Getting started
PlanCub turns goals into scheduled work. You capture tasks fast, decide what matters, put them on your calendar and then focus on them.
Sign in
Open app.plancub.com and choose Log in with Google. Google is the only sign-in method. PlanCub uses it for your name, email and photo. It does not read your Gmail, Drive or calendar.
After you sign in, you land on Dashboard. If you open app.plancub.com while signed out, you go straight to the login screen. Log in with Google there.
The screens
The rail on the left lists the screens, top to bottom:
- Dashboard: your streak, completed tasks and badges.
- Goals: a map from your longest goal down to this month.
- Inbox: every new task lands here.
- Eisenhower: the same tasks sorted by importance and urgency.
- Plan: the timeline of stages for a goal.
- Kanban: the board of tasks for a goal.
- Calendar: your week or month.
Below them are the Focus timer, the Light/Dark switch, Settings, the ? help button and your account menu. Hover over any icon to see its shortcut.
The daily loop
- Capture: open Inbox, press N and type the task. Do not organise yet.
- Prioritise: mark the task Important, Urgent or both. Eisenhower shows the result.
- Schedule: press @ on a task, or drag it onto your week in Calendar.
- Focus: start a Pomodoro on the task and finish it.
Use Goals, Plan and Kanban when the work is bigger than one task. A goal gets its own Kanban board and Plan timeline.
Go anywhere with G
Press G, then a letter within 2.5 seconds. Press Esc to cancel. It does not work while you type in a field or while a dialog is open.
- G D
- Dashboard
- G G
- Goals
- G I
- Inbox
- G E
- Eisenhower
- G P
- Plan
- G K
- Kanban
- G C
- Calendar
- G F
- Focus timer
- G ,
- Settings (press again to close)
You can change any of these letters in Settings, Shortcuts.
Help inside the app
Press ? or choose the ? button at the bottom of the rail. A small card from Cub explains the screen you are on and links back to this Help Center. Choose Replay the tour with Cub in that card to walk through Inbox, Eisenhower, Goals, Plan, Kanban, Calendar and Dashboard again.
A new account starts with a short welcome. You write your first tasks, they go into the Inbox, and you can name a first goal or skip it.
Free and Pro
Personal is free forever: up to 30 active goals, 50 Inbox items and 3 Kanban boards. Pro removes those limits and adds more focus sounds, backgrounds and fonts. See Plans and billing for details.