Productivity tools with a point of view
We design planners and systems for e-ink tablets, and every one of them is built around a specific argument about how work actually gets done. A blank grid will let you write anything. That's the problem with it.
Built for Kindle Scribe, Scribe Colorsoft, reMarkable 2 and Paper Pro.
The point of view
These aren't features of one product. They're the rules we design everything against, and they're the reason our pages look the way they do.
Every tool we make has a ceiling built into it — a number of tasks, a number of days, a number of things you're allowed to call important. A list you can't finish isn't a plan. It's a record of good intentions.
Software rolls unfinished work into tomorrow silently, forever. Ours makes you copy it across by hand and decide: do it, file it, or drop it. It takes ten seconds, and it changes what you're willing to agree to.
We'd rather make six small tools that each do one thing with conviction than one enormous planner that hedges. If a page doesn't have a reason to exist, it doesn't ship.
Ruled at weights that survive 16-level e-ink, spaced for real handwriting, and cut to the exact proportions of the screen. Not a desktop template exported to PDF and hoped for the best.
The line so far
Available now
The argument: nine things a day is the ceiling — one big, three medium, five small.
An 18-month task planner, July 2026 to December 2027. 1,302 pages, 11,383 working links, four device editions in every purchase.
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Coming soon
The argument: a deadline you can see is a deadline you plan against.
A planner that runs backwards. 100 days to the thing that matters, one move a day, and a progress bar on every page that tells you the truth.
In the worksWhat's next
FeintRule isn't a planner shop that happens to have a planner in it. Each new tool takes one thing the calendar refuses to handle and argues with it. We're working on three at the moment.
We don't announce dates. Favorite the shop on Etsy and releases turn up there first.
Follow the shop →Planning at the level where work actually moves — bigger than a day, small enough to still be true on Friday.
A single objective, a fixed horizon, and nothing else allowed on the page.
Somewhere for things to live before they've earned a day of your attention.
The standard
Whatever we make ships in four editions — one per panel, built to that screen's exact proportions so it fills the display edge to edge. The color and black-and-white editions are designed separately, not desaturated. All of them are fully hyperlinked, and all of them are in the price.
About
We bought e-ink tablets expecting them to replace the notebooks on our desks, then went looking for something to put on them. Everything we found was a calendar — hourly columns from 8am to 6pm and, if we were lucky, four lines for a to-do list down the side.
Which was backwards. Our calendars already knew about the meetings. What they couldn't tell us was which of the forty things on the list actually mattered today. So we built that instead — and then kept going, because it turns out the calendar refuses to handle quite a lot of things.
A feint rule is the faint ruling printed on writing paper: the line you never look at, that keeps everything else straight. That's the job.
The Daily Nine is out now — eighteen months, four device editions, instant download. Everything is sold through our Etsy shop, so checkout, delivery and support all happen where you'd expect.
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