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Sunsama made the daily plan into a ritual. Pull your tasks in, drag them onto your calendar, shut the day down when it is done. It is a good product.
If you already talk to Claude or Codex all day, you may want the plan to come from them. You say what is on, they place it around your meetings, and you skip the dragging.
That is the job of Context Board’s Day planner. It is one board type in a workspace that also holds dashboards, docs and a pipeline, so we compare it with Sunsama here for the part they share: planning the day. Context Board is ours, so weigh the bias. Prices below were checked on Sunsama’s own site on October 27, 2026.
What Sunsama is built for
Sunsama calls itself a task manager, calendar and daily planner. Its help center walks you through planning the day, and weekly planning centers on objectives you carry forward from last week. Tasks come in from tools like Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Linear, Notion and Todoist, and from Gmail and Slack. It connects Google, Outlook, Apple and CalDAV calendars, and timeboxing a task creates an event on your calendar.
It has apps for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux. It also has AI of its own: an assistant called Sunny that can plan your day and manage tasks, and an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Claude Code.
Pro is $22 a month billed monthly, or $17 a month billed yearly. There is a 14-day trial with no card, and no free plan.
What the Day planner does
The Day planner puts your tasks and your meetings on one timeline, with Today and Week views.
Type into the inbox, “Invoice Acme Friday 2pm 30m”, and the task lands on Friday at 2 PM for 30 minutes. Drag tasks from the inbox onto the day. Paste a calendar’s iCal link, such as Google Calendar’s secret address, and your meetings show up beside them. The board reads the link while it is open and never writes to your calendar. The Google Calendar page shows where to find that link.
Press Plan my day and your agent places the inbox in the free time around the meetings, with a reason for each task. Tasks you placed yourself stay put unless you ask. End the day moves whatever is left to tomorrow.
Your own agent does the planning
The chat on the board runs on your own Claude Code or Codex plan, or on your own API key. So Plan my day does not add an AI subscription.
Any app that speaks MCP can use the planner too. From Claude Code, Codex or Cursor you can say “add a task for tomorrow morning” or “plan tomorrow on my planner”. Sunsama has its own assistant and its own MCP server, so this is not a case of one tool having AI and the other not. The difference is whose AI it is. Here it is the agent you already use for the rest of your work, and the planner sits in the same workspace as the board that shows your revenue and your agents’ sessions. The board types page lists what else the plan holds.
What it costs
Sunsama Pro is $22 a month, or $17 a month billed yearly. That is $204 a year at the yearly rate.
Context Board is free for 3 days, then $12 a month, which is $144 a year. One plan covers every board type, widget and connection, so the planner is not a separate line on your card.
Where Sunsama still fits
Pick Sunsama if you want the ritual spelled out. It guides the morning plan, runs weekly planning around objectives, pulls tasks from the tools your team already uses, and writes timeboxed tasks back to your calendar. It has native apps.
The Day planner is lighter. It is a web app with a phone view, and your tasks live on the board. If you are weighing more daily planners, Sunsama alternatives compares nine of them, and the AI productivity tools roundup covers the wider stack.
Try it with tomorrow’s tasks
Make a Day planner, paste your calendar link, type tomorrow’s tasks into the inbox, and press Plan my day. If the plan is one you would have made yourself, you have saved the dragging.
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