Planmore - Schedule Planner

I was a Franklin Covey lover for almost a decade after a boss trained us and put our team through the focus seminars. I used paper planners and actually had my three ring binders that kept my daily/weekly/monthly pages going back for previous years. I’ve always been surprised how it seems Franklin Covey didn’t fully embrace building a digital platform that was easy and accessible (guess they made a lot of money from selling paper pages), but finally Planmore has accomplished what I’ve been looking for ever since getting an iPhone 5. This is the best app to replicate goals/roles/task prioritization and planning that I have found after looking at dozens of apps over the years. I was able to build a task list for each of my roles and easily organize it to build my weekly priorities and then track on a daily bases. There are plenty of apps to simply build a task list, but this gives all the customizations needed to make them goal realizing lists. Thank you for providing the free version to show the potential and making it affordable to upgrading to Pro to get all the benefits. Cost less than a couple months of a paper planner, but makes organizing, repeating task, and shifting dates so much easier than paper. Well done and quick developer response in less than a day when I did have a question.

First off, paper planners never worked for me. I could never stick with it. Who wants to carry around a bulky planner anyway. I would always run out of room to write things. Even the fancier ones were difficult to customize. Reoccurring tasks…who wants to write things in a planner a bazillion times?! I liked using the calendar and reminders on my phone much better because I could move things around with ease, and let’s be honest, a paper planner is only helpful if you look at it, so having phone notifications are a godsend. Anyway, it was better, but then I came across the developer’s previous app AnyPlan and fell in love with having everything in one place. I had a simple suggestion to make it better and the developers got right back to me. Unfortunately the AnyPlan app was no longer but they directed me to their new app Planmore and I downloaded it. Set up looks similar at first, with the addition of the year tab, but the biggest change I noticed is when I clicked on settings. Aside from having to relearn how to do everything, and the pain of transferring all the tasks and notes over, I now like it even better. I love the addition of the sub tasks too. To be honest, transferring everything over really just gave me the opportunity to customize everything even further. Couldn’t be happier.

I started with the full version of AnyPlan. I raved about it so much my mom was curious about it too but we couldn’t find it in the App Store. After a quick google search we found it that it had a new and improved version! The cost is affordable and only a one time amount, compared to stores where you have to buy expensive planners yearly. Another thing that I love that I believe is newer is the fact that it now can pull in your iOS reminders, something I use heavily both in work and personal and the ability to see it alongside my calendars now is great. One thing that would be nice, is to see a task list at the bottom of each day when in week view, similar to Outlook, with the ability to drag tasks to the next day if you couldn’t get to them that day. On a plus side, you still get to view your reminders/tasks on the side. Another thing I love about the integration is that it tells you what reminders list it came from, which is super helpful when I have a ton of lists going on. Customer service is great and very responsive too. Can’t wait to play around further with the newer version. Thank you so much for making a great app, my organized self can’t get enough of it!