A native Mac app for planning your day. Press ⌥⌘ K over anything, or hold ⌥⌘L and just say it, and it lands on the right day. Your Google Calendar sits beside your tasks, reminders ring at their time, and it all works offline.
I'm Anshul, and I built Diurnal because I could not find this app anywhere (at least not for free).
The problem was simple to say and hard to find: I wanted my tasks and my calendar in one place and I wanted to reach it without leaving whatever I was doing.
Every to-do app was a place I had to go. Switch to it, click around, file the thing, find my way back. By then the thought had cost me the work I was in the middle of.
So Diurnal is a key instead of a place.
Press ⌥⌘K over anything, write the thought the way you would say it, and it lands on the right day
Hold ⌥⌘L and just speak it, several tasks in one breath
Your Google Calendar sits beside your tasks, syncing both ways
Weekly planning built in: file a task into the week, drag it onto a day later
Reminders ring at the task's time
Native Mac app, works offline and its fast!
The weekly planning part was missing from almost everything I tried, or locked behind a subscription I did not want. So I built my own.
Try the real overlay in your browser at diurnal.in, no install needed.
I would love to hear how you capture things now and what I missed.
About Diurnal on Product Hunt
“The fastest way to get a thought out of your head”
Diurnal launched on Product Hunt on September 22nd, 2026 and earned 78 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #22 on the daily leaderboard. A native Mac app for planning your day. Press ⌥⌘ K over anything, or hold ⌥⌘L and just say it, and it lands on the right day. Your Google Calendar sits beside your tasks, reminders ring at their time, and it all works offline.
On the analytics side, Diurnal competes within Productivity, Task Management and Calendar — topics that collectively have 777.6k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Diurnal performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Diurnal?
Diurnal was hunted by Anshul Sharma. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Diurnal including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Anshul Sharma
Hello there,
I'm Anshul, and I built Diurnal because I could not find this app anywhere (at least not for free).
The problem was simple to say and hard to find: I wanted my tasks and my calendar in one place and I wanted to reach it without leaving whatever I was doing.
Every to-do app was a place I had to go. Switch to it, click around, file the thing, find my way back. By then the thought had cost me the work I was in the middle of.
So Diurnal is a key instead of a place.
Press ⌥⌘K over anything, write the thought the way you would say it, and it lands on the right day
Hold ⌥⌘L and just speak it, several tasks in one breath
Your Google Calendar sits beside your tasks, syncing both ways
Weekly planning built in: file a task into the week, drag it onto a day later
Reminders ring at the task's time
Native Mac app, works offline and its fast!
The weekly planning part was missing from almost everything I tried, or locked behind a subscription I did not want. So I built my own.
Try the real overlay in your browser at diurnal.in, no install needed.
I would love to hear how you capture things now and what I missed.