The short version
Dayforge is a voice-first day planner. You talk. It listens. It turns what you said into a real calendar with buffers between blocks, a cap on how much deep work you can pile into one day, and a ceiling on the day itself so overflow moves to a backlog instead of drowning you.
I built it because I have ADHD and every other planner I tried assumed I could do things my brain does not reliably do — like estimate time, feel the clock, or remember to open the app.
The long-ish version
I spent years cycling through to-do apps. I'd load them up on a Sunday, feel briefly like a functional adult, and by Wednesday the app was a red-tag graveyard I couldn't bear to look at. The common thread wasn't the apps. It was that all of them assumed the hard part of planning is remembering what to do. For me the hard part has always been the friction between knowing and capturing, and then between the calendar and actually doing.
So I stopped shopping for planners and wrote down the rules a planner would have to follow to survive contact with me. Talk, don't type. Buffers between everything. A cap on deep work. A ceiling on the day. Explicit human commitments always win. That list became Dayforge.
Why "Dayforge Vault"
Dayforge is the product. Dayforge Vault is the mobile app name (App Store and Google Play). The "Vault" part is the promise: what you speak into it is yours. It doesn't train AI on your data. It doesn't sell anything about you. Your day is not the product. The product is a calmer week.
"Wait, is this Dayforce?"
No. Dayforce is a large HR and payroll platform for enterprises. Dayforge is a solo-built voice-first day planner for humans (with or without ADHD) who want an honest calendar. Different word, different vibe, entirely different product.
Who this is for
People who like to talk. People whose brains scatter faster than their fingers type. People who've been burned by every productivity tool that shipped with six views, four projects, and a subscription tier. People who want to open one screen, see today, and do the next thing.
Not for you if you love an intricate GTD setup with nested tags. Genuinely — there are great tools for that and Dayforge is not one of them.
What I'm promising
A voice-first, opinionated, deliberately small planner that assumes the calendar's job is to tell the truth about the day — not to hold every task you've ever thought of. It'll help you plan. It won't do the plan for you. That part is still on all of us.
Where to go next: the rules baked into Dayforge, or why voice specifically works.