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Your To-Do List Needs a Clock
Akiflow pulls scattered tasks into one calendar and makes every ambition bargain for a real hour. For busy professionals, that honesty can be worth more than another heroic to-do list.
BeforeSunset AI Plans the Day You Keep Postponing
It turns a messy brain dump into a realistic schedule, then gives you a pleasant little room in which to do the work. The clever planning deserves a look; the recent billing complaints deserve one too.
The AI Planner for People Who Don’t Trust AI Planners
Trevor AI turns the wishful thinking of a to-do list into appointments with yourself. Its defining feature may be the restraint to ask before moving anything.
Routine Puts Your Whole Week in One Window
For founders, freelancers, and calendar-led operators, Routine turns the daily scramble between tasks, meetings, and notes into one unusually calm control room. The catch is simple: the more of your working life you bring in, the more setup and trust it asks of you.
The Planner That Makes Overbooking Feel Slightly Embarrassing
Sunsama asks one unfashionable question: will all that work actually fit before dinner? For overloaded professionals, its daily ritual can be the difference between a plan and a guilt list.
Raphael Schaad
Raphael Schaad is a Swiss designer-engineer and Visiting Partner at Y Combinator who built three generation-defining products: iA Writer (the minimalist writing app), Flipboard (the original social magazine), and Cron (acquired by Notion in 2022). Raised in the Swiss Alps, trained at MIT Media Lab, he brings a rare combination of technical depth and design taste that has made him a go-to mentor for founders navigating the AI era.