Dotty is a planning app for Mac that keeps your daily work connected to your long-term goals.
Mac
Available
iPad
Mid 2026
iPhone
TBA
Watch
TBA
Vision
TBA
Keep Goals Visible
Keep your long-term direction close at hand. Dotty places your goals alongside your everyday plans, making them part of the same workspace where decisions actually happen.
See what you’re aiming for as you move through your days and weeks, and understand how small steps contribute to larger outcomes. With your goals always in view, it becomes easier to plan with intention and stay aligned over time.
Build Your System
Design a planner that works the way you do. Dotty lets you arrange your planning tools into clear, intentional layouts, giving you the freedom to shape a system that reflects how you think.
Your planner adapts as your workflows develop, allowing routines and structures to shift naturally over time. Quiet iteration becomes part of the process, helping your planning environment mature alongside the way you work.
Notes in Perfect Context
Contextual note-taking that’s available exactly when you need it. Your notes automatically connect to specific timeframes, ending the frustration of scattered insights that get buried and forgotten.
Switch between daily, weekly, or monthly views and find all related notes perfectly organized—revealing patterns and connections that transform raw information into insight.
Form Habits That Last
Build simple, steady routines without switching tools. Dotty keeps habits close to your daily and weekly plans, grounding them in the same place where you track real work.
See how often you follow through, spot meaningful trends over time, and understand how your routines interact with projects, energy, and personal demands. Habit data becomes part of the bigger picture—revealing connections that help you plan with clarity.
Dotty tracks different kinds of data—not just whether you did something, but how it felt, measurements that change over time, or any pattern worth monitoring. Your habit tracking becomes more nuanced, revealing what completion alone can't show.
Flexible Scheduling
Dotty gives every task a place across day, week, month, quarter, and year. You can plan broadly when details are uncertain and refine each step as the moment approaches—everything stays aligned as your timeline shifts.
Rescheduling and reprioritizing are a natural part of real planning. Dotty embraces those changes without breaking your structure, keeping your work coherent while giving you the flexibility to adjust with confidence and clarity.
Improve Time Estimation
Dotty brings clarity to how long work really takes. By comparing your estimates with the time you actually spend, you gain an honest understanding of your pace and the shape of your days.
This feedback stays close to your planning surface, helping you make calmer decisions about what fits into a day or week. Your expectations stay grounded and your plans become steadier, guided by a clearer sense of your real pace.
Apply Ideas from Great Books
And of course, your are free — in fact encouraged,
to apply your own!
Getting Things Done
The art of stress-free productivity
The Bullet Journal Method
Track the past. Order the present. Design the future.
Atomic Habits
An easy & proven way to build good habits
Deep Work
Rules for focused success in a distracted world
Eat That Frog!
Stop procrastinating and get more done
Essentialism
The disciplined pursuit of less
The 12 Week Year
Get more done in 12 weeks than others do in 12 months
The One Thing
The surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results
Digital Minimalism
Choosing a focused life in a noisy world
Make Time
How to focus on what matters every day
The Artist's Way
A spiritual path to higher creativity
Four Thousand Weeks
Time management for mortals
Transparent Data Storage
Your data lives in a plain SQLite database you can inspect or query at any time. Nothing is hidden, locked, or proprietary.
Local and Private by Default
Dotty works entirely on your Mac. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you explicitly choose to sync.
Portable and Interoperable
Your data is always stored in standard formats. You can use it outside Dotty without exporting or relying on special tools.
You Own Your Copy Forever
Dotty is a one-time purchase. You’re not renting software or access—your planner remains fully functional for as long as your Mac runs it.
A Message From The Develooper
I love everything about an A5 dotted notebook — the texture, the calmness, the possibilities of a new idea taking shape. But changing plans on paper is slow and messy, and once something’s written, there’s no easy way to reorganize it without starting over.
On the other hand, digital tools offer everything paper can’t — infinite memory, instant rearrangement, fast input. But that power comes at a cost: a rigid visual structure that imposes its own philosophy of planning and aesthetics on you.
Dotty exists to bridge that gap: the freedom of a notebook, the power of software, without the friction of either. It lets you shape a planning system that fits the way you need right now, and evolve it as your work changes.
My hope is that Dotty becomes a quiet part of your workflow for years to come. Every decision is made toward a long-lasting product that puts user privacy, data ownership, and planning expressiveness first.
— Francisco Ceruti, Developer
Dotty
Layout Your Plan.
Thank you for your attention. Have a great week!