For busy minds Low friction

A visual planner for busy minds.

When there are a hundred things going round in your head and no obvious place to put them, this is the planner that holds them for you. Get it all out, see your whole week, and work out what actually fits.

No account needed to try · Start with a brain dump

Out of your head · this week
CaptureBefore the thought's gone
VisibleTime you can see
Whole weekNothing out of sight
£40/yrFounder rate, locked for life →
If this sounds familiar

"That's exactly how my brain works."

You don't need more willpower. You need somewhere to put the hundred things — and a way to see where they fit.

There are a hundred things going round in my head.
I forget things unless I write them down straight away.
I keep remembering things at the wrong moment.
Everything feels important.
I keep moving the same task from one day to the next.
I know what needs doing — I just can't see where it fits.
Why ordinary planners don't stick

Most planners ask your memory to do the heavy lifting.

If a thought has to survive in your head until later, it often won't. If time feels abstract, an afternoon can seem endless until it suddenly isn't. And if a task scrolls off the bottom of a list, it's gone — out of sight, out of mind.

A visual planner flips that. It holds the task so you don't have to, and turns time into something you can see and move — which takes the pressure off the exact parts of planning that feel hardest.

How it helps

Designed to lower the friction.

Get it out of your head

Capture a task the second it appears, before it vanishes. The Life Inbox holds it so your memory doesn't have to.

Make time visible

Each task becomes a block of real size on a real day, so a full afternoon looks full. Time stops being a guess.

Keep the week in view

Everything stays on one screen, so tasks don't scroll out of mind. Out of sight is the enemy — this keeps it in sight.

Is it right for you?

When this helps most.

This can help if you…

  • Lose tasks the moment they leave your head
  • Find that everything feels equally important
  • Want to plan without having to decide everything up front

Another tool may suit you better if…

  • You want timed alarms and reminders more than a plan
  • You'd rather a tool decided your schedule for you
  • A simple checklist already keeps you on track

Big Picture Planner is a planning tool — here to help you organise your week, not to offer medical or clinical advice.

Questions

Planning for a busy mind, explained.

It's a weekly planner built for people who have a lot going on in their head at once. Instead of a long list to remember, you capture every task in one place — the Life Inbox — and then lay your week out visually, so your commitments and to-dos appear as movable blocks you can see and rearrange. The aim is to take the load off your memory and make it obvious what actually fits.

Capture them the instant they arrive, before they're gone. In Big Picture Planner you drop any thought straight into the Life Inbox without stopping to organise it. Because the inbox holds it for you, you don't have to rely on remembering — you can deal with it later, when you place it into your week.

When everything feels equally urgent, a list can't help you choose — but a visual week can. Once your tasks are laid out as blocks against your real days, you can see that they don't all fit at once, which makes it clear what genuinely needs doing next and what can move. Seeing the week, rather than holding it in your head, is what makes prioritising possible.

Yes — and that's the point. Capturing and deciding are kept separate. You can empty everything into the Life Inbox first, with no commitment about when to do it, then place items into your week one at a time whenever you're ready. Avoiding the pressure to decide too soon is often what makes it possible to start at all.

Mental load builds up when you're carrying everything internally. Putting your whole week in front of you — events, tasks, errands and rest — moves that weight out of your head and onto the screen. Once it's visible, you can stop re-counting it, see what fits, and trust that nothing is being silently dropped.

Keep exploring

Related ways to plan.

Let the planner hold it, not your head.

Open the demo and get a few of those hundred things out of your head and onto the week. No account, no commitment.

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