Coral An almanac for Mac & iPhone  ·  Volume 1.0

Your notes, tasks and days, in one calm place.

Notes, tasks, projects and habits, kept around the one page that matters most: today. For Mac and iPhone. Free to use.

Small actions. Compound change.

Coming soon to the App Store Free · Coral Pro from $6.99 a month
Coral on the Mac, open on the page for Thursday, October 22: seven habits as chips, a line written for the day, five tasks with their times and projects, a picture of four paint samples, and the day’s hours down the right, with lunch and a pottery class among the tasks.
Today. The day’s page, Thursday the twenty-second. Seven habits, a line for the day, five tasks with their times, the paint samples for a wall, and the hours still free.

Contents

  1. A space to think
  2. The depth under the calm
  3. In colour
  4. Kept to yourself
  5. Price
About these picturesEvery picture is Coral itself, on a Mac and an iPhone, filled with an invented October.
A space to think

A space to think

Every day has its own page, and Coral opens on it. Write, capture what occurs to you, tick what’s done. The day keeps a log of what actually happened, and the week, the month, the quarter and the year each have a page of their own beside it.

Notes hold the work itself: headings, lists, checklists, tables, code, callouts, pictures and links. Any line can become a task without leaving the page, and folders, properties and full-text search keep it all findable.

Oct 22 · 7:30Stretch, and coffee on the step. Done, and struck through.
Oct 22 · 9:00Lookbook, spreads four to six, until eleven. Then call Lumen & Oak about the proofs.
Today on iPhone, Thursday October 22: the plan, do and review line, habits as chips, the day’s line about the brackets, and five tasks with times, projects and priorities.
On iPhone. The same day, in your pocket.
A note on iPhone titled Studio layout plan, filed under the Studio Cleanup project, with a paragraph about the shelf wall and a pencil sketch of the shelves.
A note. A plan, with its sketch.
The same note on the Mac, beside the Notes list: Studio layout plan, its area and project shown as properties, a paragraph, the sketch of the shelf wall, and a few lines on the shelves to come.
On the Mac. The same note at the desk. Its area and project sit on it as properties, and the sketch sits in the text.
The depth under the calm

The depth under the calm

Quiet on the surface, a great deal underneath: tasks with dates, deadlines and repeat rules, projects in phases, a planner for the hours, habits counted in amounts, saved views over everything, a board you arrange, and a map of how it all fits.

For the newly arrivedOn the Mac, Coral imports from Todoist, OmniFocus and Things, with a preview first and Undo after.

Of tasks

Dates, deadlines, repeat rules, priorities and tags are simple properties on each task. Deleted something by mistake? Undo it, or find it in Recently Deleted.

Tasks on the Mac in a saved view called Due this week: six tasks grouped under Studio Cleanup, Autumn Lookbook, 10K Training and no project, each with its due day.
Tasks. Due this week, grouped by project.
The same view of tasks due this week on iPhone, shown as a list.
On iPhone. The same, in the hand.

Of projects

Group tasks into projects, with phases and a timeline, and projects into the areas of your life.

The Studio Cleanup project on the Mac: active, six of seventeen tasks done, in the Home area, day 18 of 54 on its progress bar, the next step Order shelf brackets, and its page with an outcome, a task and notes.
A project. Studio Cleanup, day eighteen of fifty-four. Six of seventeen done, and the next step pinned above the work.
The project’s timeline on iPhone, week by week: tasks done in week 43, today marked in red, and the next phase, Shelving and storage.
Its timeline. Laid along the weeks.

Of the hours

Your calendar sits beside your tasks, and Reminders come in too. With Coral Pro, the Planner lays the day out: drag a task onto the hour it will get done.

The Planner on the Mac in dark mode, Thursday October 22: tasks waiting to be planned on the left, an all-day event, and the day’s hours with planned tasks, lunch with Priya and a pottery class.
The Planner. The Planner, by night. What’s still to plan waits on the left.
The Planner’s day on iPhone in dark mode, with the week strip above and the day’s planned tasks and events.
On iPhone. The same day, pocket-sized.

Of habits

Daily, weekly or a few times a week, with streaks and history, or counted in amounts. On iPhone, a habit can count steps or other Apple Health readings toward its goal.

The Habits page on the Mac for the week of October 19: today’s seven habits with their streaks, an overview of completion and streaks, every habit across the week, and insights naming the most consistent habit and the one that needs attention.
Habits. Habits by the week, with streaks, history, and the one that needs attention.
Habits on iPhone: Read 20 pages at 12 of 20, Drink water at 5 of 8 glasses, each with a +1 button, among habits already kept today.
Amounts. Counted in amounts: twelve pages of twenty, and +1 for the next.

Of views and boards

Coves are saved views over everything in Coral, each a table, cards or a list. The Overview is a board of cards you arrange yourself.

Coves on the Mac: saved views of active projects, tasks waiting on others, habit streaks, goals in progress, areas, and files and media, each shown as a card.
Coves. Coves. The built-in ones are free; making your own is part of Coral Pro.
The Overview on the Mac: cards for the day’s hours, three top priorities, habits two of seven done, a daily review with four questions, and a quotation drifted back from the reading notes.
The Overview. The Overview: the day, three priorities, the habits, a daily review, and something you once wrote, drifted back.
The Overview on iPhone, with the day’s hours as a band, top priorities and habits.
On iPhone. The board, folded to fit.

