Sonto: The Complete Guide — Plan Your Year, Quarter, Week and Day

A complete, start-to-finish walkthrough of Sonto — from an empty app to a planned year, quarter, week and day. If you have just downloaded Sonto, or you are deciding whether it is for you, this is the one to watch. After ten years of leading teams and coaching people, I kept seeing the same pattern, in others and in myself: no shortage of motivation to set an ambitious goal, and real difficulty following through on it quarter after quarter. Sonto is the method I built to close that gap. The idea is to zoom out before you zoom in. Plan the year and the quarter, so that what you do today connects to something that matters. Urgent things will still come up — that is life — but the long-term goals keep getting woven back into your everyday actions. What this video covers: • Connecting your calendar, so your tasks and your time sit side by side • Planning your year — an intention, groups for the different parts of your life, and a goal in each • Planning your quarter — turning ambiguous yearly goals into something you can finish in ninety days • The day, the week and the inbox, and how they fit together • Planning reminders — the nudges that connect your long-term plan to this week • Weekly planning in full — reviewing the week that just ended, reflecting on it, carrying tasks forward, pulling work from your quarterly plan, then scheduling it onto real days • Daily planning — deciding what today actually looks like • Projects, for anything bigger than a single task • Natural language input, priority tasks, tags and filtering • Areas, for the persistent parts of your life • Sonto with AI — the built-in MCP server, the command-line tool, and the one-click connector for Claude, reading your tasks and writing back to them On the AI part: Sonto can do more than answer questions about your plan. In the video I ask Claude to research hotels in Porto and write its findings into the task notes, and it does. You can use the same connection to build whole plans from context you already have — your notes, your email, a second brain. I use it for a daily briefing, a weekly review, and a full quarterly review that becomes the foundation for the next quarter's planning. Chapters: 00:00 Why goals stall 00:28 Connect your calendar 00:40 Zoom out, then zoom in 01:16 Plan your year: intention, groups and goals 03:07 Plan your quarter: ninety-day milestones 05:31 A tour: the day, the week and the inbox 07:12 Planning reminders — what sets Sonto apart 07:40 Plan your week: review and reflect 08:32 Build the week from your quarterly plan 09:40 Schedule the week on your calendar 10:45 Plan your day 11:58 Everyday tasks and projects 13:18 Natural language, priorities and tags 14:19 Areas 14:40 Sonto with AI: MCP, the CLI and Claude 16:23 Free to try Sonto runs natively on Mac, iPad and iPhone. It is free to try, and upgrading is a single one-time purchase that covers all three — no subscription, and no paying per device. Sonto is free to try on the App Store: https://sonto.app The method behind it: https://sonto.app/method Help centre: https://help.sonto.app More on the channel: • Sonto in 5 Minutes — the short version of this tour:    • Sonto in 5 Minutes: Structure Without the ...   • Why Goals Fail — and It Isn't Motivation:    • Why Goals Fail — and It Isn't Motivation   Thanks for watching. — Bastiaan