I built my own planner in 3 days using Figma Make
and it’s already part of my daily routine.
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There are two apps that really help me plan my day.
One is Stoic, which asks me how I’m feeling and what I want to focus on.
The other is Trello, which recently added a very cool “planner” feature: you create tasks in Kanban and then drop them into a daily calendar. The catch? After the beta, Trello made it paid-only =(. Honestly, I don’t use Trello deeply enough to justify paying for it.
So I thought: what if I built my own planner?
Day 1, August 25
I dropped a Trello screenshot into Figma Make and asked it to create a simple Kanban with a calendar on the side. It worked surprisingly well, I could already create tasks and slot them into my day.
I integrated it with Supabase, so tasks were stored in a proper database.
I added user accounts, passwords, and Google OAuth login. Suddenly, I had a working app.
Day 2, August 26
I got hooked on iterating.
Inspired by Stoic, I realized reflection was key: balancing tasks that drain energy with those that recharge me.
I added a feature to classify tasks by “energy spent” and track how I felt afterward.
I built an energy checkpoint. The app asks how I’m feeling and adjusts my “energy points” accordingly.
The missing piece was Google Calendar sync. This turned into the hardest challenge of the day.
Day 3, August 27
After long sessions with GPT, I finally connected Google Calendar via ICS files. The limitation is that my app can’t edit events directly, only read them.
Still, I made the events show up inside my planner. It took hours of trial and error, but it worked.
In less than a week, I had a functional app that I now actually use every day.
