Time-blocking apps next to a cross-app assistant.

Planning with Jarvis (getjarvis.eu), a desktop AI assistant, starts from the work already in your apps. Motion and Sunsama are purpose-built daily planners, while Jarvis reads Gmail, Google Calendar, Linear, Todoist, Notion, and Slack from the floating bar and drafts a day around what is actually due. Persistent memory carries your priorities from one day to the next. Jarvis is a screen-aware desktop assistant for macOS, Windows, and Linux: press Cmd+/ and it can scan your Gmail, Google Calendar, Linear, Todoist, Asana, and Notion, then draft a plan or create tasks, routing across frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. Motion auto-schedules tasks onto your calendar with AI; Sunsama is a calm, guided daily-planning ritual. Jarvis is not a dedicated planner — it has no auto-scheduling engine or planning canvas of its own — so for time-blocking and a structured daily method, the specialists win. At $16/month, Jarvis assembles context across apps that a single planner cannot see.

Motion's core feature is an AI scheduler that fits your tasks into open calendar slots automatically and reshuffles when things change. Sunsama is a deliberate daily ritual: each morning you pull tasks in, plan your day, and reflect. Both are designed around the planning act itself, with their own interfaces. Jarvis has no auto-scheduler and no planning canvas. Its strength is gathering the raw material: it can read your Calendar, Gmail, Linear, Todoist, and Notion in one pass and propose what matters. If you want a rigorous time-blocking engine or a guided planning ritual, the specialists are built for exactly that.

Jarvis is useful at the messy front of planning — turning scattered inputs into a draft. Press Cmd+/ and ask it to look across your email, calendar, and task apps and suggest today's priorities, then create the tasks in Todoist or Asana and the events in Google Calendar. Because it connects to 30+ apps and keeps persistent memory of your projects, it sees context Motion and Sunsama do not, like the email thread that just created an urgent task. It routes across frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google for the reasoning. It assists the thinking; it does not own the schedule.

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