Of capture

On the Mac, press Control-Option-Space from any app. Save pages from Safari, share into Coral from other apps, and keep tasks and habits on your Home Screen.

Quick Capture open over Today on the Mac, a task typed as Call the framer 3pm and read back as Today at 3:00 PM, ready to place in Today, Tomorrow or the Inbox.
Quick Capture. Type a time, and the task is placed on your day.
Quick Capture on iPhone with the keyboard up, the task Call the framer about the prints 3pm read back as Today at 3:00 PM.
On iPhone. And on the phone.
The Tasks widget showing today’s tasks: Call the bank, Renew passport photos checked off, and Draft the brief.
Widgets. The Tasks widget.

Check a task off right on the Home Screen. Today, Habits, Projects and Areas have widgets too, and a Control Center control opens Coral ready to capture.

Of the reef

With Coral Pro, the Reef maps how it fits: the areas of a life, the goals in each, and the projects, habits and tasks that serve them.

The Reef on the Mac: Your life at the top, three areas, Health, Home and Work, each with its goal, the projects and habits under it, and its open tasks; a slider along October sits above.
The Reef. The Reef. Three areas, a goal in each, and what serves it.
The Reef on iPhone, the same tree down one spine, starting with Health.
On iPhone. Down one spine.
In colour

In colour

Light or dark, a built-in theme or one of your own, a backdrop behind a note. Coral takes on the colour you give it.

The Themes setting: Release Room, Coral, Paper, Quiet Reef and Sunlit Sand, each shown as a swatch, and a New theme button.
Themes. The built-in themes, and room for one of your own making.
The Planner’s week of October 12 in a light theme: morning walks across the top, a family’s games, classes and dinners through the evenings.
Paper. A family’s week, in Paper.
The same week in a dark theme.
After dark. The same week, by lamplight.
A note titled Focus is a superpower on a rose page over a teal backdrop, with a banner, a paragraph, two tasks for the week and a quotation.
Backdrops. A note set on a backdrop.
The same note in dark mode, the page dark over the same backdrop.
Dark. The same note, after dark.

Themes and backgrounds are part of Coral Pro; light and dark are for everyone.

Kept to yourself

Kept to yourself

Your library lives on your devices, protected by the device’s own encryption. There is no account to make, no analytics, nothing tracked, and no Coral server for anything to be sent to.

With Coral Pro, Mac and iPhone sync through your own private iCloud, and what you write travels end-to-end encrypted.

Of backupsMake an encrypted backup of the whole library, pictures and files included, whenever you like.
Of the weatherOff until you turn it on. The privacy policy says what it, and every other outside service, receives.
Diagram: your Mac and your iPhone each hold the library. With Coral Pro they sync through your own private iCloud, your notes end-to-end encrypted on the way. In the middle, where a Coral server would be, there is nothing. e3a1·9f0c·77b2·d41e·0aa9·5c7e b80d·2e6f·c913·4a57·ee02·6b1d Your Mac. The library lives here. Your iPhone. And here. Your own private iCloud (with Coral Pro) A Coral server there isn’t one end-to-end encrypted on the way
What stays private. Where your words go. The library lives on each device. With Coral Pro it travels between them through your own iCloud, your notes end-to-end encrypted on the way. The box in the middle is empty because there is nothing there.
End-to-end encrypted
Note titles and text, with every task in them; saved views (coves); note properties; the amounts you log for a habit; an area’s weekly intention. The keys are kept in your iCloud Keychain, which only your own devices can unlock.
Sealed before upload
Pictures and files you add to notes, with AES-256-GCM. Their keys and file names travel inside the end-to-end encryption.
iCloud’s standard encryption
The names of projects, areas, folders, habits, goals and Currents, whether you kept a habit on a given day, and a note’s own details, such as its folder and dates. The privacy policy lists them all.
On your devices
The library, protected by the device’s own encryption.
Nowhere else
There is no Coral server, no account, no analytics and no tracking.
Price

Of the price

Coral

Free

  • Today and the weekly, monthly and yearly pages, notes, tasks, projects, areas and habits, on each device
  • The Overview, your calendar and Reminders
  • Widgets, Quick Capture, Safari and the share sheet
  • Built-in coves, and encrypted backups

Coral Pro

$6.99 a month, or $49.99 a year

  • Sync between Mac and iPhone, your notes end-to-end encrypted
  • The Planner and timeboxing
  • Goals and the Reef
  • Your own custom coves
  • Themes and backgrounds

New subscribers try Coral Pro free for 14 days. Prices in US dollars; they vary by country.

About this page

Set in New York and SF Pro, the two faces Coral uses for its own pages. The pictures are taken from Coral 1.0, filled with an invented October; the privacy drawing is drawn by hand.

Coral is made with ❤️ by Mark Salam. Questions and ideas go to support@getcoralapp.com, where the person who built it reads them.

Coming soon to the App Store