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LOCAL-FIRST LIFE TOOL PAPERDay

PAPERDAY · ANDROID · iOS

Every plan on
a single timeline.

Alarms · to-dos · subscriptions · contracts · medication · anniversaries · daily routine · timetable · diary. What normally takes nine separate apps, one app handles. What you write stays on the device; an account is optional.

What makes it different
Home screen — the next alarm at 8:30 PM with today's medication and alarms on one timeline (Korean-language screen)
15 holiday countries 13 currencies 7 repeat rules Nine kinds Ten themes Eight languages

01 On-device by default

What you write stays here,
an account is yours to choose.

All nine kinds work without signing in, and what you write stays on the device. An account is there for when you want the same records on more than one device.

  • Signing in is optional — connect with Google, Facebook, Kakao, LINE or Apple and the same records follow you across your devices and the web. The app keeps a list of connected devices, and each entry shows which device it was written on. Sync between devices is a paid subscription.
  • Weather is on from the start — the home screen's weather strip asks our server for a forecast. The location sent is a coarse coordinate, rounded to roughly a 10 km grid, if you have turned on “use my location”, and otherwise the capital of the country you chose for public holidays. Our server uses that coordinate only as a key to hold the answer briefly, and does not store it. You can turn weather off in settings.
  • Device calendar sync is off by default — turn it on and pick a Google or iCloud account calendar, and those entries travel with that account. You choose which calendar receives which kinds.
  • A backup is a file you make — you choose where it is saved. Pick a cloud drive and it goes there.
  • If you keep iCloud device backup switched on for an iPhone or iPad, the app's data can be included in that backup — it goes to your own iCloud, not to a company server, and we cannot reach it.

02 Nine kinds

The work of nine apps,
in one.

Alarms

Time and repeat cycle. Keeps ringing until dismissed

To-dos

Placed on the calendar as spans · kanban board

Subscriptions

Billing dates and monthly totals · free-trial warning

Contracts

Reminders 90 / 30 / 7 days before expiry

Medication

Times, cycles, intake history · remaining count

Anniversaries

Days that come round each year — anniversaries · birthdays · memorials

Daily routine

A 24-hour dial for the whole day

Timetable

Recurring slots by weekday and hour, on a weekly grid

Diary

Drop it in first, sort it later · tags · photos

The add panel has ten cells. Nine are the kinds above; the tenth, Vehicles, is not a kind but a door into the vehicle list — it keeps track of inspection and insurance renewals.

The add screen showing the nine kinds — alarms, to-dos, subscriptions, contracts, medication, anniversaries, daily routine, timetable and diary — plus a tenth cell for vehicles, in five rows of two (Korean-language screen)
Add — nine kinds plus a vehicles cell

03 Home

How much is left today,
and what time is next.

  • The large panel at the top shows whatever comes next — not only alarms, but medication, subscription payments and upcoming days too.
  • That panel turns over by itself every six seconds to bring up the next one, counting the days left as D-1 · D-6.
  • The label at the top left of the panel changes with whatever has come up — “alarm” · “medication” · “subscription”.
  • The “no-alarm days” chips and the “group switched off” band leave the reason nothing will ring today right on the screen.
  • Tick medication straight from the list — the time you took it is recorded.
Home screen — the panel is labelled “alarm”, with the next alarm, an evening walk at 8:30 PM, shown large with “in 1 hour 42 minutes”, a “no-alarm day 8/24 (Mon)” chip, a “group switched off · travel mode, 1” band, and medication at 3 of 4 with the times taken, followed by the alarm list in time order (Korean-language screen)
Showing an alarm — the label reads “alarm”, and the evening walk is 1 hour 42 minutes away.
The same home screen — six seconds later the panel has turned over, the label now reads “subscription”, and it shows 8.22 Sat · D-1 · a Spotify payment · billed on the 22nd of each month · ₩10,900. The list below is unchanged (Korean-language screen)
Showing a subscription — the same panel six seconds later. The label turns to “subscription” and D-1 · billed on the 22nd · ₩10,900 stands there. The list below is unchanged.

04 Alarms

Travelling? Switch off
the morning group.

  • One group switch silences them all, and turning it back on restores each alarm's own on/off state.
  • Seven repeat modes — once · daily · weekdays · chosen days · monthly · yearly · every N days.
  • Turn on skip public holidays and it stays quiet on the holidays of the country you pick.
  • When it rings, a full-screen view rises over the lock screen and the sound continues until you swipe to dismiss.
Alarm screen listing groups — weekday morning (3, on), weekend (2, on), travel mode (1, off) — and two ungrouped alarms (Korean-language screen)
Groups — one switch silences them all; turning it back on restores each alarm's own on/off state.
The alarm ringing screen — over the lock screen, 7:06 PM and “evening walk · daily” are shown large, with “snooze every 10 minutes · 3 left”, a “snooze 10 min” button, a “swipe to dismiss” slider, and at the very bottom “this works even while the screen is locked” (Korean-language screen)
Ringing — a full-screen view rises over the lock screen. “Snooze 10 min” and “swipe to dismiss”, and along the bottom a line the app writes for itself — “this works even while the screen is locked”.

05 The shape of a day

What your day looks like,
in one picture.

The full 24 hours are drawn as a dial. The segment for the current time fills in darker, and the centre shows what this time is for and how many minutes remain. When the segments crowd together, tap the dial to zoom into one quadrant — six hours: the labels step outside on leader lines, and the quadrant holding the current time is shaded faintly beyond the ring. Each segment can carry a reminder before it starts (15 minutes before, for example). And not only routine blocks — the alarms due that day stand on the same dial.

