Proposal Bakkerij Jansen, due Friday
Recognise
Week 4426 to 30 October70 percent full, the rest is breathing room
Mon 26
Proposal Hotel Zeezicht
Team kick-off
Ads audit Milius BV
Landing page Bakkerij
Emails and invoices
Tue 27
Proposal Bakkerij Jansen
SEO plan Studio Noord
Intro meeting Studio Noord, Utrecht
Small tasks
Wed 28
VAT return Q3
Homepage design Hotel Zeezicht
Update Milius BV campaign
Emails and invoices
Thu 29
Proposal Bakkerij Jansen
Keywords Studio Noord
Call with Milius BV
Homepage design Hotel Zeezicht
Fri 30
Milius BV report
Send invoices
Room for overruns
Wrap up the week
Several clients? diddle plans your week.
The planner for freelancers and small agencies. Type or say what needs doing. diddle puts it in your week around your appointments, per client, and moves along when your day changes.
Free during the beta, no credit card.
A planner for client work
diddle is a planner for people who work for clients. You add your tasks, clients and appointments. diddle estimates how long things take, picks the best time and adjusts when your day goes differently.
Who it's for. Freelancers and small agencies in marketing, SEO, Google Ads, web design and copywriting. You work for several clients at once, some with fixed monthly hours, others per project, with your own admin running alongside.
What it does. It spreads your tasks over the week, ordered by deadline and importance. Deep work goes in the morning, small tasks are bundled at the end of the day, and it keeps time free around appointments for travel and preparation.
Where it works. In your browser, on your laptop and your phone. Connect Google Calendar and diddle reads your appointments and puts its blocks in a calendar of its own. Your main calendar never changes. The app itself is in Dutch for now.
How to start. Sign in with Google or with a link in your email. You first get a sample week so you can see how it works. Then you clear it and add your own clients and tasks.
- Ads audit Milius BV2 hours, Mon 9:00
- Proposal Bakkerij Jansen3 hours, Tue 8:30
- VAT return Q31 hour, Wed 9:30
- Homepage design Hotel Zeezicht4 hours, over two days
- SEO plan Studio Noord1.5 hours, Tue 11:00
- Send invoices30 min, Fri 10:30
- Milius BV report1.5 hours, Fri 8:30
- Newsletter Bakkerij Jansen2 hours, Thu 13:00
- Team kick-offMon 10:00, fixed
- Email the accountant15 min, end of the day
- Process Hotel Zeezicht feedback1 hour, after the client replies
- Call with Milius BVThu 11:00, with preparation
- Keywords Studio Noord1 hour, calm work
- Wrap up the weekFri 16:30
- Update Milius BV campaign2 hours, Wed 13:00
- Intro meeting Studio NoordTue 13:30, with travel time
Sound familiar?
- It's all in your head.Which client wants what, which quote is still open, which invoice still has to go out. Until you forget one.
- Your to-do list has no clock.Twenty tasks, but how many actually fit in this week? You find out on Thursday.
- Hours run over unnoticed.A 12-hour retainer is used up before you know it. Or a client gets too little attention.
diddle takes that puzzle off your hands.
What it gets you
You know every morning what comes first.
Your day is ready: what's up now, what comes next and why. No more picking from a long list yourself.
Deadlines met without evening work.
Work lands in your week on time for the deadline, with thirty percent slack, so overruns don't eat your evening.
A grip on client hours.
Per client you see what has been used and scheduled, before a retainer runs over rather than after.
Nothing lost after a call.
Say your points after a meeting. Tasks get a slot straight away, the rest becomes a note on the client.
From sentence to block
First you type it, just as a sentence.
Then diddle estimates how long it takes.
Next it gets a spot in your week.
And if something runs over, the rest moves along.
- Client
- Bakkerij Jansen
- Due
- Fri 30 Oct, fixed
- Duration
- 3 hours, estimated
- Type
- Deep work
- Tue 27 Oct8:30 to 10:30
- Thu 29 Oct8:30 to 9:30
In the morning, because it's deep work. Done two days before the deadline.
Done on Thursday
- Estimated
- 3 hours
- Worked
- 2 h 45
The rest of your week moved by fifteen minutes. diddle will estimate the next proposal shorter.
What makes diddle different
- Built for client work. Monthly hours, project budgets and recurring reports are built in. Ordinary planners only know tasks.
- Made for the Dutch work week. With VAT returns, Dutch public holidays and a week that works the way it does there.
- Talk after a call. Your points become tasks with a slot in your week. The rest becomes a note on the client.
- Your calendar stays yours. diddle reads your Google Calendar and only writes to a calendar of its own. Your main calendar never changes.
What it looks like
Real screens from the app, with sample clients. The app itself is in Dutch for now.
