{"id":160,"date":"2018-12-28T17:30:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surfshields.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/28\/capsicum-launches-a-beautiful-daily-planner-for-ios\/"},"modified":"2018-12-28T17:30:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:30:03","slug":"capsicum-launches-a-beautiful-daily-planner-for-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfshields.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/28\/capsicum-launches-a-beautiful-daily-planner-for-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"Capsicum launches a beautiful daily planner for iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Calendaring and note-taking apps have never really filled the void left behind when we moved away from our old, paper-based daily planners to digital devices. But a newly launched iOS app called\u00a0Capsicum<\/a> may help to change that. Like real-world daily planners from years ago, Capsicum lets you not only track your events and to-dos, it also offers a place to track other things not tied to a specific date and time \u2013 like your larger, longer-term goals, journal entries, and even your daily habits \u2013 like whether you made it to the gym, or remembered to take your vitamins.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea for the app comes from U.S. software engineer, Ish ShaBazz, who was featured in the 2017 documentary \u201cApp: The Human Story,\u201d and Australian designer Heidi Helen Pilypas. Both love beautiful planners and iOS apps, so around three years ago, they decided to work on a project has now become\u00a0Capsicum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The app\u2019s name refers to a bell pepper, which is why it\u2019s in the logo.<\/p>\n

However, the name was chosen because the Latin root \u201ccapsa\u201d means \u201cbox.\u201d And the app uses individual boxes \u2013 components \u2013 throughout its design for things like the weather, your events, to-dos, and more.<\/p>\n

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There are three main use cases for\u00a0Capsicum, each with their own tab at the bottom of the homescreen. <\/span><\/p>\n

The daily planner section offers a home to your monthly, weekly, and daily to-do lists. <\/span><\/p>\n

This feels like a more natural way to plan things, in some cases \u2013 especially for writing down things that don\u2019t have an exact time, like a reminder to make a doctor appointment or return your library books, for example. But you still need to slot those in around other events, like meetings or scheduled calls. Calendaring apps don\u2019t have this sort of flexibility, which means we today turn to other apps \u2013 like to-do lists, Apple\u2019s Notes or Reminders.<\/span><\/p>\n

Capsicum, on the other hand, lets them all these to-do\u2019s coexist in one place. Plus, you can sync\u00a0Capsicum with Apple\u2019s Calendars so you won\u2019t missed your scheduled events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As you complete your daily to-dos, you can check them off just as you could a list in Apple\u2019s Notes.<\/p>\n

However, if you don\u2019t get them done, they can be moved over to another day.<\/p>\n

Another section of the daily planner lets you jot down freeform notes. This can be used for journaling or just writing down other things you need to remember \u2013 like your thoughts, moods or health concerns, perhaps.<\/p>\n

The app\u2019s center tab allows you to get a better handle on your habits. This is a particularly handy feature for anyone with a list of New Year\u2019s Resolutions, in search of tracking app. Here, you can log when you complete a habit \u2013 like working out, hydrating, reading, etc. \u2013 which you can do with a tap or a Siri Shortcut.<\/p>\n

You can also add notes to your habits and look back at patterns over time to see if you\u2019re meeting your goals.<\/p>\n

The other main tab in the app is \u201cLoose Leaf,\u201d which offers a larger page than the one in the daily planner\u2019s notes section, for writing long-form journal entries or anything else you want to remember. This can be a place for personal writing, or a place to make lists that don\u2019t belong on a particular day \u2013 like your bucket list, travel ideas, redecorating plans, or others that aren\u2019t immediate \u201cto-dos.\u201d<\/p>\n

In time, the team says the Loose Leaf section will also include a sketchpad, too.<\/p>\n

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Capsicum\u00a0<\/span>can be personalized with beautiful covers, decorative tapes and headings to match your style, to make it feel more like your own notebook and not a generic app. And you can create more than one notebook in the app \u2013 in case you want to maintain separate notebooks by year or for work and personal life, for instance.<\/p>\n

The app is well-designed and feels like it fits somewhere in between the simplicity of jotting down an item in Notepad and the structure of adding events in Calendar. That said, it\u2019s still hard to abandon a history of notes and reminders from other apps, which makes it hard to switch. Plus, the search feature is a time travel option where you have to put in a date \u2013 that means you may not want to use it for things you need to pull up by keyword.<\/p>\n

Capsicum<\/a> is a subscription-based app, offered at either $1.99 per month or $19.99 per year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The app provides a 14-day trial, but unlike all other subscription apps, it doesn\u2019t immediately begin charging you when the trial ends. If you decide you want to continue with\u00a0Capsicum, you can choose to subscribe at any time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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