Slate
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Local-first day planner · Windows

Breathe out a thought. Watch it land on your day.

Slate is a fast, quiet day planner for Windows. Hit a hotkey anywhere, type what's on your mind — it reads the time and drops onto your timeline.

Everything stays on your machine. No cloud, no account, no subscription, no AI running your schedule.

Why Slate

The premium planners all live in someone else's cloud. Slate doesn't.

One fast, private place for your day — built for the people the Mac-only, subscription-only tools left behind.

Yours

On your machine

Tasks live in an encrypted database on your PC, fully offline. They never touch a server — because they never leave.

Native

Actually fast

Built in Rust and Flutter, not Electron. A global hotkey and a 120-fps timeline that answers the instant you touch it.

Owned

No subscription

A tool you keep, not rent. No $20 a month to look at your own day, no trial clock counting down.

Yours to run

No AI overlord

Nothing rearranges your day behind your back. You place time with your hands; Slate gets out of the way.

How it works

Three seconds, no forms.

1

Capture

Press Alt + Space from anywhere — even over other apps. A quiet pill appears, ready.

2

Parse

Type gym tomorrow at 6. Slate reads the date and time itself — no fields, no pickers.

3

Land

It drops onto your day's timeline. Drag to move it, check it off, breathe. Back to work in two seconds.

Honest about it

What Slate is not.

The wedge is focus. A few things it deliberately doesn't do — so you know before you download.

  • Not a cloud service. No sync, no account. That's the point.
  • Not another AI planner. It won't schedule for you.
  • Not on your phone yet. Desktop-first, on purpose.
  • Not a 30-app hub. One fast place, not a dispatcher.
Try it

Your day, on your machine.

Free while it's in early testing. Two weeks with it, then tell me honestly — worth keeping, or not.

Not code-signed yet, so Windows will show a warning on install — click More info → Run anyway. It's a false positive, already under review by Microsoft.