What else is in it
Clients and their hours
For each client you see how many hours were used and planned this month, next to the monthly hours or the project budget.
| Client | Used | Planned |
|---|---|---|
| Milius BV | 9.5 of 12 hours | |
| Bakkerij Jansen | 4 of 6 hours | |
| Hotel Zeezicht | 31 of 40 hours | |
| Studio Noord | 3 of 20 hours |
Hotel Zeezicht: budget used up if everything goes to plan.
Recurring work and VAT
Invoices, reports and the Dutch VAT return come back by themselves, in time for the deadline. Dutch public holidays are skipped.
- VAT return Q3 2026due Fri 31 Octplanned Wed 28 Oct, 9:30
- Send invoicesevery last working dayplanned Fri 30 Oct, 10:30
- Monthly report Milius BVfirst Mondaycomes Mon 2 Nov
- Christmas Day and Boxing DayFri 25 and Sat 26 Decoff, nothing gets planned
Focus advice
Say how you're doing. Tired, and diddle swaps heavy and light work. In the flow, and it moves a small task out of the way.
How's it going?
Tired? Swap heavy and light
Do the emails and invoices first, 45 minutes. The ads audit for Milius BV moves to 11:15, when you're sharp again.
Help me choose
Not sure where to start? You get three options side by side. Pick one and begin; the rest moves along.
From proposal to plan
Upload a signed proposal. diddle reads the parts and hours, asks only what's missing and spreads the project over your weeks.
Strategy and sitemap6 hours
Homepage design16 hours
Build in WordPress24 hours
Deliver and invoice30 min
With 12 hours a week, done on 11 December, a week before delivery.
Work and private life
Add sport and other fixed things. They get a spot first, and every week you see whether work and private life are in balance.
82balance this week
- Work36 hours
- Sport3 times
- Free evenings4 of 5
Running Tue, Thu and Sat at 7:00. Wednesday rest.
Try it with this week
Add a task or change how you like to work. The week is rearranged straight away, with the same rules as in the app.
Seen enough? Start your own week in the app.
Who diddle is for
For anyone who works for several clients and wants to keep an eye on their own week.
Freelancers
You are your own planner, account manager and bookkeeper. diddle tracks client hours and deadlines so you can get on with the work.
Small agencies
Retainers with fixed hours, projects from proposals and meetings that run over. diddle shows what really fits this week.
Online marketers
Reports, campaign checks and audits that come back every week or month. diddle puts them in your week on time.
Made by a freelancer
diddle started as the personal planner of an online marketer with six clients at once: retainers, campaigns, monthly reports and the quarterly VAT return. No planner took that into account, so this one was built. Every feature runs in that real week for a while before it ships.
Free during the beta
You use everything without paying. After that a free plan stays, and Pro costs €9 a month.
Next to your calendar, or instead of it?
How we read these tools in October 2026, based on their own websites and recent reviews. If something is no longer right, let us know.
Your pace, not your inbox's
A week has a rhythm: five days, mornings for deep work, afternoons for meetings, Friday to wrap up. diddle keeps that rhythm, even when something comes up.
- Blocks of two hours at most. A big task is cut into pieces and spread over the days.
- Fifteen minutes after every meeting. To round it off before the next one starts.
- Thirty percent breathing room. The week is filled to seventy percent. The rest is for whatever comes up.
What people ask
What does diddle cost? diddle is free during the beta. After that there will be a monthly subscription. If you start now, you'll hear the price well in advance and can always take your data with you.
Does diddle touch my Google Calendar? No. diddle only reads your appointments. It puts its own blocks in a separate calendar, Planning, which you can switch on and off. Your main calendar never changes.
How does it know how long things take? From the type of task and your own completed tasks: if your proposals keep taking less time than estimated, diddle estimates the next one shorter. If you give a duration yourself, that one counts.
What if my day goes differently? Mark a block as done when it's finished, or say it's running over. diddle replans the rest of your week, and fixed deadlines come first.
Does diddle use AI? To recognise a task in a sentence and to read a proposal. The planning itself follows fixed rules you can read for every block: why it's there and what was moved for it.
Where is my data stored? In a database in Frankfurt, inside the EU. You can export everything as one file and delete your account with all its data yourself.
Does it work for a whole team? For now diddle is for one person with their own clients. Planning as a team, with shared clients and tasks, is on the list.
Does it work on my phone? Yes, in the browser. You see your day, mark blocks as done and quickly add a task.
Plan your first week
You start with a sample week. Sign in with Google or with a link in your email, and you pay nothing during the beta. The app itself is in Dutch for now.
- Sign in with Google or a link in your email
- Look around in a sample week with four clients
- Clear it and add your own clients and tasks