Features

A whole day, held lightly.

Sempa is built around four calm rituals — plan, focus, reflect, connect — and a hundred small, well-made pieces that make them feel effortless. Here's what's inside.

Plan

Start with intention, not a list.

Plan Day is a guided morning ritual: write your intention, see what carried over from yesterday, and pull tasks from your backlog into today.

The Week board is a Kanban across seven days — drag tasks between days and statuses, and set the handful of Weekly Objectives that actually matter.

  • Daily intention + carry-over from yesterday
  • Drag tasks across days and backlog → planned → in progress → done
  • A single Backlog as your inbox of ideas
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Today4 of 6
Draft the launch note
writing~45m
Clear the inbox
Focus

Protect the work that matters.

Give a task a scheduled start and end and it appears as a time-block beside your calendar. Open it in Focus mode to work distraction-free with a built-in Pomodoro.

Completed sessions are logged per task, so you can see time actually spent against your estimate — gentle feedback, not surveillance.

  • Time-boxing onto the Schedule panel
  • Pomodoro with per-task session history
  • A soft “roughly at” hint when you don't want a hard block
Focus · 25 min
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Deep work · launch note
14:00 – 15:00 · time-block
Reflect

Close the day cleanly.

The Shutdown ritual walks you through ticking off what's done, rescheduling what isn't, and recording a win. The Weekly review captures wins, challenges, and your next focus.

It all collects in the Journal — a quiet timeline of intentions and reflections you can search and revisit.

  • Guided end-of-day shutdown with reschedule
  • Weekly review: wins · challenges · next focus
  • Optional contextual reflections inline on day & week screens
Reflection · Today
“Calmer when I planned the morning before opening email.”
✓ Win logged
Connect

Your email and calendar, quietly pulled in.

Star a Gmail or Fastmail message and it becomes a task. See Google, Fastmail, CalDAV and ICS calendar events beside your plan. Sync assigned Jira issues — marking one done closes the ticket.

Messy subject lines are tidied into clean task titles by a local AI model running on your own server — no email leaves your infrastructure and no API key is needed.

Per-task reminders fire by Web Push, native Android, or a webhook (ntfy, Gotify), with ten calm alert tones. Everything optional, configured after login.

  • Email → tasks (Gmail, Fastmail, forwarding inbox)
  • On-device AI title cleanup — fully local, no third party
  • Calendars: Google · Fastmail · CalDAV · ICS feeds
  • Jira two-way sync · recurring task templates
Reply to Sarah
Remind me · 2:00 PM
Mark doneSnooze 1h
Widgets

Your day, a glance away.

Keep today in view without opening the app. A floating desktop widget stays quietly above your work — always on top, a small live list of what's next.

On Android, home-screen widgets come in three sizes and tick tasks off in place — no app launch required.

  • Floating desktop widget — always-on-top, today at a glance
  • Android home-screen — 2×2 progress · 4×2 task list · 4×4 week
  • Tap a task to complete it right from the widget
Today2/4
Review MBR deck
Draft launch notes
Sync with design
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done today
2 remaining
The small pieces

Details you'll feel
more than notice.

Every component is drawn to be calm and legible — and they all re-skin instantly with your chosen theme.

Tasks & sub-tasks

Notes, due dates, time estimates, colour-coded tags, sub-task checklists and file attachments.

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Link previews

Paste a URL into notes and it renders as a tidy chip — title, site and thumbnail — instead of a raw link.

Local-first sync

Work offline; changes queue and reconcile automatically. A quiet indicator tells you where things stand.

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For the keyboard-driven

Move without the mouse.

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See it in your own theme.

Install Sempa on your server, or browse the docs to learn how each piece fits together.