Planning
Plan what matters, with the context still attached.
Milogs keeps your plans close to the notes, reflections, and events that put them on your list. It is a private planner for a life that does not arrive in isolated tasks. Local-first, and yours.
Plan by day
Work lives in the day it belongs to, not an endless backlog that loses its relationship to real life.
Keep the why
Every task can link back to the journal entry, note, or reflection that made it necessary, so future-you knows why it mattered.
Follow through gently
Reminders, subtasks, and overdue handling make the next action obvious without nagging you.
What you can do
A clear answer
What is this for?
Most planners reduce a plan to a line item and throw away everything that produced it. Milogs keeps the two together. A plan carries the date you gave it, the journal entry, note, or file that made it necessary, and as many subtasks as it takes to finish. When something slips, it does not disappear into an unfiled backlog; it stays where you left it until you decide what to do with it. Because plans share a workspace with your journal, planning is not a second system to maintain. It is the follow-through on what you already wrote down.
1. Date it as it appears
Give the plan the day it belongs to the moment it occurs to you, so it stays tied to real life instead of drifting in an unsorted list.
2. Keep the reason with it
Attach the journal entry, note, or file that produced the plan. Weeks later you can see why it mattered, not just that it exists.
3. Break it down and close it out
Split it into subtasks, set a reminder, and let overdue handling surface what slipped. The next action stays obvious, and nothing has to nag you into it.
Frequently asked questions
How does planning in Milogs relate to journaling?
Plans are not a separate system. Tasks and reminders stay connected to the journal entries that created them, so the reflection that made you decide something and the plan you made as a result live in the same place.
Can I break one plan into smaller steps?
Yes. A plan can hold subtasks with completion progress, so a vague intention becomes a sequence you can work through. Tags and full-text search find the plan again even if you only remember one word from it.
What happens when a plan goes overdue?
It stays visible on the day it was meant for rather than being archived or silently dropped. You move it, split it, or finish it, and reminders keep the decision in front of you without turning it into a guilt list.
Do plans and reminders need an internet connection?
No. Plans are stored local-first, so the plan you set on a device is there whether or not you have a connection. Sync is optional, and its job is to put the same plans on your other devices, end-to-end encrypted.