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 the Daily tab, and plans whichever day you're viewing. It requires a device that supports Apple Intelligence (iOS 26 or later); 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 reads like a page from a planner. Fixed things (meetings, and any task that already has a time) are printed in ink at their real times. Suggestions are penciled in: handwritten titles with ~times, each with an estimated duration. A stamp in the corner tells you at a glance whether everything fits the day or you're overbooked.
Tasks the plan suggests skipping appear under If you get to it, each with a short reason. They stay on your day, untimed, below the planned items; nothing is moved to another day.
Not happy with the draft? Tap the refresh button beside Apply Plan for a fresh proposal. The plan sticks around while the app is open, so closing and reopening the sheet shows the same proposal until you regenerate.
Applying, adjusting, and clearing
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 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. Applied plans currently live on the device where you made them; they don't sync to your other devices.
Related: Capture & Dictate, Timeline, The Daily page