Everything feels equally urgent until you say it out loud. Brain-dump your morning, commit to 2–3 things, and wrap up at night with what actually landed. No dashboard. No guilt.
“Finished the deck right after standup. Sent the budget reply too. Just lunch before my two o'clock now.”
Nice - marking both done. Lunch before your call is still open.
Scroll to walk through a full day. The app panel updates at each step: morning dump, goals locked, check-in, wrap-up.
What's on today? Dump it all, I'll help you pick what matters.
“Q2 brief before standup, reply to Sarah, dentist this week, not today…”
Sunrise lives in your menu bar or system tray. When morning hits, hold the mic and say everything: work, errands, the thing you've been avoiding. Talk or type. No setup, no categories.
Step 1 of 5
“Q2 brief before standup, reply to Sarah, lunch before my 2pm call…”
Locked in. Brief first, then Sarah. Lunch before your 2pm call.
Sunrise distills your dump into 2–3 goals, not eight. It defers the rest without shame. When a task is really several steps, it breaks it into a checklist. You build nothing.
Step 2 of 5
Breaking Sarah's email into steps.
Still going? Add a sub-note, a detail, or a correction mid-stream. "Include graphs in Sarah's email." Sunrise folds it into the parent goal. No re-explaining.
Step 3 of 5
Nice - kitchen's prepped. Marking that done.
Across the day Sunrise pulls you back to what matters: a nudge when you need one, never a guilt trip. Tick goals off as you go. Midday and afternoon are optional; start with morning + wrap-up.
Step 4 of 5
Friday, 13 June
A clean sweep. Now rest up, you earned it.
Same chime at wrap-up. Sunrise counts what actually landed and turns it into a shareable recap card, the streak you'll want to protect tomorrow.
Step 5 of 5
Exactly what you'll see in the app: your brain dump up top, a short coach reply, then 2–3 goals with checkboxes. Everything else waits.
Everything felt equally urgent.
“Standup at ten and I still need the deck. Budget email since Monday. Dentist this week. Inbox is a mess. Call at two.”
Locked in. Standup at ten is the anchor. Deck first, then the budget email. Lunch before your two o'clock.
Deck done. Budget email sent. Lunch before the call.
Three deadlines, one brain.
“Client A wants revisions by EOD. Client B invoice overdue. New proposal feels huge. Gym expires Friday. Grocery shop. Dinner Saturday.”
Locked in. Client A is due today. Send the invoice, then block ninety minutes for the proposal outline.
Revisions out. Invoice sent. Proposal has a rough outline.
Opened the laptop with zero clarity.
“Build to a tester waiting. PR comment I'm avoiding. Refactor rabbit hole. Prod might be broken. Lunch at one. Resume tonight, not now.”
Locked in. Build and PR comment are the morning. Quick prod check. Refactor and Slack wait.
Build shipped. PR unblocked. Prod looks fine.
Work, uni, and life all at once.
“Three work emails. Assessment extension due. Behind on lectures. Laundry tomorrow. Exam tickets in the group chat. Run at eight.”
Locked in. Emails first, then start the extension. One revision block if you have time before tonight.
Two of three emails sent. Extension started. Revision block tomorrow.
A few spoken seconds each. Sunrise does the remembering.
Morning ☀️ You carried “review the PR” from yesterday, still needs to happen today?
Say your must-dos out loud. They become the day’s goals; yesterday’s leftovers come up first.
Halfway ☀️ The landing page shipped, nice. The PR review is the one still open. Still the plan?
Short pulses through the day, a nudge back to what matters, never a guilt trip.
2 of 3 landed, the page and the accountant. The PR rolls to tomorrow. Solid Tuesday.
The day ends with the truth: what landed, what rolls, and a streak that only counts finished days.
Daily goals are easy to grind through and forget why. Tell Sunrise the 1–3 things you're actually building toward over weeks or months, your horizons, and it remembers. When a morning goal connects to one, Sunrise links them so the why is always there.
Your horizons
What you're building toward over weeks or months, not today's list.3/3
Persist across every day. Just tell Sunrise what you're building toward. It remembers, and brings it into the morning conversation.
Linked in today's goals
Locked in. Beta deploy first, then writing, then the run.
Goals tied to a horizon carry a quiet "Toward…" hint. The bigger picture, without needing a separate planning tool.
Every check-in runs on Sundial, the context engine behind Sunrise. It reads where your day actually stands (calendar, GitHub, app usage, your week's patterns) so the coach never talks in generalities. Voice and goals work out of the box; flip on a source in Settings and it feeds in quietly as a small chip above your goals.
During a check-in
Clear run until standup. Brief is still open, worth a push before 2pm?
Meetings, commits, and where your time went. Only shows when enabled. Midday can also glance at your screen once, so the check-in matches what you're actually on.
In Settings
Integrations
Turn on only what fits.
One toggle per source. GitHub asks for a token once; app usage stays on your machine. Focus hooks into a macOS Shortcut if you want Do Not Disturb while you work a goal.
Private by design. Voice and reasoning run on secure infrastructure. App usage never leaves your Mac. Nothing sensitive is stored in plain sight on the marketing site, or in the app without your say-so.
Desktop · waitlist openThis one asks less: a short conversation in the morning, a wrap-up that keeps score. One email when builds are ready.
One email when it's ready. No spam.