Gideon
Gideon is an all-in-one workspace I’m designing: calendar, notes, moodboards, classes and a bullet journal in one calm place.
It’s a working prototype, built to feel less like a productivity tool and more like a well-designed notebook you can make your own.
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The problem
My life was split across Notion, Pinterest, Milanote, Google Calendar, Canvas and a notes app, and none of them talked to each other. Every tool did one thing well, but keeping up with all of them became its own job.
Most all-in-one apps fix that by piling on features until they feel like a cockpit. I wanted the opposite: one place that holds everything, stays calm, and looks like something a designer would actually want to open every morning.
02
Start with you
Onboarding asks three things: your name, what you'll use it for, and how you want it to look. Picking School, Work, My business, Creative work, Home & life or Bullet journal adds matching sections to the sidebar, so nobody starts from a blank page.
The look picker changes the whole app live behind the screen, so the first choice you make already feels like yours.
03
One calm home base
Today pulls everything into one view: a single focus for the day, your schedule, a mini calendar, to-dos and what's due soon. Every block is a widget you can drag, resize or hide.
Behind it sit the core spaces: a calendar with week, month and quarter views, Pinterest-style boards for collecting images and notes, a notes editor with a focus timer, and a class tracker that shows progress and what's next.
04
Templates for real life
Instead of a blank database, the plus button opens a catalog of sets: Bullet journal, Study, Work, Small business, Creative project and Job search, built from more than 40 templates.
I wanted it useful beyond students, so the same app can run a weekly spread, a mood-in-pixels year, a habit tracker or a job application pipeline. The bullet journal pieces borrow from paper on purpose, because that's how a lot of people already plan.
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Make it yours
This is the part I care about most. Gideon has 20 looks pulled from graphic design history and print: Ledger's stacked color cards and red suns, Bauhaus shapes, Agitprop red ink, a dark Nocturne, a pure blue Primary with fine halftone.
Each look changes color, type, texture and corners together, and the Appearance panel lets you fine-tune all of it. Productivity tools don't have to look like spreadsheets.
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In your pocket
On a phone the sidebar becomes a bottom tab bar, the calendar collapses into dots, and a floating button keeps adding things one tap away.
