Your goals, front and center.
Pick up trends from your past notes.
Form habits that last.
Schedule with the precision you have.
Improve your time estimation skills.
Apply Ideas from Great Books
And of course, your are free — in fact encouraged,
to apply your own!
David Allen
Getting Things Done
The art of stress-free productivity
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Ryder Carroll
The Bullet Journal Method
Track the past. Order the present. Design the future.
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James Clear
Atomic Habits
An easy & proven way to build good habits
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Cal Newport
Deep Work
Rules for focused success in a distracted world
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Brian Tracy
Eat That Frog!
Stop procrastinating and get more done
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Greg McKeown
Essentialism
The disciplined pursuit of less
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Brian P. Moran & Michael Lennington
The 12 Week Year
Get more done in 12 weeks than others do in 12 months
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Gary Keller & Jay Papasan
The One Thing
The surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results
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Cal Newport
Digital Minimalism
Choosing a focused life in a noisy world
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Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky
Make Time
How to focus on what matters every day
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Julia Cameron
The Artist's Way
A spiritual path to higher creativity
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Oliver Burkeman
Four Thousand Weeks
Time management for mortals
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Your data stays private, portable and fully yours.
Local & Private
Dotty runs 100% on your Mac. Nothing ever leaves your computer unless you explicitly turn on sync.
Open Format
Your data is stored in standard SQLite files you can open, query, or import into any tool (Numbers, Excel, Python, etc.) without exporting or special steps.
Full Ownership
The app and your data files keep working forever—no license checks, no subscription, no DRM.
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Why Dotty Exists
A letter from the person who built it
I’ve spent years bouncing between beautiful paper notebooks and powerful (but rigid) digital tools. Paper feels perfect until you need to move a task from Thursday to next month.
Digital tools let you move anything instantly… but suddenly your planner looks and feels like a spreadsheet.
Dotty is my attempt to get the best of both worlds: the freedom and calm of a blank dotted page, combined with the speed and flexibility that only software can give you — without ever forcing a structure on you.
My hope is that it quietly becomes a part of your life for many years to come.
— Francisco Ceruti, indie developer behind Dotty