Hey, yes, Id is essential. It is used to compare elements of the list (events, todos, etc.). The only requirements for them are to be strings and to be unique (within a file). The format doesn’t matter. You can safely use https://www.uuidgenerator.net/ to generate IDs and put them for elements. I’m often just typing random characters by hand.
is it possible to change to a Sunday-Saturday calendar display?
There is no such option right now, but I’ll look at this topic. I can’t promise anything, though. Playdate SDK doesn’t have anything date related, so I implemented everything from scratch, and right now, I’m not sure how easy it will be to modify it. :)
ya did it! Thank you!!!!!
Hi! I noticed a few things that should be simple to add and would be nice.
1. List names get cut off if they are too long, and the only way to view the full name is to go into the renaming menu.
2. It would be very nice to be able to use the crank to scroll through lists instead of just the D-pad.
3. It would be nice to either rename or delete the Inbox list.
4. It seems like the sound for checking and unchecking a ToDo item should be swapped.
The app is very nice and I like it a lot! These would just be some nice quality of life changes, but by no means do you have to add them. Thank you for making this!
Hey, Thank you for your feedback. I’ll look at them, but right now, I have a quick tip for 3. As you probably noticed, this app is strongly opinionated, and that’s why based on GTD (and Things app) inbox list is called Inbox, so I’m not planning to add an option to change that in UI. But you can easily do that in data mode. Connect your playdate in data mode, head to
data/com.hydrasoftworks.pocketplanner directory, and opentodos/data.jsonin a code editor like VS Code or Notepad++. You will find the line"name":"Inbox",. You can change Inbox to something different there.Thanks! I hadn't heard of GTD, and looking into it is swaying me towards leaving the Inbox as is and trying it out haha
In that case, I’m strongly recommending https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done for you. :) Speaking about productivity, this may be the most important book that I read (and I like productivity books). It’s not mindblowing, but I’ve been using GTD with https://culturedcode.com/things/ for many years, all thanks to reading David Allen’s book 15 years ago.
wish i could use this on some other kind of device