Drey

Dear person with too many tabs open,

Your notes, tasks and calendar in one app.

You write “send Maya the deck by Friday” in a meeting note in Notion. Then you copy it into TickTick. Then you block an hour on Friday in Google Calendar, and none of the three will ever hear about the other two. So much effort.

I lived like that for years, so I’m building Drey. It’s the Notion and TickTick I wanted, in one app, with your calendar in the middle. Write that line once and it’s a task with a due date, sitting on Friday. Open Friday’s meeting and the note that started it is right there.

It isn’t open yet. I’m building it on my own, and I want it to be software you can rely on and feel at home in. I want the first people in to be the ones who’ll actually use it. If that’s you, leave your email below. I’ll write to you myself when your spot is ready.

Free to join. I’ll only write about Drey, and you can leave any time.

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Web
  • iPhone

Building Drey · [email protected]

P.S. Here’s what I’m building.

  • A calendar you can plan on.

    Drag a task onto a day and it becomes a block of time. Google and Outlook sit beside your own.

  • Tasks that live in your notes.

  • Meetings that remember.

P.P.S. About AI.

Every app wants a monthly fee for its own assistant now. Drey won’t have one. You probably already pay for ChatGPT or Claude, and they’re better than anything I’d bolt on, so you’ll connect the one you use. Ask it to turn Monday’s brain dump into tasks, or to find what the landlord said in March. It reads your notes only after you connect it, and you can disconnect it whenever you want.

No AI plan. No credits. Nothing extra on your bill.

It’s on every screen you own.

  • Mac, Windows, Linux, the web and iPhone.

    Edit on two at once and Drey keeps both.

  • A shortcut for stray thoughts.

  • Plain Markdown underneath.

Things people (would) ask me

Drey is a notes app with a to-do list and a calendar built in. Write a note, tick off tasks and plan your week in one place, on Mac, Windows, Linux, the web and iPhone.

I’m letting people in a few at a time, and the list goes first. You’ll get an email from me when your spot is ready.

I haven’t set prices yet. You’ll know what Drey costs well before anyone asks you to pay, and joining the list is free.

No. Drey is a notes, tasks and calendar app first. If you already pay for ChatGPT or Claude, you’ll be able to plug it in. If you don’t, you won’t miss a thing.

It’s both, in one app. Picture the notes side of Notion and the planning side of TickTick, where a note can hold a task and a task can sit on your calendar.

Yes. Every note is Markdown, so an export is a folder of text files that any editor can open. You won’t need Drey to read them.

I’ll use it to tell you when your spot is ready and to send the odd update while I build. You can leave the list from the link in my first email, and I don’t share it with anyone.

Yes. [email protected] is my own inbox, and I read everything.

On my desk now.

  • Import from Notion, Evernote and Obsidian.

    Drop .enex files

    Choose files

  • Tables and boards in a note.

    Planned2

    Paint hallwayHallway
    Herb gardenGarden

    Doing1

    Wall shelvesKitchen

    Done2

    Fix the bikeGarage
    Bath tilesBathroom

  • A note’s own look.

    Sunday pages

    Coffee, the long way round the lake, and nothing planned until four.

    1

The whole roadmap

If you read all the way down here, you’re probably who I’m building this for.

Free to join. I’ll only write about Drey, and you can leave any time.