CapyPlan · Blog
Notes from the onsen.
Essays on gentle productivity, planning without guilt, and the occasional capybara wallpaper.
· 8 min read
The best gentle planner apps in 2026, honestly compared
Seven planners judged on one question: what happens when you miss a task? Tiimo, Structured, Sunsama, Finch, Amazing Marvin, Llama Life and CapyPlan, compared by the makers of one of them.
· 6 min read
How to become formidable (it is not what the shouting men say)
Formidable people are not the ones who never stop. They are the ones who restart cheaply. Four habits and a three-restart rule for the thing you keep abandoning.
· 5 min read
A gentler wheel of life: eight slices, no score to beat
The wheel of life exercise, reworked so it does not become eight new obligations. Rate attention instead of satisfaction, pick one slice, give it one small act.
· 2 min read
Four free capybara phone wallpapers from CapyPlan
Download four free capybara iPhone wallpapers in the CapyPlan palette: a hammock by the sea, a moonlit onsen, a lazy river, and a meadow nap.
· 6 min read
We assume you will not follow your plan. Here is why that is the point.
The philosophy behind CapyPlan: why most planners punish you, what a gentle planner does instead, and the yuzu ritual that replaced streaks.