The daily-routine dial — the weekday plan drawn as a 24-hour circle, with the current segment “the commute home” and 10 minutes left until 19:00 shown at the centre (Korean-language screen)
Daily routine — two plans, one for weekdays and one for weekends. The right one comes up on its own. A sleep segment crossing midnight is drawn as it is.
Weekly timetable — stand-up, code review, weekly retrospective, a 1:1 and yoga blocks placed on a weekday-by-hour grid, with a line drawn across the current time of 4:25 PM (Korean-language screen)
Weekly timetable — weekday × hour grid. Set a term, as for a semester or a project, and it drops out by itself once the term is over.

06 Dates

By month or by week,
it is the same timeline.

The calendar has four views — month grid, week, day and list. Whichever you use, the mark for each kind comes along with it, so what a day holds is clear at a glance. Export to the device calendar and it opens in Google Calendar and the like.

Calendar week view — month, week, day and list tabs above 16 August (4th day of the 7th lunar month) and 17 August, a substitute holiday for Liberation Day (5th day of the 7th lunar month), with medication, alarms and routine in time order (Korean-language screen)
Lunar dates and holidays — set the holiday country to Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore or Malaysia and the lunar date stands beside the solar one. Substitute holidays are marked too.
Anniversaries screen — an “upcoming days” list with D-6 for a mother's birthday in red, followed by D-24 for a wedding anniversary, D-42 for a father's memorial day and D-193 for a founding day (Korean-language screen)
D-day — anniversaries, birthdays and memorial days come round each year on their own, counted in order as D-6 · D-24 · D-193. The nearest one stands in red.

07 Money and expiry

When the free trial ends,
and when things expire.

  • Thirteen currencies — KRW · USD · JPY · EUR · GBP · TWD · HKD · AUD · NZD · SGD · INR · MYR · ZAR.
  • Contracts and certificates warn you 90 / 30 / 7 days before expiry — a lease, insurance, a domain, an exam registration.
  • Only the name of a payment method is stored. Card numbers are not.
  • Choose, per item, how many days ahead to be told — and whether as an alarm or a notification.
Contracts screen listing a lease expiring 11/30, the domain carrotsoftclan.com on 10/5, an exam registration on 9/1, a driving-licence renewal on 3/14, and insurance, inspection and oil-change renewals for two cars (Korean-language screen)
Contracts and certificates — a lease, insurance, a domain, an exam registration. As an expiry approaches you are told three times over.
Vehicles screen — two cards, one for an Avante CN7 with three renewal dates and an oil change at D-15, one for a Carnival KA4 with two renewal dates and insurance renewal at D-152 (Korean-language screen)
Vehicles — the several renewal dates that hang off one car, kept together. Insurance · inspection · consumables. More than one car is fine. It handles renewal dates only — it is not a mileage or fuel ledger.

08 Capture

Sort it later.
Write it down now.

Lines you write by hand and lines the app posts for itself stack up on the same timelinemake or move a card and “to-do added”, “started” and “done” follow by themselves; moving one back leaves nothing. The lucky dice is one of them: roll it once a day in the diary for a single number from 0 to 9, and the result stays as that day's line.

Diary screen — an input line with tag-filter chips and a to-do board summary above it, and below, hand-written lines and “auto-posted” lines stacked in time order (Korean-language screen)
Diary — write a line, drop it in, done. Mix in a #word and it is collected as a tag. Up to twenty photos can go on one entry.
To-do board — two cards with due dates in the “To do” column, with the “In progress” and “Done” columns a swipe away (Korean-language screen)
To-do board — To do → In progress → Done. Move a card forward and a record is written to the diary automatically.

09 Themes and languages

Ten themes,
eight languages.

Paper Sage Sand Lilac Blossom Terracotta Sea Mist Yuzu Ink

Languages: device language · Korean · English · English (UK) · Japanese · German · French · Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) · Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) — Traditional Chinese comes in two editions. The clock format (12/24 hour) and the holiday country — fifteen of them: Korea · Japan · Taiwan · Hong Kong · USA · UK · Germany · France · Ireland · South Africa · Australia · New Zealand · Singapore · India · Malaysia — are selectable too. The date order is yours as well — month·day (8/4), day·month (4/8) or automatic, which follows the convention of the chosen language and, on “device language”, the device's country.

The calendar in the ink theme — an August month grid on a dark background marked with the symbol for each kind, and below it the items for Friday 21 August in time order (Korean-language screen)
Ink — the one dark theme of the ten. The other nine are light, paper-toned.
Settings screen — sage, sand, lilac, blossom, terracotta, sea, mist, yuzu and ink themes listed with colour swatches, and below them a “lock when opening the app” option (Korean-language screen)
App lock — opening the app asks for a fingerprint, a face, or the device passcode. It is a lock over the screen and the recent-apps list, not encryption of the stored files. Dismiss and snooze on a ringing alarm work as they always do, lock or no lock.

10 Backup

Your data,
as your own file.

  • Pick where to save, export as a single file, and restore from that file — overwrite or merge.
  • A safety backup is taken automatically just before a restore.
  • Photos attached to the diary go into the same zip.
  • You choose where it is saved. The app never uploads it anywhere on its own.
  • Backup files are sealed so they can't be read directly. If you want stronger protection you can password-protect a backup — but forget the password and there is no way to open it.
  • It also exports as a calendar file (.ics), so it carries over to another calendar app. That file has to be readable by a calendar app, so it is not sealed.
Backup screen — under the lines stating that everything is handled on the device with no network and that backup files are sealed, “password-protect this backup” is switched on with the password fields open, followed by import and calendar-file (.ics) export (Korean-language screen)
Backup — to a file on the device, sealed

Coming to Android and iOS.

We are preparing releases on Google Play and the App Store.
News appears on this page first.

Contact — contact@carrotsoftclan.com