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Ellie Planner

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Velocity3.8

AI-powered daily planner combining tasks and calendar with natural-language task entry and integrations

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Ellie opens its task data to outside agents, eight months after its last changelog.

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◆Current state
Ellie is a solo-built task and calendar planner spanning web, desktop, iPhone and iPad. After an eight-month gap, the catch-up release lands a real Week Calendar on iPad, Pomodoro sessions started from a task and restored across reloads, Quick Capture as a standalone window on a global shortcut, rich-text task notes with Markdown shortcuts, and MCP/API access in beta. Beneath the headline items sits the unglamorous work: recurring tasks, timezones, rollover, and calendar sync behaviour.
◆Where it's heading
The consistent pattern across four years of releases is reach - Outlook and Google calendars, Slack, Notion, Todoist, iOS widgets - all aimed at making Ellie available wherever work originates. MCP applies that instinct to agents rather than apps, and the release frames it exactly that way. The in-app AI assistant from a year ago put a model inside Ellie; MCP inverts the arrangement and lets an agent the user picks hold the task data instead.
◆Prediction
MCP access is explicitly beta and gated behind Power Features, so the open questions are whether it graduates and how it is priced. The entries do not say which clients have been tested against the endpoint.

◆Recent moves

  1. 9d ago

    iPad Week Calendar, Pomodoro, Quick Capture, rich notes, and MCP

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    An eight-month catch-up digest whose headline items are app polish, with the directional one placed last: Ellie now exposes an MCP endpoint, making the planner's structure addressable by outside agents rather than only by the assistant built into it.

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  2. 8mo ago

    🧹 Todoist integration, improved Slack/Notion integrations and more

    A Todoist integration with project, section, label and priority filters, alongside iOS task templates, configurable Slack task defaults and a mobile floating timer. Integration breadth remains the growth axis, and this is the release where changelog generation itself got automated.

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  3. 11mo ago

    Ellie AI, Task templates, "Add task" from calendar events and more ✨

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    The first AI surface inside Ellie, aimed at bulk task manipulation by voice or text. It established the assistant-inside-the-app arrangement that this year's MCP work inverts.

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  4. 1y ago

    Notion integration, Analytics, Rituals, Notifications and a ton more

    Notion integration, analytics tables with CSV export, rituals, timebox notifications and an iOS timer with Dynamic Island support. The first integration release, and the start of the reachable-everywhere pattern that still governs the roadmap.

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  5. 2y ago

    🐹 Outlook Calendar Integration, iOS Widgets, Slack integration and more

    Outlook Calendar with two-way sync, three iOS widget types and a Slack integration for pushing tasks into Ellie. Calendar and chat remain the two places tasks actually originate, and this release covered both.

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  6. 2y ago

    📆 Mac menu bar, improved auto sync and more

    Mac menu bar presence and auto-sync improvements - desktop-native touches that keep the planner reachable without a window open.

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