Plan My Day (Beta)
Let on-device AI propose a schedule for your day, penciled in around your real meetings, then apply it, adjust it, or erase it.
Some days deserve more than a list. Plan My Day reads everything on your day (tasks, reminders, habits, and your calendar) and proposes a schedule: what to do, in what order, and roughly when, penciled in around the meetings you can't move. You stay in charge: apply the plan, redraw it, drag pieces around, or erase the whole thing. Plan My Day is in beta, so expect it to keep evolving; if a plan surprises you, the Share Diagnostics button under Diagnostics sends me exactly what the AI saw.
Plan My Day lives in the Smart Assistant menu (the wand icon), on both the Daily and Timeline tabs, and plans whichever day you're viewing. The proposal is drawn on the Timeline, so running it from the Daily tab brings you there to review it. It requires iOS 27 or later on a device that supports Apple Intelligence; when your device offers Private Cloud Compute, Finalist uses it for better plans and falls back to on-device intelligence otherwise.
What the plan knows
The proposal is built from the day exactly as Daily shows it. Calendar events are treated as fixed: the plan flows around them, never through them. Hidden calendars, Solo mode, and your other visibility settings all apply, so a calendar you've turned off doesn't block your free time.
A few more things quietly inform the proposal:
- Your Day begins and Day ends hours from Settings shape the planning window.
- The day's Highlight acts as a theme: on a day marked "Vacation", work tasks tend to wait.
- The weather forecast, including hour-by-hour rain windows when available, nudges outdoor tasks into dry daylight hours.
Reading the proposal
The proposal appears on the Timeline itself. Your fixed commitments and existing blocks fade to gray, and the suggested tasks stand out as highlighted blocks at their proposed times, each with a ~time and an estimated duration. Because they sit on the real grid, you can see exactly how the plan fits around your meetings.
Tasks the plan suggests leaving for another time stay on your day, untimed, in the parking lot at the edge of the Timeline; nothing is moved to another day.
The plan sticks around while the app is open. To try a different draft, dismiss it and run Plan My Day again.
Applying, adjusting, and clearing
A bar floats at the bottom of the Timeline while you review a plan. Apply Plan pencils the suggested times onto your day. Your tasks themselves are never modified: no dates change, no reminders are edited, nothing syncs anywhere. The penciled times appear on Daily rows (marked with a small pencil in your accent color), on the Timeline as blocks you can drag to new times, and on your Apple Watch for today.
Penciled times behave like pencil. Drag a planned task to a different time slot on Daily or the Timeline and the plan updates. Drag it into the No Time section, or onto the Timeline's parking lot, and it's un-penciled. Give a task a real time of its own and that always wins.
Clear erases the plan and restores the day exactly as it was before you first applied one, no matter how many plans you've applied since. It's on the review bar, so you can back out before applying as well as after. Applied plans currently live on the device where you made them; they don't sync to your other devices.
When you decide a plan is a keeper, the Accept button at the top right of the Timeline writes the penciled times into the tasks themselves, so they sync everywhere like any timed task. The menu next to it can Reject the day's pencil marks instead.
Related: Capture & Dictate · Timeline & Time Blocking · Your Daily Page