Glass Planner app for iPhone and iPad

4.6 ( 6256 ratings )

Utilities Productivity
Developer: Slide Rule Software

Free

Current version: 1.7.5, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 02 Jan 2015
App size: 26.95 Mb

AN APP STORE "BEST NEW APP” — ALSO A “GET THINGS DONE” AND “STAY ON TASK” SELECTION IN PRODUCTIVITY.

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GLASS IS YOUR OS FOR LIFE—A dynamic calendar that integrates tasks, to-do lists, and goals into your scheduled daily workflow.

In Glass, you manage your tasks right in your calendar, where you can schedule them into your day. And when it’s time to get things done, Glass shines. Just touch the ACT switch, and Glass transforms your calendar into a streamlined action list. You see only today’s appointments, and only those upcoming tasks you can act on now, all sorted by priority. All other distractions are eliminated. Its an automatic, intelligent life planner that lets you think months ahead or sharpen your focus to the next few hours.

Glass syncs with your iCloud Calendar so you can work with your schedule on any Apple device. If youre familiar with David Allen’s “Getting Things Done,” youll love Glass, especially for the calendar-based prioritization and filtering that traditional GTD apps can’t provide. Explore Glass depths and youll find a complete set of tools that make big planning possible—even fun—on a small screen.

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SPECIAL NOTES TO USERS

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FEATURES

+ A beautiful everyday calendar that doesnt limit you to just two kinds of “event.”

+ Intuitive calendar navigation makes Glass feel big even on small screens.

+ Calendar syncing keeps Glass in sync with your Apple Calendar events.

+ Glass’s ACT view shows you what you can act on NOW, all sorted by priority—perfect for just getting things done.

+ Highly customizable repeats keep your calendar uncluttered.

+ Checklists can be attached to any action item in Glass—great for shopping lists, meeting agendas, parts of assignments, and more.

+ Use Tags to group items according to location or context, so you can act on them with maximum efficiency.

+ Timelines let you hide tasks that are not yet actionable.

+ Projects in Glass are uniquely dynamic and informal—you won’t hesitate to create projects with just a few subtasks.

+ Fans of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” are calling Glass a significant advancement from traditional GTD planners.

Visit our website to learn more—and thanks for giving Glass a try!

Pros and cons of Glass Planner app for iPhone and iPad

Glass Planner app good for

Great todo list where its also easy to keep track of future work. A desktop app with syncing across devices would be awesome. It would also be even better if I could set repeating tasks according to the last date completed. (For example, its inevitable that I will put off completing house chores. If I have a chore repeating to do every Saturday, but I procrastinate and completed the last one on Tuesday, then I may not want to plan on completing that same chore on the next Saturday but the next Tuesday instead.)

Best productivity app Ive ever used, hands down. For a consistent postponer like me, the Flexible tasks are great at keeping me aware without being concrete enough to feel hopeless when I delay them. And the project nesting, while present in apps such as Omnifocus, is slim and versatile. Nesting projects within each other is not complicated, so its easy to be creative with your organizing. The best thing about Glass is that I never really feel restricted by the internal structures of the task management, so it has tons of capacity for customizability. However, I have to deduct a star because of the slow pace of dev updates and the lack of a proper iPad app (or web app). Currently tasks cannot sync between devices, so if I want to plan my day or add tasks to my inbox while at the office, I have to do so on my phone. I am willing to bet Im not the only person who cant appear tied to their personal phone in front of their boss all day. A web or iPad app would also be great for quick entry, which is one of Glasss few weak spots. At least with a computer or an iPad (and keyboard) it would be easier to dump 10-20 tasks at once. Anyway, fantastic app and definitely my favorite task management software (Omnifocus is second placed for me, in case you need a solid alternate option that does have iPad and desktop support). I hope the Slide Rule has been working hard on a new update for us! Maybe something new and fresh to mark the arrival of spring

This is by far the best planner app that I have found. It does everything I was hoping all the other ones would do and has allowed me to go from using two apps to one app for all of my stuff. Thank you Glass people!

Its been roughly a year and a half that Ive used glass as my only planner. Its by far the best app I have ever used and I absolutely depend on it daily. But seriously.... We need some progress guys! I wouldnt even mind paying some kind of subscription fee in order to get better/more frequent updates. iPad enhancements, 3D tough, widget, and especially a DESKTOP app are all still missing. Im not sure if the developers are giving up on glass, they are incredibly slow, or somehow dont view those updates as important, but somethings got to change or Im going to have to switch to something else. Ive been waiting 1.5 years now... Come on guys, it really is a fantastic app, just make some progress.

This app its great! I hate having tons of different apps for to-do, lists and events. With Glass I can manage everything in one place. And once you learn how to use it, its super easy and fast!! Great job!

Glass is everything I ever searched in an agenda. To be perfect and get all the 5 stars it just would have to sync with toodledo or have and web app, so I could acess my calendar online.

Some bad moments

Started out Great, ahead of many others.... But it sure has fallen behind, no widget, or iPad app. And if they do have an update... Its for bugs in the app. Meaning, its really not supported.

Glass Planner could be a killer app in the task management space. The concept is a radical vision in the vast wasteland of GTD centric list based task management apps. One of the very few apps that understand that task management must be calendar centric then coupled the concept with an elegant UI well-designed for the phone environment. An utter failure to understand however that no one with a REAL task list is going to input their individual tasks using a thumb keyboard. A task managment app MUST have zero friction task capture/input, Glass has massive friction getting your tasks into the system. Also falls into the fantasy that having an algorithm suggest the task to fill the time available is value-adding. NO - software that helps ME plan my tasks is the killer not software that presumes the time available is the key parameter. Slide Rule software appears to have abandoned a product that had enormous potential but did not take off because of very "fixable" flaws. Its sad really because the potential was enormous.

Every stupid app now wants our email addresses. Enough is enough. You cant have it. App deleted.

Its a shame this app claims that the upgrade is free. Get ready to shell out almost $20—less if you dont mind the app bothering your friends on Facebook. I fully support developers getting paid, but to claim in the App Store that the upgrade is free, well...

Developers failed to mention the MANDATORY sign up that has to be done before the app will let you in. No explanation of why this is necessary since there is iCloud for syncing.

I have to create an account, login and upload all my personal information just to view my existing calendars? Nope. Deleted.

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