Blog
Occasional writing about scheduling, and about the parts of it we cannot do for you.
12 August 2026
Hand a scheduled task to an agent you already run
Diarized can send a block from your calendar to an AI agent, and give you the hour back straight away. The agent is yours, not ours: it runs where your accounts already are. Here is the contract, and the setup for four ways of receiving it.
09 August 2026
Going to the dentist is not a task
A lot of what clogs up a to-do list is appointments wearing a task's clothes. The difference is not tidiness. Put an appointment in the wrong place and an auto-scheduler will book work straight over it.
08 August 2026
Auto-schedule Apple Reminders into Apple Calendar with Shortcuts
Diarized cannot read Apple Reminders, and neither can anything else that runs on a server. So here is how to build your own version, on your own device. What works, what it costs you in effort, and where it stops.
08 August 2026
Deep Work and time blocking: what Newport actually argues
Cal Newport's Deep Work is the book most time-blocking apps cite and least resemble. What it argues, how his version of time blocking works in practice, and where it disagrees with automatic schedulers like ours.
08 August 2026
Make Time's highlight method, and what a scheduler can't do with it
Knapp and Zeratsky's Make Time is a book against optimisation written by two people who built optimisation tools. Its one scheduling idea (the daily highlight) and why the authors would only half-approve of software like ours.
08 August 2026
Four Thousand Weeks: the case against tools like ours
Oliver Burkeman's book argues that productivity systems sell a fantasy: that with the right tool, everything will finally fit. We sell a scheduling tool. Here is his argument at full strength, and the two sentences we can honestly say back.
08 August 2026
Indistractable and the calendar your task app can't see
Nir Eyal's Indistractable argues that distraction starts inside, and that a calendar should hold your values before it holds your tasks. That second half is a real gap in every task-driven scheduler, including ours.
08 August 2026
When: the timing science schedulers ignore, ours included
Daniel Pink's When argues that the same task done at the wrong hour is a different task. No auto-scheduler on the market reads your chronotype. Here is what the book claims, and what an honest workaround looks like.
08 August 2026
Diarized vs Motion (2026): move your tasks in, or leave them where they are
Motion is an all-in-one workspace that auto-schedules the tasks you keep inside it. Diarized schedules the task app you already use. That one difference decides which is right for you, and the rest is price.
08 August 2026
Diarized vs Reclaim (2026): the same model, two different answers
Reclaim is the competitor most like Diarized. It also reads your existing task app instead of replacing it. The honest comparison comes down to free-plan breadth, habits, and whether you want to see the reasoning behind every block.
08 August 2026
Diarized vs FlowSavvy (2026): the budget auto-schedulers, compared
FlowSavvy and Diarized are the two cheap auto-schedulers. FlowSavvy is a calendar you adopt that now syncs Todoist; Diarized is a connector with no calendar of its own. An honest comparison from the Diarized side, including the update most reviews have not caught.
08 August 2026
The best time blocking apps in 2026, compared by one of them
Motion, Reclaim, FlowSavvy, Diarized and the do-it-yourself options. Three things separate them: where your tasks live, what happens when work misses its deadline, and what each one costs. Written by the makers of Diarized, with every claim dated.